dodgy car sale

[Burnout_bro]

hey guys i just bought a manual vr calais 2 days ago, and the car is ****ed, the front gearbox bearing is gone, it hasnt been serviced in god knows how long and there are other bearing noises starting to appear, i would love to get my money back but i dont think its going to happen. what can i do, there is a lot of work needed to be done and i paid good money for the car. do i have any rights? or am i pretty much screwed

[minux]

Did you buy it from a dealer or privately?

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

Being a VR it is more than 12 years old, so no warranty from a dealer. Caveat emptor I'm afraid.

[CSP]

"Buyer beware" is what it will come down to I'm affraid.

Did you test drive it or get a mechanical inspection done?

[EvoVIIIJDM]

"Buyer beware" is what it will come down to I'm affraid.

Did you test drive it or get a mechanical inspection done?

what he said

[nicko]

sorry to sound like a c u next time but patch it up and sell it, if someone else is stupid enough to buy it then god speed to them

[Burnout_bro]

well i did test drive it and it was fine, the oil was a bit low and it was making a small noise so i put it to that, and it was private, isnt there some thing about cars over 5000 dollars have a 30 day warranty.?

[nicko]

nope. just fix it or sell it you fcked up so lesson learnt hey. all the best though sorry to hear about this

[CSP]

isnt there some thing about cars over 5000 dollars have a 30 day warranty.?

errr... It was a private sale. I'll say it again, BUYER BEWARE.

You made an assumption instead of getting an inspection. Learn the lesson that is clearly there to be learned, disguise the noise with additives and sell it on to some other unsuspecting chump.

[Burnout_bro]

hmmmm, so i finally buy i car that i love so much and its ****ed, i will try bull**** the guy i bought it off, i went to school with him but dont know him, i really feel like whooping some serious ass but its not worth it, he just said to me "you probly just flogged it"

[nicko]

get some quotes and show him the cost, get a mechanic so say that these faults existed b4 u bought it (if possible) then show u guy u bought it off and try to come to sum sort of agreement, even if you get 1000 back you no. then tell him you will cave his kneecaps in etc etc and c how that goes. if all else fails patch her up and sell it

[Burnout_bro]

yeah i could do that, but he insists that he had no idea, maybe i should talk to his parents. because i will just end up getting to much rage build up and end up swearing my head off which will get me no where, he is not answering his phone, i will go around to his house tonight reguardless, better off going by myself. or i can wait an hour and wait for him to finish school, atleast he wont be able to avoid it then, if i get 1000 to fix it i will be happy.

[levymetal]

everyone makes mistakes, i'll never buy a car again without an racv check on it. reason being is that, though i'm not 100% sure, if racv checks it and it ****s up like yours did within 30 days, racv will actually fix it for you at no cost. but if you bought the car at a high price then there's all possibility that someone else will buy it as well. people who don't know anything about cars etc. so just try get it off your hands

[Burnout_bro]

problem is ive alrwady owned 8 cars in the oast 1.5 years, thought id finally settle down on a car that i loved, and now this happens, i hate selling cars, people dont turn up, people give you an offer and say they dont want the stereo or something and never turn up, it ****s me, i tried to do the right thing but i can never win, its bull****.

[VLDavo]

i dunno why u even forked over 5g for a vr calais in the first place let alone one that was making noises ...but dude buyer beware simple as that nothing u can do u bought it as is and how u saw it..

but it happens dude patch it up and palm it off

[lxhatch]

a guy i play footy with is going through the same thing, he bought a speed boat for $13k
and it all ran fine when they took it for a swim, so he bought it took it to get serviced and was told it needed heaps (350 chev) head had a crack, water jackets and bores all stuffed, he contacted a lawyer and supposedly he should be able to get the seller to cough up so dough because he sold it in good running condition....
personally i think he clutching at straws to ge any money but hey he might.....

[VNexecutive]

i think if youve owned 8 cars in 1.5 years you shouldnt have trouble selling this one.

[DANNY8]

If I was in ur shoe's, I'd park it in the shed, pull the donk and trans out and fix it myself. As long as u got the tools and know how. I just bought all new ACL rings and bearings for my 253....can't remember exactly wat it cost, but it was under $200.

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

You could take it to small claims I suppose, but they would probably tell you the same thing. I don't know you at all, but I'm sorry to say, I'm on his side with this. Even if he did know, you still bought it.

[Scooter79]

What I don't understand is you're getting mad at the seller of the car for 'supposedly' selling you a dud car and you want some money back. But now you're thinking of palming it of to another unsuspectiing buyer. What will your reaction be when the next owner rocks up on your door step with a baseball bat demading some money back. Honestly people! Why do they call it 'common sense' when it isn't really common anymore.

[Greekos]

you should have kept your old car, bad luck there's not much you can do, once you bought it as it was a private sale unless you can organize something with the buyer.

[quick308]

What I don't understand is you're getting mad at the seller of the car for 'supposedly' selling you a dud car and you want some money back. But now you're thinking of palming it of to another unsuspectiing buyer. What will your reaction be when the next owner rocks up on your door step with a baseball bat demading some money back. Honestly people! Why do they call it 'common sense' when it isn't really common anymore.

i agree that wld be a prick of an act. aspecaily when maken a thread out of it sayen how upset u are then doin the same thing to someone else. i think the best thing to do wld be fix it up as best u can but be honest with tha next buyer. ur choice i hope u do tha right thing

[Dayvo]

Have a look through the Trading Post in the wrecking section and buy one the same model and swap the parts over then sell the rest to make a few bucks

[Burnout_bro]

i paid 5k for it because its actually in very good condition and its manual, id fix it before i sell it, i have replaced gearboxes before but thats not the point, i have found the problem and its the front bearing, in the box, but you guys dont understand that he just got the clutch fixed and the flywheel machines and the nose plate re routed. so it could be the mechanics fault, i will get advice off my mechanic on whose fault it is before i take action, he is going to look at it later today.and i do blame myself in a way, but i want to get the whole story strait before anything happens.

[evil_monkey]

at 5k buyer beware, very hard to get a vehicle these days that dosent have something wrong with it.

last year i paid 22g's for a vy berlina with 25 thouasnd k's on the clock (thinking this would be the end of my car woes), the auto trans started leaking fluid from the front main seal,(trans had to be ripped out there was a large hole in the casting between the seal after i got it back it used to sometimes really clunk into drive/reverse and occasionally surged into 2nd gear) had the infamous power steering shudder, radious rods used to clunk, and had vibration at high speed. ended up selling it back to the dealer at a loss just to get rid of it.

the list could go on lol ive had a lot of cars none of which have been problem free most of which have cost over 10 grand, my 5.0L vs stato was the worst of the lot but she was stolen/recovered i ended up fixing 99% of the problems spending 7 grand in the process on top of me 10 grand purchase price