I am expecting the answer to be no.
I put a deposit down on a car last week, but afterwards my head was full of alarm bells, the car was steamy, the brake pedal fell through the floor, and the service warning light came on during test drive. The garage owner was very good and explained he would fix the brakes before sale, he said the steam was just condensation due to it being cold and the car not been driven for a while, and that the warning light was the service light.
I got pushed into giving the deposit and then when i came home the alarm bells started ringing. The steam couldn't be normal and I began to worry about the head gasket (posted this on chat last week), I did further research into the warning light which turned out to be ECU warning light (i.e something wrong with the engine).
At this point I thought these would all be sorted out, I went down to show my dad the car I had just bought, but the car was in the garage with the bonnet open giving out so much steam it looked like a steam train, he saw us and looked very shifty.
When he phoned me up to say the MOT and service had been done, I quized him about the warning light he said it was service light, but several machanics tell me differently and a service would not have cured it, and the steam certainly was not normal.
I then went down to my local machanic and he said that this garage owner is well known for it and cant be trusted as we won't want to know as soon as he gets your money. I decided to cut my losses and lose the £100. I told him I had difficulty raising the money. He told me he has to repair a lot of his so called under warranty cars.
Now I could have ask for proof the faults have been fixed and then demanded my money back, but this guy is known to be quite nasty so I chickened out and took the easy way out and told my loan had fell through - he then put the phone down on me.
Is there anything I can now do? Before phoning him to say my loan had fell through I did ask him he fixed the faults and he was just vague "yeah yeah its been done", I was expecting some what more technical like "yeah it just wanted a new MAF sensor".
I just feel a bit foolish about the entire thing I knew the car had defects before I put the deposit down, I just trusted him that it would all be fixed, and I believed him that the steam was normal (it was only when I went back half an hour later it was still steaming and by this time after my deposit was put down I realised the steam certainly was not normal)>
I put a deposit down on a car last week, but afterwards my head was full of alarm bells, the car was steamy, the brake pedal fell through the floor, and the service warning light came on during test drive. The garage owner was very good and explained he would fix the brakes before sale, he said the steam was just condensation due to it being cold and the car not been driven for a while, and that the warning light was the service light.
I got pushed into giving the deposit and then when i came home the alarm bells started ringing. The steam couldn't be normal and I began to worry about the head gasket (posted this on chat last week), I did further research into the warning light which turned out to be ECU warning light (i.e something wrong with the engine).
At this point I thought these would all be sorted out, I went down to show my dad the car I had just bought, but the car was in the garage with the bonnet open giving out so much steam it looked like a steam train, he saw us and looked very shifty.
When he phoned me up to say the MOT and service had been done, I quized him about the warning light he said it was service light, but several machanics tell me differently and a service would not have cured it, and the steam certainly was not normal.
I then went down to my local machanic and he said that this garage owner is well known for it and cant be trusted as we won't want to know as soon as he gets your money. I decided to cut my losses and lose the £100. I told him I had difficulty raising the money. He told me he has to repair a lot of his so called under warranty cars.
Now I could have ask for proof the faults have been fixed and then demanded my money back, but this guy is known to be quite nasty so I chickened out and took the easy way out and told my loan had fell through - he then put the phone down on me.
Is there anything I can now do? Before phoning him to say my loan had fell through I did ask him he fixed the faults and he was just vague "yeah yeah its been done", I was expecting some what more technical like "yeah it just wanted a new MAF sensor".
I just feel a bit foolish about the entire thing I knew the car had defects before I put the deposit down, I just trusted him that it would all be fixed, and I believed him that the steam was normal (it was only when I went back half an hour later it was still steaming and by this time after my deposit was put down I realised the steam certainly was not normal)>
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