Stealers Wheels...
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A semi-hypothetical scenario...
A recently bought car turns out to have dangerously repaired alloy wheels (multiple welds on the inside edges) which the dealer who sold it, when sent photographs of the damage, agrees to replace. When the new (second hand) alloys are delivered and fitted, the dealer asks that the old alloys are disposed of, and once they have been (by the purchaser taking them to a friend of a friend’s tyre place) the dealer suddenly wants to pretend they weren’t really that bad and that they probably “went through a pot hole” (presumably four pot holes, multiple times).
The purchaser then retrieves the wheels from said tyre place, and tells the dealer, reminding them of the horrible condition of them with more photos.
The dealer then begins to demand the wheels back, saying that they now belong to him and are “stolen”.
Is he right?
Is he perhaps keen to destroy the “evidence” although I’m not sure why he’d care now the wheels are replaced?
Why the desire to courier 100 kilos of scrap alloys?
Maybe he wants to make sure they don't get sold on or used again, as you have the replacements I would think they are his property as only a car was purchased and not a car and 4 spare alloy wheels.
The language is quite emotive and it could be he needs them to pursue the people who sold the car to him so is desperate to retrieve them.
The language is quite emotive and it could be he needs them to pursue the people who sold the car to him so is desperate to retrieve them.
It's either hypothetical or it isn't.
If he's replaced the wheels for you he's perfectly within his rights I'd say to ask for them back.
But if he said to dispose of them and then changed his mind after you disposed of them (with written evidence of his request) I'd say it's his problem.
Regardless it's his problem and no matter what he's going to have to sue you for the cost of them and I can't imagine he will.
But as this is all semi hypothetical who knows.
If he's replaced the wheels for you he's perfectly within his rights I'd say to ask for them back.
But if he said to dispose of them and then changed his mind after you disposed of them (with written evidence of his request) I'd say it's his problem.
Regardless it's his problem and no matter what he's going to have to sue you for the cost of them and I can't imagine he will.
But as this is all semi hypothetical who knows.
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