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Basically, I arranged to by a colleague from work's dad's car for £500. He was going to MOT it and I was going to tax(runs out this month). MOT expired 22/08/06. It went for it's MOT yesterday and failed, so the deal changed to
a) Pay full price, bloke gets it MOT and I pay for the repairs
b) Pay half price and I sort out repairs or
c) No deal.
I chose option B. The colleage said his dad reckoned about 3150 for the repairs. So I bought the car, gave his dad the £250 and signed a recipet saying bought as sold, no MOT, car tax to run out this month. I took it to my garage today only to be told £450 for repairs as needs loads doing to it to pass MOT. I was told it failed on three things only.
What's my position now cos I don't want to pay £450 repairs on a £250 car?? Anybody help??
Thanks
Chica
I take it this is a private sale (i.e, you did not buy it from a business)?
If it is a private sale, your rights are quite limited, and even harder to enforce than if it weren't.
You have a case against the seller for misrepresentation, possibly, but bear in mind that taking any legal action costs money. Enforcing a judgement will only be as sucessful as the defendant (the guy you took to court) is able to pay.
Even so, where faults are pointed out to you, and you have had a chance to examine the car, and a reduction in price is given to take account of such faults, it is unlikely you would get anything at all. The most you could hope for is the extra costs for the needed repairs not revelead to you. And even these may be difficult to get. Did the guy honestly think taht was all that was needed? did he get a report and hide the true extent of repairs? Is he a mechanic? In other words, was it reasonable to rely on this statement taht the car needed £x amount of repairs?
There are too many issues here that work against you to succeed in court (and I'm just about to have my tea, so can't look at all the case law and legislation properly!).
I hope someone else can say otherwise, but I think it's best to put this down to experience.
Dodgy Car??
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