Sadly, if you'd bought a Kia C'eed with proper maintenance history you'd get the balance of Kia's 7-year warranty - ie another 5 years of manufacturer's warranty - but they don't cover wear/tear items either, I don't think any warranty covers that.

Has this car been serviced at all?

3 month warranty is a red herring unless its gone over 100k, the cars still under makers warranty...unless lack of servicing?

Good thing is you'll be able to do the brakes and filters yourself for under £100 the lot, and maybe the clutch too for around another ton or so.

Edited by gordonbennet on 02/07/2012 at 15:35

Clutches and brakes are always a nightmare to argue.

For example, for 7 years on the trot up until 2 years ago a group of freinds and me would buy a car and take it straight to the Nurburgring.

A couple of them came back absolutely thrashed to death with slipping clutches, brakes which had caught fire, basically very abused by 4 blokes racing it for 3 days.

In our case we always bought at auction and resold at auction (pity the poor buyer but hey ho) but had we bought at a dealer would we have been right to take it back and demand new clutch and brakes?

Probably not!

Under Sale Of Goods Act, faults occurring prior to 6 months of ownership are deemed to have been present at purchase unless the retailer can prove that they were not.

The only problem is that if the retailer refuse then you will need to go to court.

Good luck

That's all very well but you'd need to argue that brakes and a clutch were not wearable items and you haven't used them in 6 months. They are and are not even covered under a new car warranty.

However, obviously if it packs up down the road from buying it, that is slightly different!