Originally Posted by
fordsportjay
im susprised a used car has a 3 year warranty?
is the warranty with them or with a warranty company?
was the car sold with a full mot? if so pads should not be down to metal,but a fail is only 1.5mm-any more than that and it wont fail.
the car has to be fit for its purpose-if it is not they should have the chance to put it right.
a call to trading standards will give your friend all the information they need on how to go about it. if trading standards have had other complaints about the place they may well get involved.
hope this helps
you need to find out if it has been registered as damaged/repaired...that would be a huge help if it is on returning the car to them if they have not declared it.
Yea I was surprised too, but apparently it is. Pretty sure with the dealer too.
The Pads were down to bugger all, she even said when she was braking down from motorway speeds, not a lot seemed to happen, scared her quite a bit. Also had an MOT recently, not even an advisory for the brakes, so is clearly dodgy.
The car was back with the place she got it from last week, and he has failed to sort it, he tried to blag that a large oil leak was down to the rocker cover gasket, but surprise surprise, as I said to them, it didn't sort it.
She is getting on to trading standards when they re-open Monday, not going to let her get ripped off!
And yea, that's why I asked about a HPI check, see if it's been recorded at some point, just to build up more against him!
I've already told her to get a garage or somewhere to do a full check, and note down everything wrong, from a 'professional' point of view.
Thankyou to the people who replied with helpful posts, I posted on here to see if anyone else had been in a similar situation, and the replies have helped.