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    Hey guys

    The situation is, i got a vz exec off a dealership with 3 months warranty and it runs out 1st of next month. I have told my mechanic and a few other mates that the car is splurging at times and its really worrying me. I posted a thread about this labelled: oxygen sensor info. Because my mate said it could be that. BUT my mechanic has said it needs new coils, plugs and leads. So, i rang the dealer and what'ya know... He says he wont pay for it.

    Do i take action and threaten with dept of fair trading? Do i need evidence that they need replacing? Do i need to look into my warranties terms and conditions or is this type of thing always included?!

    Lol as you can tell i dont know much about this sort of stuff please help!
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    First step is to read what statutory warranties apply to used cars in your state and then the warranty fine print from the vendor. There are only very limited circumstances where statutory warranties can be waived.

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    Ok i will ask for a copy of it tomoro n look into it. Thanks reaper, quick reply. Something needs to be done man and fast ya no? Its driving me nuts

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    Hey man, I've just had the same issue with a dealer. Make sure they have a record of your complaint on file, go speak to someone else about what's wrong with your car and give them some coin to call up your dealership, they listen to mechanics. If this fails they generally back down as soon as ombudsmen are brought up. Best of luck man.

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    Quote Originally Posted by vex View Post
    Hey man, I've just had the same issue with a dealer. Make sure they have a record of your complaint on file, go speak to someone else about what's wrong with your car and give them some coin to call up your dealership, they listen to mechanics. If this fails they generally back down as soon as ombudsmen are brought up. Best of luck man.
    Great idea! Will try and figure that out tomoro! Thanks mate appreciate it

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    had similar thin when I got the caprice, front struts wern't to good either were the front brakes (new pads, but discs needed to be machined badly) really couldn't be stuffed dealing with the idiots so just did the brakes myself with better new discs and better pads, old discs were heat craked on the back of them :/ still gotta do the struts tho waiting till next week then will handle way better


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