January 2010
hi, i bought a car that was advertised on autotrader in august and sold it on in september,
the guy i bought it from only had the green slip from the v5. he said he hadnt owned it long,hence no full v5.
The mans wife has now contacted the person i sold it to.She says her husband had no right to sell it.the police are involved on her behalf. I have an invoice/receipt from the guy that says he is the owner and it states he is entitled to sell it .
The police are asking me for a copy of this document,
The problem is if i give the police a copy of the invoice it will increase thier chances of prosecuting the guy for theft.
If they succesfully prosecute him have i then bought stolen goods?
The police agree that i wont be prosecuted for receiving etc.
However could i then be liable for the value of the goods in a civil court ?
Could the wife recover the car from the person who i sold it to ?
Does the fact that I bought it legitamettly and then sold it on have any bearing on the case.
In simple terms if its proven that the guy stole the car from his wife ,or at least sold it without her knowledge,can title on the car, or ownership of the car pass to any one else.
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The familiar old anti-diseasal rant. I'm utterly convinced that over the life of a car a modern diesels cost much more than their petrol engined cousins to run. Yeah sure there are some cracking diesels out there, I know. If you're a high mileage company car driver who'll get a car for 2 or 3 years, blast it up and down motorways and then throw them away, the only concern is diesel biased BIK and fuel costs (if you have to pay them.) again diesels win that argument.
The bottom line is the compression ignition engine is a rough old dirty beast running on rough old dirty fuel, successive generations of diesel cars have ever increasing layers of complexity to try to make a silk purse out of a pig's ear:- Complex or active engine mounts, DFP filters, anti-pollutant additive systems, ever increasing fuel injection pressures, dual mass flywheels, the necessity for a turbocharger. These things make the cars inherently unreliable as a long-term prospect unless you keep them dealer serviced - practically forever and when things do go wrong expect big repair bills.
What looks good on paper in the motoring rags for a new car isn't particularly what will be good for Mr punter with an 8 year old car on his hands. Before all this plant food emissions nonsense, cars could be judged on their actual relative merits ? the whole argument has been clouded. The punter loses out, manufacturers get to sell complex cars that require dealer support, the government makes a mint by levying huge taxes on what should be cheap fuel until it costs the consumer more than costlier to produce petrol!
Older diesels were what they were, simple, rough and reliable machines. My friend's 504 had been in the family 25 years and was still running fine with 420,000 on the clock when they scrapped it due to tin worm. In order to make these inherently fuel efficient cars viable as a replacement for petrols, they had to be cleaned up and quietened down ? these two requirements have turned simple reliable diesels into complex liabilities. Discuss! :-) Read more
Anyone out there who has covered massive mileage with their modern diesels (150000 miles+) with
no expensive problems I'd like you to prove me wrong. Set my mind at rest!
My 'runabout' car is a Fiat Marea Weekend - 2002, with the 1.9 JTD engine. Bought for next to nothing with 200,000km on the clock and now has > 270,000km on the clock.
Total repairs so far:
EGR valve at 240,000km. Total repair bill including cleaning all the soot out: 70 euros (Spain)
Admittedly this car doesn't have a DPF, but it is common rail.
Part of the problem is that the UK driver pays silly money for common / simple repairs like an EGR valve - I've read some FIAT owners paying as much as £300 to have it replaced. Here in Spain we have so many diesel cars, we have lots of independent diesel specialists that only diagnose and fix diesel cars.
I put this over on discussion yesterday, but now it's moved about three screens down without a single reply, I thought I'd try over here.
I got my cheap tyres the other day, I'll only be using them off-road. Made by Event. Apparently a Dutch company but likely imports from China.
One's got a red dot and a yellow dot. I understand the red takes priority over the yellow and is mounted adjacent to a notch or groove in the rim indicating relative high and low points.
T'other's got two yellows. I assume either is placed adjacent to the valve?
Both have got a white dot on the shoulder of the tread. I can't find any reference to such marks. Any ideas what they indicate?
Both have a 'DOT' code OU. Again, any ideas please? My research suggests they're American marks indicating date and place of manufacture and should consist of three or four digits/letters.
Both tyres have obviously been mounted on wheels from the rust marks around the lip, but appear to have never been used. They still have the moulding pips and coloured stripes!
They came from a large industrial estate unit that must have had tens of thousands of tyres stored there. One guy seemed to be working his way through one pile and sorting them into two other piles, presumably suitable for sale and not. It lends some weight to their story that a source is spare wheels that have never been used. Written-off cars perhaps?
I did wonder about the fire risk and what local residents would think. Isn't there some kind of limit on storing tyres?
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Found it!
I turned the tyres over and found the four digit code on the other side - doh!
I'm struggling to get new rear wipers for my W-reg (Japanese made) Yaris. Lots of places sell them for the newer versions (French made) but no-one seems to stock them for the older one, expect the local dealer who wants £££ for one. Any advice where I can buy one, or am I stuck paying dealer price? Read more
recently bought a rear blade of ebay. 2002 1.4d4d jap it fitted ok .but its not a perfect fit, so i guess its a copy.
the cat on my recently bought '04 1.6fsi has just gone and ive been quoted about £420 for a new one. is this a fair price? ive only had the car 3 months and it flew through its MOT in november. is there any way i could get it done cheaper? Read more
I assume there is some mechanical fault with it (rattling or been bashed). Unusual for them to fail otherwise at this age. If it is just a bit of a rattle I would be inclined to leave it.
Another blow to UK Jobs - Hungary benefits while Wales suffers.
Plant is 20 years old and is deemed uncompetitive in the market. Read more
I also forgot to say how sorry i feel for all the Bosch employees at the plant who will lose their jobs.
Just had confirmation my Mondeo has sold through a contact without advertising.
Almost two years ago I bought the 2001 Ghia X Estate 2.0 petrol on a whim from friends who'd changed to a people carrier. It's been a bit of a time out from my usual Citroen diesels but what an excellent used car for anyone in the £1k - £7k range.
The only real motivation for selling it were the fuel bills at 30mpg average. A smaller factor was the over sharp ride on its 17" alloys with 50 profile tyres.
Apart from that it has been pretty well all good. Good refinement, comfortable seats (elec leather) with loads of space in the rear too. We've used it to move twice.. the rear loadspace in the estate is huge. For me just about every control was in the right place and easy to operate without distraction from the road.
Lots of toys on the Ghia X that actually increase driving comfort and efficiency.
No reliability issues. Just servicing, aircon re-gass/adjust, tyres, a wheel bearing and track rod end.... all routine stuff as I took it from around 85k to 110k. The 6-CD changed did fail as they often do but I never bothered to replace it.
A very strong engine that never missed a beat. Very effective auto climate control.
Depreciated just £400 in 2yrs.
Wouldn't hesitate to say get one if they suit your needs. Read more
BTW I didn't even have to sell the Mondeo as such. Called into the local garage who've always serviced it to get some plates made up to take off its reg no and the guys found a buyer in hours as they knew it to be a straight car.
Or let Granny too near the mangle eh Ted!!
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Many years ago I spent some time working in Ziare. As you can imagine the roads were pretty poor so most of the company cars were LRs. A few of the guys decided to have a day out and drive into some of the more remote areas. On journeys like this two LRs would be taken an driven in convoy. Driving along a stretch of road they suddenly came across a large crater in the road, the lead LR drove over the crater, while the following driver decided to try and swerve around.
Unfortunately, he swerved too hard and too fast, and on clipping the edge of the crater the LR rolled over. A guy in the back was not wearing his seatbelt and suffered a large gash to his leg. Being many miles from a doctor, this was a serious situation.
Following this incident the company made everyone complete an off road driving course.
As 4x4s are generally large, heavy, specialised vehicles, should they be in a class of their own that requires a special licence to drive like HGVs? Read more
Eh? So we agree then?
I think maybe it would have been better posted in the 4x4 bashing thread.
What you and the missus get up to with wet celery is no concern of mine, but hope you enjoy it none the less :)
How much do you want for yer 4x4?
Very recently, like yesterday, heard a strange feint whirring/rumbling from, I think, somewhere in the transmission. It is there for a while then disappears. The frequency of the sound is not affected by depressing the clutch and it diminishes with road speed - not engine speed.
Any offers regarding the source and cause? Thanks. Read more
I wouldn't worry about it, on of my XMs makes a noise like a tram at certain speeds but not generally in motorway driving, its done nearly 200,000 miles and I expect it will do at least another 100k.
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>>A bit unfair bathtub.
Sorry! An opportunity for a cheap laugh at someone else's expense.
However, you say you've bought fifteen cars in the last five years, two of which were not the sellers to sell. That means you're experiencing 'iffy' cars in more than fifteen per cent of your purchases. Do you think that's indicative of the market?
I doubt if I've owned fifteen cars in my forty-odd years of motoring (I tend to hang on to them for a good few years), so I'm not putting myself at as much risk as someone who makes more regular purchases. I've certainly walked away from many more than I've bought. Perhaps I've just been lucky.