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Originally Posted by
Thrustyjust
To be honest, if I was going to buy a car at the far end of the country , regardless of being a reputed dealer, I would have had an independent inspection done. The car is 7 years old, so not that young. As for the faults, I am sure he would be just wanting to punt this back out asap, as was only a trade in. I can understand your frustration with it, but I was always told to try every switch and button when checking a second hand car, which I did when my mate bought a 2008 TT last week. See if he comes back to you , but we haven't used tax discs for over a year now, so as for a windscreen, you may need to claim on your insurance as damaged and see if he might pay the excess, as it wont affect your no claims.
You are missing my point.
The faults are easily sorted, the money doesn't really matter either. The fact that he has not answered my calls, replied to texts, replied to emails, replied on eBay at least to explain he didn't know about the purposely hidden faults makes me think he knew about them and covered the engine light etc. If he didn't, why would you completely ignore someone? I would much rather he had the balls to reply and say "you are getting nothing". I would have more respect for that.
As for the windscreen, the road tax holder was purposely placed in a funny place so that the crack could not be seen, it was not until I removed it that it could be. I.e he (or someone else) put it there to cover the crack.