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A1VDY said:
Ridiculous £20K fine for selling a car with a supposedly bent wheel. It may possibly have been in a smash but consequently didnt show on an Hpi check. Do these people not realise theyre buying an old used car??
I can't tell if you're serious - hopefully not,... "An independent vehicle examiner found the car had been repaired in a “half hearted and generally shoddy manner” after being involved in a “hefty” collision while the front nearside road wheel and tyre made a “lethal combination”."
HPI only works if the cars that have been written off by an insurer, not those badly repaired in a backstreet garage and flogged to an unsuspecting punter.
A1VDY said:
Ridiculous £20K fine for selling a car with a supposedly bent wheel. It may possibly have been in a smash but consequently didnt show on an Hpi check. Do these people not realise theyre buying an old used car??
Ermmm... There was a bit more to it than just a bent wheelShe quickly discovered one of the tyres needed pumping up twice a day and was warned by a friend who examined the car that it had been in a front end collision with parts held together by cable ties.
“She had been misled by the advert because the vehicle was in an unsafe and dangerous condition at the point of sale,” said Mr Lee Marlew, prosecuting on behalf of Wolverhampton Trading Standards Department.
An independent vehicle examiner found the car had been repaired in a “half hearted and generally shoddy manner” after being involved in a “hefty” collision while the front nearside road wheel and tyre made a “lethal combination”.
The defending solicitor said:
Mr Joel Smith, defending Parkside Motors and its sole director Gokhan Kismar, said the saleswoman no longer worked for the company
This demonstrates to me that they are shady as f
k. Why wouldn't you put your hands up and say we messed up? No, we'd rather make this general statement to deflect the problem away from us. Pathetic. p4cks said:
This demonstrates to me that they are shady as fk. Why wouldn't you put your hands up and say we messed up? No, we'd rather make this general statement to deflect the problem away from us. Pathetic.
It means that they can keep some semblance of dignity and haven't lost face completely. Shameful behaviour but many seem to indulge in it. k. Why wouldn't you put your hands up and say we messed up? No, we'd rather make this general statement to deflect the problem away from us. Pathetic. The continued protestations of innocence (and particularly that dreadful video) from Fiona Onosanya are evidence of just the same thing I suspect.
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