Audi RS 4 - Dealer selling dangerous cars.

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Thu 14 Feb 2019 16:00
Audi RS 4 - Dealer selling dangerous cars. - beershark
Last November I bought a used RS4 from a specialist dealer. I paid £35,000 for it. Within 48 hours a serious brake problem developed. The work has cost me £4000. The dealer denied any responsibility. I am suing. As part of the background research I am doing for my solicitor,
I found a website showing a review on the same dealer that had been submitted by somebody unknown to me who bought a car from the same dealer at about the same time. This persons car had had a faulty fuel line repaired very badly. This caused diesel fuel to spurt out all over his hot engine. Once again the dealer denied responsibility.
Given the very dangerous nature of the cars sold by this dealer, is it likely that the police might be interested ?
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Thu 14 Feb 2019 16:32
Audi RS 4 - Dealer selling dangerous cars. - Brit_in_Germany

Sounds more like a trading standards matter.

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Thu 14 Feb 2019 16:39
Audi RS 4 - Dealer selling dangerous cars. - gordonbennet

Agreed, its trading standards and/or DVSA.

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Thu 14 Feb 2019 17:42
Audi RS 4 - Dealer selling dangerous cars. - SLO76
Out of curiosity what was the fault exactly? I’m curious as to what cost £4K.

As an advisory for the future I’d suggest only buying expensive and highly complex metal like this from main dealer approved stock. The bulk of expensive cars that slip past them usually have some issue that’s seen them rejected and punted on to another dealer or straight to auction.
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Thu 14 Feb 2019 17:48
Audi RS 4 - Dealer selling dangerous cars. - Big John

Your consumer rights are in you favour during the first 6 months

www.theaa.com/car-buying/legal-rights

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Thu 14 Feb 2019 21:28
Audi RS 4 - Dealer selling dangerous cars. - legacy95
Never mind consumer law, it is a criminal offence to sell a dangerous car. Check out the citizen advice web site. If it was truly dangerous the police should be interested....but of course they won't be. Lol
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Thu 14 Feb 2019 22:18
Audi RS 4 - Dealer selling dangerous cars. - bathtub tom

Shouldn't the OP have returned the car to the original dealer to allow them to effect a repair?

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Thu 14 Feb 2019 22:55
Audi RS 4 - Dealer selling dangerous cars. - sammy1

Serious bit of kit this, probably has the ceramic brakes to cost this much to fix. Bound to have had a test drive before buying so the car must have stopped OK then?

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