Nearly Bought a write off

nelgag

Hi all,

Wife had deal arranged to buy car trading in her own with a small to medium dealer with up to date service and 6 month warranty. Car was selling/advertised as 1 previous owner and we were told traded it in to buy new car from dealer. Got it checked with mechanic and full history with motorcheck which showed up as perfect re finance, write offs, odometer and accidents etc.

Seller did say that theyre was slight damage done to back door from a shopping trolley.

By chance I was put in touch with previous owner who I actually know and car was in bad enough accident before xmas - someone drove straight into side of car - airbags went out, estimate to fix it from a dealership was 10,000 and hence written off by Insurance and sold to salvage.

Good bit of time, money gone into it and now wifes own car is well past service and needs doing along with tax - we'd have a different car by now if we'd have known and this is additional money not necessary because of the stroke they pulled - anyone know where I stand on this or have any suggestions - I'm not big into claiming or going down authority route but at same time was being sold a pup.

colm_mcm

I assume you got your deposit back etc?

tinofapples

OP you were lucky ........ the next punter will probably not be so.

jeepers101

Did you buy the car or not?

slimjimmc

nelgag wrote: »

Hi all,

Wife had deal arranged to buy car trading in her own with a small to medium dealer with up to date service and 6 month warranty. Car was selling/advertised as 1 previous owner and we were told traded it in to buy new car from dealer. Got it checked with mechanic and full history with motorcheck which showed up as perfect re finance, write offs, odometer and accidents etc.

Seller did say that theyre was slight damage done to back door from a shopping trolley.

By chance I was put in touch with previous owner who I actually know and car was in bad enough accident before xmas - someone drove straight into side of car - airbags went out, estimate to fix it from a dealership was 10,000 and hence written off by Insurance and sold to salvage.

Good bit of time, money gone into it and now wifes own car is well past service and needs doing along with tax - we'd have a different car by now if we'd have known and this is additional money not necessary because of the stroke they pulled - anyone know where I stand on this or have any suggestions - I'm not big into claiming or going down authority route but at same time was being sold a pup.

Your post is not clear, what are you asking?
Did you buy the car and want your money back?
or
did you skip it and want compensation for the money you've yet to spend on servicing taxing the wife's old car?

nelgag

only found out yesterday and car was supposed to be bought yesterday with money ready to go - no deposit given

Supergurrier

Put reg in this thread and if a prospective buyer googles the reg they will avoid the pup.

glued

nelgag wrote: »

only found out yesterday and car was supposed to be bought yesterday with money ready to go - no deposit given

You have no rights as such as you didn't buy the car.

I don't understand how Cartell didn't return it as a write off. There is something else at play here.

rovoagho

So what do you want exactly?

djimi

Well Id be looking for my money back from Motorcheck for a start...

corktina

nelgag wrote: »

Good bit of time, money gone into it and now wifes own car is well past service and needs doing along with tax - we'd have a different car by now if we'd have known and this is additional money not necessary because of the stroke they pulled - anyone know where I stand on this or have any suggestions - I'm not big into claiming or going down authority route but at same time was being sold a pup.

Don't understand...you didn't buy it, how would you have any claim For a start, you would have to know for a fact that the seller knew it had been written off....

colm_mcm

corktina wrote: »

Don't understand...you didn't buy it, how would you have any claim For a start, you would have to know for a fact that the seller knew it had been written off....

Aye, but if its a one owner car as stated by the seller, and the original owner says it was scrapped, where did the garage get it?
Agree that the OP had a lucky escape.

Mint Sauce

rovoagho wrote: »

So what do you want exactly?

Maybe they just want to tell us of their lucky escape, to warn others, and maybe how to deal with a dealer that nearly sold them a lemon.

rovoagho

Sounds like they want compo to me, which is laughable. Their actual options are:

1. Walk away and thank your lucky stars.
2. Report them to SIMI, who'll do feck all about it.
3. Report them to the Consumers Association, who'll likely do the same as 2.

Personally I'd be doing all three and quickly getting back to work finding another car.

emeldc

In my opinion, people use the words 'write off' because it's sounds more dramatic than 'crashed'. An insurance company will write off a car if it is deemed to be uneconomical to repair. That doesn't mean that it cant be repaired perfectly well by someone willing to work at lower labour rates and maybe using some good second hand body parts. I'd say the car is fine, it just wasn't repaired at main dealer prices. People crash their cars all the time and have them well repaired privately probably through lack of adequate insurance cover. Do you think they all confess to the garage when they are traded in? There are loads of 'crashed' cars on the roads. It doesn't mean there is anything wrong with them.

colm_mcm

€10,000 of side impact damage would be a fair bit though.

emeldc

................ well it could have been a Bugatti or sumptin' :rolleyes:

Drummerboy08

colm_mcm wrote: »

Aye, but if its a one owner car as stated by the seller, and the original owner says it was scrapped, where did the garage get it?
Agree that the OP had a lucky escape.

Car could have been bought from a trader, who bought the car as damaged and repaired it.

It may not nessesarily have been the dealer that the OP was dealing with.

colm_mcm

and we were told traded it in to buy new car from dealer.

And

Car was selling/advertised as 1 previous owner

Vs

written off by Insurance and sold to salvage

Point is, somebody's lying. Most likely the dealer. Doesn't give him much credibility.

corktina

"One previous owner" and "one owner from new" can often mean different things.

dodzy

nelgag wrote: »

with a small to medium dealer.....

What dealer? What reg?

Eric Cartman

colm_mcm wrote: »

€10,000 of side impact damage would be a fair bit though.

Id be getting a full diag on the airbag module after that, its a lot cheaper than 10k to put in a light, stitch door cards and get a new steering wheel cover than to buy airbags