Rejecting a car

[C70R]

A very good result, flying in the face of some of the so-called experts here. Good job for sticking to your guns.

[TooMany2cvs]

bmw535i said:

Well done to 2CVS for his rubbish advice on this subject once again

Or you could just try reading what I actually wrote...

[KevinCamaroSS]

pits said:

Hmm thing is, using thought maths the car is now not a money maker for them.
Say they bought it at
£1000
I'd add prep, but they clearly didn't prep it.
£1250 worth of repairs
£100 on three and a bit tanks of fuel (two in Fiat, one and a half i n courtesy car, they mucked us around so I refused to fill it back up with fuel)

£1350
£3200 to buy car back
£1800 to fix car

Which works out at, let's call it £7000, as it's quibbling over a few hundred, then I don't know what they had to do on the finance side of things, but there would have been £2300 outstanding on my it.


Seems like a rather painful and expensive mistake for them, could have been avoided if they actually prepped it and looked at it.

I'll just point out one error in your maths: The refund of £3200 has not cost them anything because you paid it in the first place. Does not matter whether on finance or not.

[ging84]

A good result although your demands went slightly beyond your rights under the consumer rights act.
Under the final right to reject, in the first 6 month you are entitled to a full refund, except when it's a car. So you should have only been entitled to a partial refund allowing for a certain amount of depreciation.
But given it was an 8 year old car that is now a couple of months older and probably hasn't done a lot of extra miles it probably would have been a negligible difference and not worth the effort of quibbling over.