Used Car Warranty Warning

[paul_honthy]

After a recent personal incident with used car warranty i thought i'd mention it to everyone just to remind you to REALLY question the sales man about what the warranty covers and what the MAXIMUIM CLAIMS LIABILITY LIMIT is when thinking about buying a motor from a garage.

At this point i want to say it isn't the warranty company that i have the grievance with but the garage that i bought the car from.I won't mention names but when buying the car from this garage i was assured more than 4 times that the warranty covered engine,gearbox,turbo,transmission etc etc.

I then paid to extend the warranty to 12 months to insure hassle free motoring by avoiding wallet destroying repair bills.I can live with a motors that have problems but like most i hate the repair bills.

2 months on i started to have problems with the g/box."No problem" i thought coz im covered by the warranty.However after a phone call to the warranty company i was told "your policy doesn't cover the G/box"

HOWEVER this isn't the problem because the garage eventually phoned the WC and sorted the cover out.The problem is that the warranty is limited to JUST £300 per claim.That doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of the repair bills on a scoob.

I should have spent more time asking the sales man about the full in's and out's of the warranty but i was too bloody set on buying the scoob that i had my heart set on.Personally i think its a joke that a Jap Import Specialist who has hundreds of jap motors for sale only supplies what i can only describe as a pathetic excuse for a warranty.

Trading Standards are dealing it with it at the moment but im not holding my breath.[]

  Do i feel like a right fool? -YES

  Do i feel angry and p**sed off? -YES

  Do I have a large repair bill to pay at the end of the week? -YES

 Do I want to sell the motor? - NO CHANCE!!!!!!!!![]

 

 

[paul_young2]

Don,t you  just love how they manage to wangle out of everything,

Keep pushing them threaten to EXPOSE them to the media,they don,t like up them !!!

[paul_honthy]

If i'd bought the car up in Scotland i would have been in his face every day till he had sorted it but as it happens the garage is south yorkshire way so a lot of hassle to see the guy in person,and we all know how easy it is to be fobbed off over the phone.

[RA Dunk]

i bought mine with a seemingly 6 month  FULL PARTS AND LABOUR

warranty , five months later my radiator  $h!T its self so i took

it back expecting to get it replaced at no cost..the garage refused to

cover it and charged me the best part of £300 quid to replace it

[paul_honthy]

let me guess mate they said it was damaged and not parts failure?

[RA Dunk]

yea think it was summing like that didnt really notice as i was busy picking up my dummy which i had just spat out []

well he shafted himself in the end as i was eying up a JDM STI parked

in his showroom at the time and was thinking about a trade in on it but

due to him not comming across with his side of the deal i never bought

it

so he shafted me for just under £300 quid but he shafted himself out of the  thousands he would have made on the STI []

[paul_honthy]

I don't have a limit on how many times i can claim so every little thing that can be claimed will be.it just makes me so mad how easily they can take a serious amount of cash off you then as soon as your out the door they don't give a damn.RIGHT BUNCH OF COWBOYS!!!!!!![:@]

[scoobyseller555]

£300 claim limit m8 is crap,when you can put a £1000 claim limit on for an extra £30.

Gav

[paul_honthy]

Even Bill up at Greers was surprised that it was limited to £300.the whole thing has left me with a real sore head!!