Originally Posted by MAD ANDY
If you went to a car auction and bid on a car and won then asked to hear it running afterwards, should you then say you dont want it its tough - you should have looked at the car beforehand as you were able to. Even if yo had and won, then took it out on the road and all the gears were knackared, you couldnt refuse payment then as again they would say "thats the risk you take in buying at auction".
That's no true at all.
My Dad worked at ADT car auction for twenty years, and the same rules always apply.
There are two ways of buying - sold as seen or customer indemnity. Bear in mind the contract to purchase the vehicle is with the seller, and not the auction house.
Sold as seen is as described - if it's fucked, tuff shit.
Customer idemnity will actually give you the opportunity to return the vehicle if faulty.