Garage stole a Scooter engine...what can I do?
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Bit of a long story here, so please bear with me.
My scooter went in for MOT work at a garage.
In the meantime, the owner MOT'd another scooter and 'repaired' the brakes. It passed the MOT and customer took away his bike. Very soon after, he was involved in a major road accident - his brakes failed.
Garage owner lays off his employees, and shuts down his business to escape beuing sued (turns out he didnt have sufficient insurance).
So, I go to pick up my un-repaired scooter and take it to another garage for the repairs.
A customer of the new garage comes in to buy some spare parts, and mentions he has been laid off from the dodgy garage. The owner of the new garage where the scooter now is, mentions that he has taken my scooter from the dodgy place to carry out the repairs. They get talking......
The sacked employee tells the garage owner that whilst employed by the now closed garage, he was instructed by the owner to remove the engine from my scooter, and replace it with a fooked engine, and that the engine now in my scooter is no good!!
Sure enough, the owner checks the engine, and has quoted me approx £700 to buy a new engine, and install it.
Now, the guy who informed the new owner of all this said that he wont be a witness in any police cae due to the old garage owner having something on him which he doesnt want coming out!!!
We checked the engine number on my scooter with the logbook, and sure enough they dont match up!!
The shyster owner is also still operating at least 2 other Mototcycle repair businesses, FFS!
So, bearing in mind we only have the word of a sacked employee, but do have an engine number that doesnt match the logbook, does anyone know what my options are?
Cheers
N1S
My scooter went in for MOT work at a garage.
In the meantime, the owner MOT'd another scooter and 'repaired' the brakes. It passed the MOT and customer took away his bike. Very soon after, he was involved in a major road accident - his brakes failed.
Garage owner lays off his employees, and shuts down his business to escape beuing sued (turns out he didnt have sufficient insurance).
So, I go to pick up my un-repaired scooter and take it to another garage for the repairs.
A customer of the new garage comes in to buy some spare parts, and mentions he has been laid off from the dodgy garage. The owner of the new garage where the scooter now is, mentions that he has taken my scooter from the dodgy place to carry out the repairs. They get talking......
The sacked employee tells the garage owner that whilst employed by the now closed garage, he was instructed by the owner to remove the engine from my scooter, and replace it with a fooked engine, and that the engine now in my scooter is no good!!
Sure enough, the owner checks the engine, and has quoted me approx £700 to buy a new engine, and install it.
Now, the guy who informed the new owner of all this said that he wont be a witness in any police cae due to the old garage owner having something on him which he doesnt want coming out!!!
We checked the engine number on my scooter with the logbook, and sure enough they dont match up!!
The shyster owner is also still operating at least 2 other Mototcycle repair businesses, FFS!
So, bearing in mind we only have the word of a sacked employee, but do have an engine number that doesnt match the logbook, does anyone know what my options are?
Cheers
N1S
H_Kan said:
I would suggest the new owner may have done this himself, in order that you are forced to buy a new engine from him.
Crossed my mind at first.However, Im pretty sure that he is 100% Genuine. He also gave me the name of a police officer to contact in relation to this.
Plus, he buys confiscated vehicles from the police and said he needs to be whiter than white in order to do so.
king Scum. 
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