Hello all,

After getting close to buying the following Phaeton:-

http://briskoda.net/general-car-chat/look-what-ive-bought/145673/

It developed a Gearbox fault which the Canturbury VW dealer wanted paying for and the original owner refused. The VW dealership agreed to go half on the cost, if the owner agreed to stump of the other half, and he has continued to refuse. (The guy is a multimillionaire owner of a IT company!)

The owner has now decied to take the car and try and sell it privately or through the auctions to anyone who would not know about the faulty gear box.

Cross roads motors have now billed the owner for all the prep work they did before I was due to pick it up, so they have been good.

Reg number is KY06 RKV, so if anyone out there drops on this car, it will have a £6000 repair bill pending for the gearbox, not included in the price!!

BE WARNED!!

Please forward on to all car forums if you can, otherwise someone will end up with a very expensive and useless toy.

Sorry it didn't work out for you, and Crossroads get paid for the prep work.

Lucky escape there then matey!

Looking for another?

Lucky escape there then matey!

Looking for another?

Absolutely! Just that things are very quiet, and not even a single V10 on Autotrader....

Someone will buy it, warranty it and then claim, and we'll all end up paying for it!

Or else it'll go to www.webuyanycar.com

If you put a private plate on a car, will the V5 or an HPI check reveal the original registration?

If you put a private plate on a car, will the V5 or an HPI check reveal the original registration?

Can't recall about the V5 but I am sure the HPI would fund a trail

It would say there had been a registration change, but not declare the previous reg.

Lucky escape there mate.

Shouldn't the RAC inspection have picked this up though?

Glad you never got lumbered with it

Carl:thumbup:

Lucky escape there mate.

Shouldn't the RAC inspection have picked this up though?

Glad you never got lumbered with it

Carl:thumbup:

The RAC inspection was clear, but it looks like the fault had been cleared prior to the inspection, and re-occured just before I was due to pick the car up

Just goes to show that even after an RAC inspection or similar there are just some faults that they can't identify and that it isn't the last word on the car being perfect.

Lucky escape anyway... only thing is that some poor person will end up with it and not know then have a heafty repair bill from phaeton specialist garage!

If he's a millionaire why not just get the thing fixed then get it sold! Tight ****! Or reduce the price to include the repair costs.

Phil

Or is the owner really a millionaire .......? You'd be amazed at how many millionaires on paper run very close to the breadline with their day to day cash flow. Usually because most of their money is tied up in capital.

Can't recall about the V5 but I am sure the HPI would fund a trail

One way you can tell on a V5 is that the new number after the private plare is removed is usually non-transferrable.

[edit] just noticed someone's said a change is declared. I'm pretty sure that's correct.

HPI shows a trail for sure: Our Lupo has had a private plate on in the past and that shows on the HPI.

I was just thinking that it would be quite easy to spend £250 on a plate and put it through an auction/dealer hoping the fault doesn't show. A plate change on a car like this wouldn't arouse suspicions. Unless of coure the HPI dates the plate change as a week before.

A lot cheaper that paying for a repair

If he's a millionaire why not just get the thing fixed then get it sold! Tight ****! Or reduce the price to include the repair costs.

Phil

Been trying that, but he wants full price for the car. Ive tried to offer the value minus the repair, but he is even avoiding Crossroads motors as well.

The dealer at Crossroads wants it gone, and its in the way and has even had to move it to his house because its taking up so much room. They have even asked the owner to come and get it, and have had no reply.....

An RAC car check won't flag up any faults, dont know if the full inspection would.

The owner sounds like a money grabbing twonk whose actions prob would come back to bite him on the rear end!! Remember what goes around comes around.

Chances are the gearbox fault will rear it's head again and he won't be able to sell it.

If I was the owner of crossroads I'd leave it parked in a street, and wait for the owner to pick it any damage incurred would be the owners fault.........