Hi
My wife and I bought a 10 year old BMW this week that we found on Autotrader and we bought through a small dealer.
We went and viewed the car and haggled over cosmetics, getting some scratches and the alloys repaired cosmetically etc and managed to get £500 off the selling price of 4K However...
The Invoice we were given is a 'Trade Sales Invoice' and it has terms in it that say the car is sold without any additional warranty and there was an additonal handwritten note which goes further and say 'no warranty, sold as seen'. We missed these details and when I noticed them I rang them up and had to argue about the warranty which had been advertised as '3 months' on Autotrader. They were adament that was part of the deal and I was 200% positive it wasn't as we simply would not have done it. In the end they are posting us a 3 month Warranty to cover us via a third party and apologised for their (deliberate) mistake.
Then... I noticed at the top of the Invoice was my name with 'Cars Ltd' added. So its a fraudulent contract albeit with my name at the start - As it happens I do have a Ltd company but this guy didn't know that so he made it up.
Our next step was to get the car checked out anyway but now our guard is up. It's an illegal contract in that he composed amendements, slipped them through, probably distracting us and he made up my company name. (My actual company name is a completely different but it was never mentioned that I am a profeissional and he would have thought its a private purchase by a man and wife).
There was also an accident repair contained within the paperwork. It was a repair by an Authorised BMW dealer and after calling the dealership it seems to have been a repair to bodywork mostly cosmetic But... My friend who had also looked at this ad said it had not been listed with some sort of 'category D'? I am not worried about the actual Dealer repaired work but technically it appears it had not been listed properly. The ad is now gone (can we get a copy from Autotrader?)
So what do you all think? It's clear they are trying to avoid any protection we might have through our consumer rights. We could just give the car back but we did get a good price. Where do we stand after 3 months, once the warranty expires, does the fraudulent invoice/contract matter after 3 months?
Many thanks in advance for any advice. Its Saturday and we bought the car on Wednesday.
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