Hello.

I bought a car on the 18th May 2012. I saw the ad on ebay. It was listed saying there was a fault with the airbag as the airbag light was present on the dashboard. Because of this, the price was reduced. it stated in the ad that because of this no warranty is given or implied and priced to clear.

I went to the dealer who let me inspect the car and take it for a test drive. He explained to me that the airbag light had come on whilst being stood and offered no explanation other than that.

I was happy to proceed with this as i know a mechanic who could fix this problem. I bought the car mostly cash as i had it on me and some on my debit card.

I drove the car home (around 60 miles) and did not encounter any problems.

The day after, i drove for around 30 miles in total in seperate trips. On my last trip, the car made a jolt and went into limp mode. An error message appeared on the dashboard saying check gearbox. I stopped the car when i could safely and turned off the engine. I waited a couple of minutes and started the car again with the fault gone. I continued on my journey (around 8 miles).

The day after i went shopping to my local supermarket. As i was coming out of the car park the car did the same thing again, error message saying Check Gearbox and loss of power. I did the exact same as i did the night before and the fault dissapeared. I then went straight home.

I booked the car into my local garage today (monday) and had a diagnostic check performed. The fault codes that came up said that i had a problem with the gearbox due to lack of pressure. The garage advised me to run the car for 2-3 days as codes could have been stored for a long time. He said if it happened again, to return and have the codes checked again to come to a diagnosis.

I went out this evening to the shop in the car and travelled approx 2 miles and it happened again. I will return to the garage to have the fault codes read again.

I spoke to the dealer earlier on today before the last incident and he said there was nothing he could do. He said it it had been sold at retail, then he would have offered a warranty. I'm unsure what this means. The invoice i have for the car sale says on it that the car was sold as per ebay ad, sold with no warranty given or implied due to faults and price.

The dealer said he had driven the car previously for 200 miles and the fault didn't show up and said if there was a fault at the time of sale then it would have presented itself during the time he drove it.

My question is, do i have any rights about this? I have looked at the sale of goods act and i believe that the car is not satisfactorily fit for its purpose.

I feel that he wont be very open to discuss this based on the conversation i had with him today.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.