Whats my rights?

taffydave

Basically, i think i've been well and truelly seen off. My wife bought me a 2001 vectra 150 sri the back end of june, As a supprise as i had been serving abroad. It all started when after about two days of running it i herd a chinking noise from the footwell when i went over bumps. The misses said that the bloke at the place i got it from said that it was because it had a double exhaust. I took it back and he found out that one of the brushes had gone on the suspension arm. Got that done and about three weeks later it started missfiring. Changed the plugs to no avail. Took it back and he changed to panel that lays accross the spark plugs. Then i noticed the engine smoking and leaking oil from the rocker valve cover, took it back and he sorted it with some sealent. Now the head gaskets gone so i rung him up and told him, but he said bring it down and he'd have a look at it but it would come with a bill as my 3 month warrenty had run out and he was going stick to his guns and not offer any leaway. So i took it to a diffrent garage and they confirmed it was the head gasket and it would cost £400 ish to sort out, so i bit the bullet and gave them the go ahead. Got a phone call yesterday saying that the had taken the head appart to skim it and it was cracked and had had a temporary repair and that the water lines had been blocked so that it wouldn't loose any water. The bloke at the garage is a mate of a mate and has been good as gold and is going to write an engeneers report and said that even though the warrenty's run out i still had some rights. So what i'm getting at is what rights do i have, and how do i go about it as surely they cant sell you a car and all this goes wrong within 2000 miles of motorway driving at 75 max . Cheers in advance

MikeS

i don't understand why they would temporarily fix it, it would take a few hours to take the head off and inspect it, then to just botch it up and put the had back on would take a few more hours,he must be a right c*nt considering he might well of done that, any normal person would of sourced a 2nd hand head after spending time investigating the problem, it just aint worth botching it up considering how much it would of cost, a new head set costs 60 quid - u can source a 2nd hand head for a few hundred fgs - u looking around 250 - 300 to get a used head with a new head set and for a garage they dont even have to pay for labour

he prob got it in part exchange on the cheap and found it had a problem then botched it up and got rid

for you to sue him you have to prove the car was not road worthy and that he has breached the sales of goods act in terms of accuracy at the time of selling the car

now a head gasket could go any time and you will have trouble proving he carried out the work to botch it up, it gonna cost u 85 quid to take him to a small claims court

my advice would be to admit that you have been had, like well all have at one point in our lives when buying 2nd hand cars and move on

taffydave

Cheers mate. hopefully i'll be able to sort something out with this report but word of mouth will spread about and hopefully f&ck him over on his sales

MikeS

exactly !

Daniel

so unfair m8 but it probs not worth the hassal take to long to sort out in the leagal ways just move on i no its hard i been had too i think its just ppl tryin to make easy money on us ! but there is some good ppl out there so dont take it out on the next persons car you but just be really carefull look for anything wrong or even a day or 2 after buying the car get it looked over so you can find out anything wrong befor ya warrenty runs out maybe ???