Hi all,

Just a word of warning. I've had a very bad experience buying from these dealers:

Deepdale Motors

Sir Tom Finney Way

Fulwood

Preston

Lancs

PR2 8AN.

They sold me what I've been told by my body shop, is a crashed and repaired car. If you want anymore details, PM me.

Thanks,

Rob

Have you been to trading standards. As far as i remember but i could be wrong usually am, a private individual does not in law have to tell you owt about the vehicle he is selling but a garage/business does. If your not happy ask for your money back, if they refuse go to trading standards.On a lighter note do you know wether it was declared a write off or just damaged but repairable, if its the latter you may have a problem there are literally thousands of nearly new cars that have been badly damaged but are still repaired because of there value. I think cars should be written off because of the damage and not the age but hey ho thats how it is. PS. I have bought written of by age cars years ago from insurance companys had them repaired profesionally ended up with a cheap car that i have run for years and they have been good. But i sold them cheap telling the buyer full history. Its when you pay market rate and your not told its totally wrong immoral and criminal in my opinion. Hope you get it sorted.

Fair enough to warn us,

but there is hardly anything wrong with accident damaged vehicles if properly repaired.

Was it properly repaired,?

Was it a Category C, D or F that is repaired, & which you should have been informed about?

If a Cat C, did it get a MOT then a VIC done & the CAT C lifted?

Was it them that repaired it?

george

Thanks for the replies...

The car was sold to me as, and I quote "Bob on"... It was only later that I discovered it had been involved in a drivers side three quarter impact. Wing badly "repaired" and noticeably vibrating on tickover, three wheels damaged and leaking air (still unresolved and been to an engineering firm to attempt a repair), a hole in the under body (under drivers seat), drivers side xenon bulb loose in housing. None of these are "life threatening" to the car itself but you don't pay top dollar for a car to discover this type of botch job, not to mention bare faced lies.... Be warned.

Rob

To be honest, none of the above issues with the car came to my attention on inspection or test drive and I happily took the car. They'd been cleverly disguised and the car "looked" great on the forecourt. Mechanically the car is sound but I was a very unhappy camper to say the least when I discovered that I'd been had.

I sent an email to Deedale Motors with the "news" that the car had been in a frontal impact, and that they must have known about it..... They didn't reply.

As I only discovered these issues with the car months after taking ownership and had the car back home in Ireland, they have gotten away with this.

Deepdale Motors.....Never again..

I think the post was worthwhile it teaches all a lesson do your homework before buying a used vehicle even if all the checks are clean ask to see the log book if you can ascertain who the previous owner/keeper was and you can make contact as mileage checkers do this should go someway to get you the facts although you may be p....ssed off when you find out what they got for it.The most important thing is to ask the dealer/seller if its had any damage done to it.I think a law should be passed so we can access the insurance data bases to see if a accident claim has ever been made against a particular regd number. But they wouldnt want that would they as all used damaged cars would be un-saleable.

The thing is,

more and more people now have accidents & do not Claim on their insurance & go for getting repairs done privately.

(on the QT)

So no Insurance claims or reported accident, record of damage or Category of Write Off logged,

there was not proper Vehicles Accident Damage Inspection, so no Category.

Its a need of change of Law or Legislation that is required.

Vehicle Repairers need to be Registered like MOT Stations

& keep records of Vehicles they do Accident Repair work on.

Information passed to the DVLA/VOSA.

(there will always be Kerbside Auto's tho, the Government have never sorted out Scrap Yards & cash in hand,

they just keep making announcements & noises)

Insurance Companies are no better these days at Tracking Vehicles they put back (allow to go back on the road) into the Trade through Salvage & Repairable.

They need to enforce their rules on Reporting Incidents, there is a clamp down happening with some right now.

So more might find that 'Fix it ourself', do not effect the NCB or Next Years Premium, coming back to bite them.

It is Buyer Beware still sadly.

Get a professional Inspection or a trusted friend that knows what they are looking at when buying used cars.

Still a lottery tho when buying anything.

george

I think the post was worthwhile it teaches all a lesson do your homework before buying a used vehicle even if all the checks are clean ask to see the log book if you can ascertain who the previous owner/keeper was and you can make contact as mileage checkers do this should go someway to get you the facts although you may be p....ssed off when you find out what they got for it.The most important thing is to ask the dealer/seller if its had any damage done to it.I think a law should be passed so we can access the insurance data bases to see if a accident claim has ever been made against a particular regd number. But they wouldnt want that would they as all used damaged cars would be un-saleable.

Edited 13 December, 201213 yr by Robbo Cop

...The thing is,

more and more people now have accidents & do not Claim on their insurance & go for getting repairs done privately.

(on the QT)

So no Insurance claims or reported accident, record of damage or Category of Write Off logged,

there was not proper Vehicles Accident Damage Inspection, so no Category.

...

+1

We've seen a car offered for px that clearly should never have been put back on the road (class B damage poorly repaired). The check came back as never written off.

The guy said he would take his car elsewhere.