All this needs is one person to take them to court, and defend themselves with regard libel, they will have to prove the info is truthful, which if they are unable to persuade a judge they are telling the truth then the whole thing will collapse,

you should have a look at leakingwindscreen.com to see how RAC operate......

THE SAGA CONTINUES:- i am still having a lot of hassle with Capital Bank, i now have a solicitor and we had an inspection carried out on th ecar today and they have found loads wrong with it including evidence of a poor repair from an accident, can any one tell me the law in scotland with regards a dealer selling used cars that are damaged repairables, we dont know how badly damaged it was but the repair was a botch and is now rusting....

It just gets better and better, i paid £6000 for the car and the engineer said today it was worth about £5-600. just waiting on his written report now,

The information commissioners office is a joke, i have spent 8 months asking them to sort out capital bank and they say that capital bank have implied permission to use my data and there is nothing i can do about it,

Well i ont want to give you no hope, but i have been battling wiht capital bank over a faulty car for 7 months alerady and i have been down the trading standads route also, given what you have said i think a solicior is your best bet but bear in mind my own solicitor has been ignored totally by capital bank, you will find most big companies have the atitude that they have deeper pockets than anyone else and that means they can knock over consumers easily...but saying that you must fight them

How long did you have the car before the problem became aparent, is the fault major...how have you only covered 400 miles in 7 months, what is the fault, make and model of car.

Are you able to give more details, how old is the car, how long have you had it, miles covered the more info the more people can help,

OH yes, i reckon 2 billion this year alone, not to mention the last 6 years, at least they are not going to run out of money

Just spotted this on the bbc site,

BBC NEWS | Scotland | HBOS promising record dividends

it basically states that HBOS has made £2.96Bn for the first half of the year and paid out £79M in charges refunds,

I have taken a company to court once, and when it finally came to the crunch i had all the evidence etc and the judge turned round and said theres your money now what else do you think you want, i replied a judgement against the company as i did not come here for money, his reply! well your not getting that the defendant has paid you XXXX, case closed.....

Not exactly fair....but my only court experience....and no i was not after the money i wanted the judgement....

I am afraid this result has destroyed my faith in the UK justice system, i think this country is ripping us off, big business has the run of the country and there is nothing we can do about it,

How could we expect Tom to win over a bank that probably has lots of goverment ministers as shareholders, they would not be losing, i see that he can not claim for compensation but the news is not saying much about the actual charges

I dont understand why the fine? that does not make sense

BBC NEWS | Business | US worry fails to hit HSBC profit

Just noticed this on the BBC site, HSBC have paid back £116 Million in overdraft fees...still a drop in the ocean compared with profits of £6.7bn.

i reckon the banks are making so much money that it does not matter what anyone does, they will continue to make more money.

what time do we expect to hear, i have to go out soon and the tension is hurting me.....

A conspiracy maybe, i for one will not trust big business, there are to many goverment officials working for these guys for it to be anything else, i usually will not be sitting with the conspiracy theory but it looks mighty suspicious.......

ALTHOUGH THE MORE CYNICAL AMONG THINK PROBABLY, I doubt any one has been told as the media frenzy surrounding this case is bound to be a bit mad.

what finance company did you use and is it Hire Purchase or what

I tried to throw that at my HP company and they ignored me, they did not even answer my mail, just ignored me completly, so did the garage they reckoned i would never get it to court so tough! even now i have employed a solicitor and they have not even bothered to get back in touch with him, these garages and hP companies all know that it is too difficult to get people to court so they take the risk and ignore people, DEMON X is totaly correct about the reverse burden but if they wont take hte car back nor refund your money court will be your only option, one thing that may be in your favour is in England you can go small claims up to £5000 where as in scotland we can only go up to £1500

Good luck and dont let them get away with it

i think a lot of the things you have are pretty common to the laguna of that year, up until 2003 it was not the best car out there,

I rejected the car as mine was on HP and after 6-7 repairs taking the car off the road for 68 days out of 150 days ownership and some advice from the forum and trading standards i rejected it, but that was in January and it is still not sorted out, Capital Bank have even messed about with my solicitor so it is now going to court, although i am unsure when yet. the car you bought from a dealer should be covered by the sale of goods act and as such you may have a case for "not of reasonable quality" but be quick as you must try and get these kinds of things sorted out as soon as possible, write to the dealer if he is not interested then speak with a solicitor who i versed on consumer issuses.

Hi, i wonder if anyone reading this will post any problems they have had since purchasing a used renault laguna, in particular about the 2000 model 1.9DCI but i suppose any 1998-2003 model will do, i am trying to find out about as many of their faults as possible.

Thanks

I had a 1.9 DCI renault laguna, and i had it in the garage 7 times in 3 months, the last time it was in the garage it was unusable from the beginning of December until i finally rejected the car on the 25th January 2007, it had several problems and the more i look into it the more i discover that lagunas are trouble prone, even the renault dealer has to put a 3 year warranty on them to et them out the door, if oyu dont mind could you send me a PM with a list of all the faults you have or have had and i will try and find out how common they are.

HI Tony, I am dealing with capital bank at the moment (i am still trying to get my money back after they sold me a dud car) and unless you are in a position to pay them off i feel you are wasting your time, thay have to be the worst company i have ever dealt with, they have even ignored my solicitor, court for them now but i will not give up and you should keep plying pressure on to them, you may also find it useful to make a complaint to the FOS about there lack of contact,

£400,000 for a logo, could have been invented better if they had put a comp round the schools, it looks crap just like everything else the goverment spends money on.

Where was it MOT'ed, did you have the MOT carried out or the seller,

Make sure you complain to Watchdog the more the better.....