To cut a long story short-ish...
About a month ago, our car broke down on the way back from Wales and we had to be towed by the AA - we took it to a garage that had been recommended to us by a couple of taxi drivers as we were needing to get taxis to work while it was knackered.
We bought the part that the AA guy had told us had gone, and took it to the garage to be fitted. This took over a week, and the day after we got it back, it blew up, also completely wrecking the engine.
We then had to buy another of the same part, plus a whole engine, which were delivered to the garage, took 2 weeks to fit and we got the car back on Tuesday this week. On Wednesday, it broke down on the way home from work.
The car is back at the garage again. The mechanic won't answer the phone, we have no idea what's happening with it and I'm absolutely at my wits end.
We've had to spend over £2k on parts and labour in 3 weeks - we've had to borrow this money from DP's friend and my mum, plus almost £300 in taxis. Neither of us are on a particularly high income and this has absolutely crippled us.
Can we do anything? Surely the mechanic has some responsibility to fix this asap with no further cost to us?
Can anyone advise? I could cry, honestly.
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to think this is completely out of order? Car related....
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TalisaMaegyr · 14/03/2014 15:06
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