January 2010
Hi guys
Can anyone help me out with my rights?
I ordered a Hyundai i30 under scrappage on 0% finance. It was a very good deal. Too good, in fact, as the dealership has just called saying they are withdrawing from it.
I paid £500 deposit, both they and I signed vehicle order form, etc.
This is the first time I've bought a new car and don't know my rights - do these things happen?
Thanks in advance
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Hi,
Wondering if anyone can give me a few pointers please.
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In reply to Bill Payer:
It does happen, and there have been cases posted on this forum.
In reply to Cheddar:
;-) The one definitive thing about legal views is that they are never definitive.
Even the Lords (now the "Supreme Court") can get overruled on some matters by the highest court of the land, that land of course being the EU.
Back to the OP:
Hyundai have a new scheme to replace the scrappage offers, and Hyundai HQ is keen to keep all its old and future customers sweet, so the OP may still get his deal.
The following is an extract from a real contract's T&C by company X:
1 If you cancel this contract otherwise than in circumstances permitted by this contract or fail to take delivery of, and make payment for, the vehicle at the agreed time, or if no time is agreed within 14 days of X giving written notice requiring you to take delivery, then:
(a) your deposit will be forfeited and you will be responsible to X for any loss of profit and other reasonable and foreseeable losses which we may suffer;
(b) X will be entitled to resell the vehicle to a third party without giving notice to you of its intention to resell.
2 If X is in breach of its contract to deliver the vehicle to you, you will likewise be entitled to seek recovery of your deposit and your reasonable and foreseeable losses which you have incurred as a result.
3 If X is unable to supply a vehicle for some reason which is beyond its reasonable control, then X may by notice in writing to you cancel this contract without penalty. Any deposit on the vehicle paid by you will be refunded in full. You will remain responsible under the contract.
4 If the contract is cancelled as a result of a breach of the contract by you or as a result of X being unable to supply the vehicle for a reason beyond its reasonable contract, then any agreement by X to take a vehicle in part exchange will also be cancelled, unless the part-exchange vehicle has already been sold by X, in which case the price obtained by the sale (less payments we have made to settle the outstanding finance on the vehicle), will be paid to you.