I am well shocked reading all this. We had the same situation with EMC Cars over 12 month ago. The car started to chuckle the same day we picked it up we went to the garage next day to return it and they refused to take it back but they offered to fix it. After driving 284miles when we were about to take off to the airport the engine did not start. let us completely down. EMC of course refused to take it back or repair it and asked us for the registered engineered report. After delivering the report to them, they said we can fix it with provided warranty - but the warranty did not covered it. What a stressful time we had. No money, dumped car on our driveway which we could not even move and our garden project had to be postponed as we could not get digger to the rear! We registered the case with Ombudsman - it took over 10 months of constant chasing and chasing in the end they said we need to keep this car as the fault could happen within the 280 miles we drove with it! End of the story. The Autotrader Add said ( i emailed copy of it to Ombudsman ) car is in excellent condition - Ombudsman said - that means for ' their age and millage ' One total joke! They were giving week after week for the EMC to reply to them and that is why it took so long. Now: We had to buy another car for the time being and now trying to sell the one from EMC cars with is already worth GBP 1500 less!! Why they go away with this all??? Take the money and laugh??? And the consumer has to pay the huge price for it??? Where is the law? I am wonder how your court case goes. Please let us know! It may give me the power to register our case with court as well! Good luck!