I did ask about the condition of the bodywork and whether it had had any repairs and the salesman said not, he didn't even know that the paintwork had been touched when I first started asking about the respray and denied all possibility of it, until later in the day when he phoned back and said it had been done

Edited by bobbyn on 28/05/2011 at 11:23

Thanks for the advice.

The way I see it. I went to a main dealer to get an ORIGINAL low mile light use van with the usual dealer FSH, warrantied etc. If I wanted an abused workhorse I would have gone to a back street dealer where I would have expected to pick up a higher miled van for the age, that may have been resprayed and who knows what

I was secifically looking for a van that had not been used as a workhorse and supplied by a reputable main dealer. I always by all my used vehicles with this criteria.

Im not sure I agree with the workhorse view pinned on all commercial vehicles if it's been used by a trade and loaded up daily and bashed about etc then yes it is, if it's had light use and low miled then it should be in genuine original condition. This was sold under this guise, owned by a pharmecutical company, with very light use and well looked after.

I just feel this time I've put too much trust in a dealers product and I've had the wool pulled over my eyes and also because it's back to the same old opinion it's only a van it's a workhorse and anything goes it doesn't matter it's got a future of abuse and neglect

To me it's my business image I have three vehicles some quite old all kept immaculate and in excelent running order and never abused, this is the way I operate.

Cheers

It wasn't visible to me at the point of sale it was only after it rained that it became apparent that there was a colour difference in the roof and back door

What's concerning me more than the colour difference is that it was probably a blow over respray and that could be a problem in the future. With the cost of the paint being in the few hundred pound mark and then the labour for masking the whole vehicle and cleaning I cant see that they will have prepped the surface correctly if at all, as this is labour intensive and costly I know I've done it a few times with vehicles and also with narrow boats