Bought a trailer, turned out to be dangerous.
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Evening all,
Yesterday I bought a trailer from eBay, that was described as "good and reliable" but obviously had the sold as seen line on it.
I had a good look around it prior to paying for it and couldn't really tell anything was untoward.
A mile down the road one of the wheels flys off, the hub sheared clean off. From having a closer look at the failure it's obvious that it's happened before and had a very bad bodge done to repair it. The guy drilled down the stub shaft, tapped it and put an 8mm bolt in it.
We were doing about 20mph in a built up urban area when it went, and it was amazing it didn't hit another car or a pedestrian, it really flew off!
As you can imagine the guy has no interest what so ever in trying to make things right, won't respond to emails or phone calls, and we didn't go back to his house as I had to wait for recovery and by that time the gf just wanted to get home.
The money aspect doesn't really bother me and I know that eBay is caveat emptor. What bothers me is that I could have either done major damage to someones car or even killed someone.
So what would you do? would the boys in blue even be interested in this?
Yesterday I bought a trailer from eBay, that was described as "good and reliable" but obviously had the sold as seen line on it.
I had a good look around it prior to paying for it and couldn't really tell anything was untoward.
A mile down the road one of the wheels flys off, the hub sheared clean off. From having a closer look at the failure it's obvious that it's happened before and had a very bad bodge done to repair it. The guy drilled down the stub shaft, tapped it and put an 8mm bolt in it.
We were doing about 20mph in a built up urban area when it went, and it was amazing it didn't hit another car or a pedestrian, it really flew off!
As you can imagine the guy has no interest what so ever in trying to make things right, won't respond to emails or phone calls, and we didn't go back to his house as I had to wait for recovery and by that time the gf just wanted to get home.
The money aspect doesn't really bother me and I know that eBay is caveat emptor. What bothers me is that I could have either done major damage to someones car or even killed someone.
So what would you do? would the boys in blue even be interested in this?
Only a small 6'x4' trailer, market going rate £230. Bought privately from eBay.
I've taken the axle off tonight and had a much closer look at the failure, it's certainly been repaired very recently as underneath I found angle grinder marks where the axle had previously been taken off and the marks haven't even gone rusty yet, so I'd say for sure he knew the bodge was done, can I prove it 100% probably not.
I've taken the axle off tonight and had a much closer look at the failure, it's certainly been repaired very recently as underneath I found angle grinder marks where the axle had previously been taken off and the marks haven't even gone rusty yet, so I'd say for sure he knew the bodge was done, can I prove it 100% probably not.
paintman said:
There may well be offences under S75 RTA 1988:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/sectio...
But can you prove he did the bodge or knew it existed?
Certainly does like there's an offence there, question would be what to do about it, he could do with a lesson so that he doesn't do something like this again and end up hurting someone.http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/sectio...
But can you prove he did the bodge or knew it existed?
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