I've been incredibly dim and wonder if anyone with consumer law experience could give me some advice on how to get out of this situation. Short timeline below:
A month ago I bought a used car (kia) from an established (but not main) dealer 250 miles away.. Asked loads of questions but forgot to ask about service history.
Car was delivered on 2nd March. All good, until that evening, I check the service history and there is nothing other than the most recent stamp (feb 21) in there. Its a 4 year old car so should, in theory have 3 years left on the Kia warranty.
Email the dealer that night saying this car has no service history and therefore no warranty. Under the distance selling regs I need you to take the car back.
We speak the following day, dealer says its fine, there is history, we know it was service in 2018 and 2019, we'll get a new book sent round the dealers and get it sent on to you
2.5 weeks later, I had heard nothing so chased them last week. By this time the car has also started to develop a gearbox problem
Dealer is like oh yeah I'm just sending the new book to the first dealer (ie nothing has happened in 2.5 weeks) but he also advised the warranty would be fine for anything that isn't a consumable and that I should book the car in with my local kia dealership for checking.
Rang my local dealer this morning, explained the situation and they were like, no, you have no warranty if there's no proof of service history (kia have nothing online). So now I get worried, ring both dealers who had supposedly done the services. The first one is legit (2018), second one have no record of the car.
So now the dealer who sold me the car is supposedly talking to Kia (presumably only cos he now knows he's been found out and is trying to get them to honour warranty).
Any advice on what I should do? Other shoot myself in the head for being so dim 