How unhappy would you be to find this?

cj10jeeper said:
I feel for you, but the seller can just say they had no idea and bottom line is 'caveat emptor', when buying private.
First thing I do with private sales is put the car through an MOT at my trusted centre and do a full check of everything else I can.
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+1...

and as much as it is annoying, I don't see what comeback you have.

All he has to say is it wasn't like that when the car was sold to you - How can you prove 100% that it was?

Anyway, hope you get it fixed OK... shocking what some people do to cars these days! :headbang:

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Bugger it. Get it fixed and go enjoy the car on the track day. Lifes to short to get your knickers in a twist over crap like this.
 
Mowflow said:
Bugger it. Get it fixed and go enjoy the car on the track day. Lifes to short to get your knickers in a twist over crap like this.
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Actually yes, ^^^ this. Ignore my last post (apart from the bit about the AA talking out of its arse)-
 
That is awful, i couldnt sell a car knowing that a dodgy repair could potentially kill someone. I would go back and demand that he does something even if they agree to pay for half!
 
As shocking as that is, you aren't dead and didn't crash the car, so stop throwing a hissy fit over it. It isn't worth it. Just use it as a lesson to check everything properly next time.

The seller will swear blind that they had nothing to do with it, so is it really worth any potential grief?
 
Ben g, it's not a hissy fit as you put it! Just read the OP. I asked a question. If you've nothing constructive to add, I'd prefer it if you would not contribute any comments. At 55 I'm sufficiently aware of the big bad world, and have enough resources to not worry about the cost. As an ex mechanic I'm only too aware of how bodges can go wrong and kill or seriously injury the innocent.

That's my point entirely.
 
Somehow Dario, in the 10 years I have known you, I can't imagine you with a hissy fit :rofl:
 
Could the seller be innocent in this?

i.e. he had a puncture and took it to a tyre fitter for repair. they repaired it, so as far as the seller was concerned, all was well?

ok, so you can have the repairer for this, but the seller could genuinly be innocent.

I sold a set of winter wheels a few years ago and the buyer contacted me to say there was a huge gouge in one of them. It was her word against mine, but I did the decent thing and paid for a brand new tyre.

Later on, looking through the photo's I had taken for the advert, I could see the gouge, so it was there before I sent them...but I genuinly hadn't seen it.
 
If it's not a hissy fit, why are you giving 'what if' scenario's?

Just leave it be. There is more to life than angry phone calls/texts.

No one got hurt and that's all that really matters.
 
"I'll just turn this in to a game."

Come on man. I know you're pissed about what could have happened but really.
 
Why does (almost) everyone assume the vendor knew the condition of the tyre? If they did, they must be pretty stupid to have driven around with it in that condition whether they planned to sell the car or not. The majority of people I know would have taken a punctured tyre to Kwik Fit and been pleased if they came away having paid the price of a repair rather than that of a new tyre, then forgotten all about it. I understand why you're annoyed, but if you turned up at my door foaming at the mouth and throwing accusations around, demanding justice because I'd sold you the car you'd get pretty short shrift and a very firm invitation to leave! Better a calm telephone call requesting the receipt for the repair and the name of the garage, then contact trading standards. Or just accept that s**t happens and get on with life and enjoy your track day!
 
Update, not to be confused with a hissy fit.

Had the tyre changed. Found that the repair was a temporary repair Likley done by road side recovery. It consisted of 2 plugs and had been backed up by tyre foam.

That's it. Not saying any more on this. However if it's been of help to be an eye opener to others, I'm happy for that.
 
Talksthetorque said:
The AA talks out of it's arse a lot of the time.

A car does not have to be roadworthy to be sold - if it has been viewed by the buyer or described as Sold as seen/spares or repair etc.
Like someone says earlier.

Dario -

If you have viewed the car prior to purchase, then it's tricky as you have had a chance to inspect it.
If he signed a piece of paper with "no known faults" then you may have a chance of getting guilt money out of him, but if he is not in the motor trade - is it fair to expect him to know what a legal and illegal tyre repair is?

For your info -
Here is a guide to the repair standards in a PDF from the British Tyre Manufacturers Association
If you fancy getting technical. as far as I can see, it is outside the repairable area, and it looks like the hole is too wide to be repaired (hence the use of 2 plugs)
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I disagree the AAs advice is pure common sense.

Tim.
 
dario said:
Update, not to be confused with a hissy fit.

Had the tyre changed. Found that the repair was a temporary repair Likley done by road side recovery. It consisted of 2 plugs and had been backed up by tyre foam.

That's it. Not saying any more on this. However if it's been of help to be an eye opener to others, I'm happy for that.
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at least you found it and like you said a nice reminder for us :) some people have no clue tho cars just dont register. ive known countless people who simply see them as a box you feed petrol into one hole and shopping into the other.

how often do you hear the "it passed its MOT [364 days ago] i dont know why it broke" comment.
 
Regardless of the legalities of dealing with the situation I would be as annoyed as you about this.

I know it's buyer beware, but it's very hard to check every tiny detail and you do have to rely on seller honesty to some extent

Sadly some have no morals :(
 
Good news (not to be confused with a hissy fit)

I email the fella i bought the car from and advised him of the dangerous repair! He denied any knowledge of it, as he too would not have driven this car at the speeds we were driving at with a damaged tyre. I said he would get back to me as he had in the recent past left the car in a friends care.

It transpires that is friend had the puncture and had it road side repaired and did not tell him.

Anyway, long story short, he extracted £75 out of this friend and bank transferred it to me yesterday.

Result.
 
Good result for you. Great friend that would be though, assuming that the friend exists of course :D
 
pvr said:
Good result for you. Great friend that would be though, assuming that the friend exists of course :D
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Elaborate ruse PVR, but i'll go along with it as i'm £75 better of as of this morning! :D
 
off topic, how is the car otherwise and any pics?

I'm considering one of these for a daily drive as it's a decent fun car, and wondered how you're finding it?

thanks
 
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