Right ill try to keep this brief instead of writing an essay. My husband was working for a company doing pat testing, he worked all over the uk and did normally 50+ hours a week and had to stay away from home sometimes. He applied for another job as a maintance manager 12 miles away from where we live and although he didnt get it they offered him a maintance assistant job. He was told it was £6 an hour for 39 hours a week paid monthly. He accepted it even tho we knew we were going to loose out on money as his other job was £7 an hour. He took this new job because his old boss was a bit of a twit (putting it nicely) and my husband hated working there. Now he started his new job last monday to be told that the pay was weekly and £5.80 by the other staff and the maintance manager confirmed this. The general manager is off as his dad has died so cant get hold of him. Now i know he should have got it all in writing about it being £6 an hour and paid monthly but he didnt so nothing we can do about it. Anyway i wondered where he would stand if he left regarding benefits. You see the problem is with the job he has once he has paid tax and nat.insurance (going off £5.80 an hour) we would not have enough money to cover our bills never mind feed and clothe our 2 children (2 years and 5 months old). We get working and child tax credit but even with these it still doesnt cover it. But if he was claiming job seekers we would get out council tax and rent paid for. Please no one start about him being lazy or whatever for wanting to leave his job, he is a very hard working man. He has worked since he left college at 17 and has always had a job. He doesnt have many qualifications but he does hold a digger license but no one wants to take him on as he is only 26 and doesnt have years and years of experience of working on somewhere like a building site for example. We toyed with the idea of me going out to work and him staying at home but i have not worked for nearly 3 years now. I was in my final year of a nursing diploma when i fell pregnant with my eldest at the age of 26, i was very poorly and had to end my university course. No one now seems to want to take me on as i have been out of work. Just looking for some advice. Thanks

first of all thank you for your replies. The car was taken away to a local renault specialist who infact told the owner of the garge that it was more or less knackered. The owner rang us and has given us a full refund on the car which is good news. I think he plans on now selling it at auction or something as its jsut going to cost him too much money to fix. We sent him a rather nice letter and it outlined that if i had of been driving when the revs stuck then this would have been a whole lot worse. Think he realised there was nothing more he could do.

It was a privately owner garage. Not a private seller and not a huge dealership like ford evans halshaw or something.

I can see what your saying but the owner said that if we returned it he would sort out any problems rather than go through the warranty if possible. However a whole new problem has arose. On the way to taking it back my husband was accelerating when the rev counter shot up and went to the maximum. Husband lost control of car, nearly ended up in a ditch and then finally got it under control again and managed to stop the car and switch engine off. He tried to start car again and it jsut kept shooting up to the max. Owner is now apparently coming on monday to pick it up and leave us a courtesy car and said he will do anything which needs doing. Now to me that is a dangerous fault and if it had happened when i was driving with our 2 children under the age of 2 i am 99% certain i would have been in the ditch. Just dont know what to do whether to just let him come and fix it and thats that or to persue it to get a refund with it now having a dangerous fault. If any one can give any further advice i would be very grateful.

Its a renault laguna estate (sport tourer) 51 plate.

Right this is my first time posting on here so forgive me if this has already been covered. My husband and myself went and bought a 51 plate renault laguna estate with just under 54000 miles on it last saturday 60 miles away. When my husband picked it up the indicator stork was not cancelling itself so the owner of the garage asked him to give him an hour and he would get it replaced. So off he toddles to the nearest cafe to have a drink and wait. When he returned the indicator was working, however on the journey home he found out it was not cancelling itself again when indicating left. Also the car has built in satnav which the owner of garage set up with the directions for home on it. Once out of the town my husband realised that it actually was not picking up any signal and that it wasnt even picking up the location but a location some 100 miles away. Now my husband would have gone back but he had my brother in law following him and had to get home for work. Once he got home there were more concerns, a rattle from behind and the steering pulling to the right. My husband rang the owner and he asked him to bring it back in and he would deal with it. Today we took the car to a nationwide centre for a free health check and a diagnostic check as the emissions light came on. The report came back as: BRAKES FRONT DISCS WORN AND PADS 60% WORN DISC FRONT PR PADS FRONT REAR DISCS WORN AND PITTED ON INNER FACE PADS NEW DISC REAR PR PADS REAR S+S N/S/F STEERING RACK ARM HAS PLAY IN IT OTHERS CRACK IN BATTERY COVER ENGINE MISFIRING CHECKED FOR TROUBLE CODES FOUND TWO STORED 0114 AND 0145 MISFIRE CYLINDER 4 AND MULTIPLEXED NETWORK NO SIGNAL SUSPECT COIL PACK, PLUG LEADS AND SPARK PLUGS FOR MISFIRE TROUBLE CODE 0145 REQUIRES TAKING TO DEALER TO FURTHER INVESTIGATE. All these have AMBER next to it which says - some concerns registered. if not rectified these items need monitoring to ensure safety and/or reliabilty and prevention of added costs. What i want to know is does anyone think we have grounds for a full refund? We have got a full 3 month warranty but the place we took is the place it would go and they have said that it needs to go to a proper renault dealership to have it fixed so this is obviously not covered in the warranty. We paid £2550 by debit card.