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    • I forgot to say, there is one last possibility and that is that they will receive your letter of rejection and simply fold, accept the rejection and refund you. Don't wait too long for this. Seven days maximum – but in that seven days you could send your letter of claim anyway and when that you don't hear from them or when they start mucking around at least you are seven days closer to beginning the legal action – and they will know it (which is the important thing).
    • Okay that is excellent that you have an email between the garage and the warranty company confirming that there is a serious problem with the gearbox. That is very powerful evidence. I think the situation is this: you have sent them a letter of rejection but the reputation of big motoring world is that they won't take a lot of notice and they will try to prevaricate and maybe even blame you. Clearly you don't want the car any more and anyway it sounds as if the cost of repairs is going to be enormous. You don't know if the warranty company is going to step up to the mark but the whole thing is going to take a long time and I understand that you have lost confidence in big motoring world because of this event and also their reputation which you are now discovering on Facebook and on this forum and no doubt elsewhere. On the basis that you don't want the car any more and you want your money back, you need to hurry things along. I think the first thing is that you need to decide if you are prepared to bring a claim in the County Court. Even without the warranty money, the claim is worth more than £10,000. For actions less than £10,000, you bring a "small claim" and this means that even if you lose the case you won't be liable for the other side's costs. If you win the case then not only will you get your money plus interest but also you will recover all of the costs of the action. For actions more than £10,000, you go to something called the "fast track" and in the event that you lose the case, then you could be liable to reimburse the winner some of the costs. This means that in addition to not recovering your own money, you would lose your own court fees and also you would have to to bear the costs of the other side probably something less than £5000 – but as a rough guess. If you bring your court claim then your chances of success are almost 100%. Frankly if you brought a court claim then I can imagine that big motoring world will put their hands up and pay you out rather than face go to court and losing and getting a judgement against them. However, it you need to consider that this is a risk factor – although my view it is a negligible risk factor. If you did bring a court case, it wouldn't be instant. If they put their hands up then it would probably happen very quickly. If they didn't put their hands up then you could take anything up to a year for the matter to be resolved and during that time you would be without your car and without your money and in the middle of litigation. I'm explaining this to you say that you understand how it works. Bring a court case would be really the last resort when everything else has failed. However, I'm quite certain that you would win and it would be stupid of big motoring world to try to resist. In order to bring a court case you would have to send a letter of claim giving them 14 days to accept rejection and organise the refund otherwise you would begin the claim. Don't imagine that you could bluff this. If you did send a letter of claim then you would have to go through with it otherwise you lose all credibility and you might as well pack up and go home. So with this in mind, here are possible courses of action you could take. You can simply wait and see what their reaction to your letter of rejection will be. However they may not reply or else they may find some other reason to delay and of course during that time you will be without your car and without your money blah blah blah, not knowing if big motoring world were going eventually to start acting sensibly and respectfully towards you. The second thing you can do – and I think this has been suggested on Facebook – is that you can go along there and simply make yourself present and talk to other customers and generally speaking make a nuisance of yourself and embarrass them to the point where you would be explaining to other potential customers to be careful, to look on Facebook, and to do some careful research before they put their business to big motoring world. This has a reasonable chance of success although you would have to be careful. You should go accompanied by a friend and there should be no anger, no arguments, nothing that could be considered as being overly aggressive so that big motoring world would have no justification in kicking you out or even worse, calling the police. If you did this, then I would suggest that you record everything on the telephone carried in a pocket. A fully charged battery will probably keep a voice recorder and a telephone going for more than 20 hours or 30 hours. The other person can video any incidents so that everything is clear and you can inform big motoring world then it will be going up on the Internet. If you did this, my favourite option would be to issue the letter of claim giving them 14 days, and then going along to big motoring world with a copy of your letter of rejection and a copy of the exchange between the mechanic and the warranty company and a copy of your letter of claim – all settled together – and probably about 20 or 30 copies in all and I would start handing them out to any customers who came in. Big motoring world will soon get the picture and they will either move your the premises in which case you stand outside and carry on doing it or they will finally give in. Of course there is a chance that they won't give in and they will simply call your bluff – but in that case I think you have no choice other than to follow through with your 14 day threat in the letter of claim and to begin the legal action. At the same time you should be putting up reviews on Google and also trust pilot explaining exactly what has happened and also explaining that the mechanic has confirmed to the warranty company that there is the serious problem, that you have asserted the right to reject and that this is been ignored by big motoring world and that you have now sent a letter of claim and that you will be starting a legal action in 14 days. Once again, don't bluff about the legal action. If you threaten it – then you must mean it – and on day 15 you click of the claim. You don't need a solicitor for any of this. It's all fairly straightforward and of course we will help you all the way that it the decision is yours to make and I think you need to make it fairly quickly. I think the cost of starting an action for about £13,000 is 5% and then also if it goes to trial which I would say is almost impossible – there would be an additional fee. You would claim interest at 8%. A judge might award a lower figure but frankly if you can show that big motoring world is attempting to ride roughshod over your very clear statutory consumer rights, I can imagine that the judge will want to show displeasure by awarding the full 8% which is a pretty good rate – even though it's not compensation for the hassle and the distress you are going through. If you decide to get solicitor, then if you win the case, because it is over £10,000 you will recover some of your costs but you won't recover all of them. If the solicitor begins by having exchanges of letters then I doubt whether you will be up to recover the cost of those and you could easily find that you're chalking up 500 quid or even a thousand simply on initial exchanges of correspondence. Also you need to bear in mind that if after having exchanges with a solicitor, big motoring world cave in – then you definitely won't get those costs back because you won't have gone to court and therefore a judge will not have made the order for payment of those costs. I suggest very strongly that you avoid paying any money for a solicitor and that you do it yourself. It's not a big deal – although you will have to you react quickly to the help we offer on this forum. Also, an additional benefit is that you will learn a lot and you will gain confidence and eventually you will feel good about suing anybody else who gets in your way. Nothing not to like! If you do decide to instruct a solicitor then you must take control of the solicitor. Most of them prefer to sit in an office writing letters on the clock. If you do decide to instruct a solicitor then you must instruct the solicitor very firmly that they should send one letter of complaint giving seven days. A second letter – a letter of claim giving 14 days and that they must then begin the action. If you don't do this. If you don't take control then it will simply cost you money, you will be without your car even longer and of course without your money. The whole thing is a nightmare. I think I've laid out the options but please do ask questions. I hope you can see that this is the kind of advice that you won't be getting on Facebook. Nothing against Facebook. It's good as a meeting place and to make people realise that they aren't on their own – but after that the advice given is weak and confusing.  
    • What makes you say that?  I have no idea how I would go about that or why they would even entertain discussions now that they've won the Court case
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      Car was dirty and test drive was two circuits of roundabout on entry to the showroom.  Was p/x my car and rushed by sales exec and a manager into buying the mini and a 3yr warranty that night, sale all wrapped up by 10pm.  They strongly advised me taking warranty out on car that age (2017) and confirmed it was honoured at over 500 UK registered garages.

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      The judge's reasoning is very useful and will certainly be helpful in any other cases relating to third-party rights where the customer has contracted with the courier company by using a broker.
      This is generally speaking the problem with using PackLink who are domiciled in Spain and very conveniently out of reach of the British justice system.

      Frankly I don't think that is any accident.

      One of the points that the judge made was that the customers contract with the broker specifically refers to the courier – and it is clear that the courier knows that they are acting for a third party. There is no need to name the third party. They just have to be recognisably part of a class of person – such as a sender or a recipient of the parcel.

      Please note that a recent case against UPS failed on exactly the same issue with the judge held that the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 did not apply.

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well they ignored my letter and have now given me 7 days to stop hanging out my washing or they will take legal action

 

I cant see what legal action they can take against you,your new LL has to aspect your tenancy as it was,before and after the sale

 

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Yes I tend to agree with you but the owner was a little crafty, they sold my flat to the new landlord but claim that they did not sell it with the right to the patio which my back door opens onto even though it had formed part of my tenancy since 1982 , the owner is getting the landlord to give me hassle by claiming that they dont have the right to allow me the use of the patio which they now call a flat roof, and they are in breach of their leasethis is the owners response for not getting planning permission to convert the patio to a pitched roof because we had to use the patio for a fire exit. its basically revenge on us for stopping them making a profit on the flat belowIts a very complicated situation but I feel certain that i still have the right to use the patio for my washing though they have only told me to stop hanging washing but not to use the patio for other purposes ( sitting outside)

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well heres a turn up for the book , the owner of the building said they would refurbish the patio and give me a wasing area.said that they would do this as it was unwise to take her on in a legal fight ( yeah right you dont scare me ) so an olive branch it might just work out ok after all but I still dont trust them and have asked for all tis to be put in writing

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Good,but you need to tread carefully make sure your LL is up to no good.

 

 

 

 

Out of interest,what was the final decision of Rent service on your previous thread below http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?279321-fair-rent-increase&p=3151079&viewfull=1#post3151079

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yes im worried that they might try to take up the patio area then try and replace it with a pitched roof, this would fall foul of the planning office but they have already tricked the planning office already when they converted downstairs to a flat (ie buikd it then apply for planning) they then bumped the builders for a lot of money, so they are quite dodgyim thinking that I get what they want to do in writing then contact the planning office advising them of the repair and my concerns. mind you the lot in our local office seem gutless LOL

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well the builder turned up today to assess the roof situation as apparently there is a leak, now you will love this turns out our Toilet has a leak and thats whats going through to down stairs and the roof is sound , I love irony, so now the LL will need to fix the Toilet But there is a reason why they are being nice they need to get to our water supply and run a spur to next door because it will cost them £3500 to run a seperate supply to the other flat , funny I thought we could not share water supplies and flats had to have their own , watch this space I smell a bit of Dodgy goings on here

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well they bit the bullet and had a new water supply installed to the flat below £3500 the bill one of the owners tried to compromise with us by trying to be nice and offering to work out a solution with the washing but the other partner said get stuffed and he wasent going to do anything for us, so it looks like we are setting up for some legal wrangles, its so sad because we are prepared to compromise but the owner has made it personal against us.as they say what goes around

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hi the rent officer said that they could not put any charges on to the rent they found in favor of myself and told the LL what to do and set my rent with a small increase I was happy but the landlord was none too pleased so there you go then untill the next load of crap, why do people do this if only life was so simple

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hi the rent officer said that they could not put any charges on to the rent they found in favor of myself and told the LL what to do and set my rent with a small increase I was happy but the landlord was none too pleased so there you go then untill the next load of crap, why do people do this if only life was so simple

 

Great news.............

 

Thanks for letting me know,No surprise to Rent officer ruled in your Favour.

 

It seam to be a common trick when a new LL buys a house/Flat with a existing regulated tenant in place,they try and put on a service charge to boost there income and fail..........................

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