A lot of the car supermarkets or trade centres, I can think of one giant one (!) inNW London for instance, charge extra for a warranty.
Does anyone know what ones position is if one buys without paying extra for a warranty, and a problem arises with the car after purchase.
I thought under current/recent consumer legislation there was some kind of "implied" warranty - does anyone know what that actually is ?
In a lot of these places you don't actually get to test drive the car before purchase, or one I ahve ben to you get a veryshort (5mins) and a few 100yds round the industrial estate, which only allows limited testing of the car, as you can't really get beyond 20mph.
Supposing for example 2 weeks later the headgasket blows, or you discover when driving home that actually the brakes aren't very good, the clutch clipping, the handbrake doesn't hold, or the auto gearbox starts jerking/hunting after 20mins driving.
Do you actually have any "comeback" ?
"Goods not of merchantable quality " ??
Does anyone have experience of having bought without warranty and had a problem, and what actually happened ?
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Hello
Used cars came with 3 months warranty if iam not mistaken.
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(iam not a mechanic)
Martin Winters
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You're mistaken.
What they do come with is the protection of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 and the Sale of Goods to Consumers Regulations 2002 (or something very similar).
SOGA applies where the purchaser does not deal in the course of a business, i.e., is not a trader and does not hold himself out as such. It implies terms into any contract that the goods are 'as described' (self-explanatory) 'fit for purpose' (a car could be driven legally and safely on the road and for any extraordinary purpose, e.g., if you asked for a van big enough to carry a particular pallet) and 'of satisfactory quality' which covers faults present at the time of sale and any latent defects.
You cannot contract out of SOGA (i.e., disapply the buyer's right to imply the above terms into the contracts) by virtue of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 and the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations (not sure of the date).
In addition to that there are the Sale of Goods to Consumers Regulations, which reverse the burden of proof in cases involving the sale of goods to consumers. When these Regulations apply (and again they cannot be disapplied IMO) it is for the seller to show that any fault that occurs within the first six months after the sale was not present at the time of sale, and not for the buyer to show that it was.
There is no three month time limit and there is no universal warranty, i.e., if you buy a £600 Escort and find that the internal boot release isn't working, the Court is very unlikely to find that the car was overall not of satisfactory quality, even if it would have been covered specifically under an additional warranty. That said, any warranty is in addition to your statutory rights and not instead of them, so decilning the warranty won't affect the important bits.
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.. Used cars came with 3 months warranty if iam not mistaken.
don't worry, you are not alone in holding this mistaken belief. there are many others on this forum who also believe in that myth.
the true state of affairs is exactly as outlined by davidhm above.
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Back onto cars now...after a long complain about drive boundary....
Anyway, if the car you're buying is from a Supermarket, which may means the cars is under 2/3 yrs old. Then the car is still under the car's manufacturer's waranty. If the car developed a fault you just treat it as you have bought it from a main dealer. So I don't think its necessary to buy additional cover from the Supermarket, UNLESS the cars is outside the manufcaturer's waranty.
However, you still need to check that the car is a UK spec, otherwise the UK manufacturer may not decline any waraty work. I remember that an imported VW Golf (from Spain) only have 1 yr manufactruer waranty.
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The place you are referring to told me it was 30 days. If you have any issues you can return it to get repaired.
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A lot of three year warranties in the UK have their third year provided via the dealer so if the car is imported, only 2 years apply. I bought an extended warranty when I bought a Ford Galaxy from Motorpoint a few years ago. It cost around £400 but it gave me superb peace of mind when the car started to go wrong, just as the Ford warranty had expired. I did eventually get Ford to repair the car themselves as a goodwill gesture and lend me a replacement whilst the work was carried out. I would also contact Warranty Direct to see how they compare with the Supermarket quote.
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