Yesterday I drove over 200 miles to trade in my nine-year-old 125,000-mile 1.9DTi Scenic for a three-year-old Mazda 2 1.4D with 18,000 miles on the clock at a large franchised dealer, and the new car had an EGR failure after 60 miles. The car was transported to my home garage, who maintained a previous Mazda 2 1.4D which I owned until last week. They cannot even look at it for a week. I am now stuck out in the sticks with no way of getting to work etc, although the supplying garage say that they will "sort it out".

The car I bought was sold with full service history (Mazda do theirs electronically) and it only had a bill for a Mazda service at one year old and at an independent garage at two years old, so perhaps no goodwill there. The dealer will not consider even paying for a couple of days' car hire as a goodwill gesture and the EGR repair could be as high as £3000, and I have nothing in writing to suggest that the supplying dealer will pay in full. Do I reject the vehicle as unfit for purpose? If so how do I get my car back and theirs back to them? And I still can't get to work....