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Offline Tommyd

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Re: bought a golf, now its broke
« Reply #10 on: 06 March 2011, 16:46 »
yeah i spoke to him today. and as u can image he said there was nothing wrong in his opinion. i litterally done 30miles in it before it broke  :cry:
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Offline danny_p

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Re: bought a golf, now its broke
« Reply #11 on: 06 March 2011, 16:56 »
for futcher referance.

oil light means STOP NOW IT'S f**kED. 

piston melting out means something really wrong multipul failures for the managment to allow somethign that nasty to happen or a really sh!t remap.

i'd get you ecu checked over by someone like R tech  just to be sure that somemone hasn't loaded up a really shonky map in the past that caused the fail then ether have a good map put on it or revert back to a std one.   

i allways take my diagnostic kit when looking at cars now and mates often borrow it, if the vendor won't let you scan for fault codes  don't buy it end off
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Offline Wayne

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Re: bought a golf, now its broke
« Reply #12 on: 06 March 2011, 20:36 »
Private sale = no comeback, I have been down that road before.
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Offline tech1889

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Re: bought a golf, now its broke
« Reply #13 on: 06 March 2011, 20:50 »
love that mk2 towing mk4 pic should have been the calender cover this year !!  :smiley:
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Offline AudiA8Quattro

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Re: bought a golf, now its broke
« Reply #14 on: 06 March 2011, 22:09 »
Which oil light was on, the yellow or red?
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Offline dom

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Re: bought a golf, now its broke
« Reply #15 on: 06 March 2011, 22:19 »
Ooops :undecided:
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Offline Andy P

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Re: bought a golf, now its broke
« Reply #16 on: 07 March 2011, 07:47 »
There is comeback. When something is sold it's got to be "fit for purpose" a mate of mine bought a 500bhp skyline GTR which blew up the next day. He took the bloke to court and got a full rebuild out of him.
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Offline AudiA8Quattro

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Re: bought a golf, now its broke
« Reply #17 on: 07 March 2011, 15:05 »
Private sales are pretty much sold as seen, i doubt there will be any come back.
A trade sell has to fit for the purpose.
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Offline Wayne

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Re: bought a golf, now its broke
« Reply #18 on: 07 March 2011, 15:14 »
Quote from: Andy P on 07 March 2011, 07:47
There is comeback. When something is sold it's got to be "fit for purpose" a mate of mine bought a 500bhp skyline GTR which blew up the next day. He took the bloke to court and got a full rebuild out of him.

Sale of goods act and fit for purpose have little meaning with a private sale.  :smiley:


Quote from: AudiA8Quattro on 07 March 2011, 15:05
Private sales are pretty much sold as seen, i doubt there will be any come back.
A trade sell has to fit for the purpose.

Yep, private sales have little comeback.
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Offline CCGTI

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Re: bought a golf, now its broke
« Reply #19 on: 07 March 2011, 16:16 »
private sale means no comeback, even if he had trade insurance selling from home i still think u have no comeback, if you looked round it and never suggested anything to him befor parting with the cash, no come back

You could still register a complaint with TS
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