My friend recently offered us her old car at mates rates, basically an 05 plate car for £350. She is swapping to a motability car as her DD is severely disabled and needed a car which her new wheelchair could fit in. My friend was anxious about having tyre kickers round and as a single parent with no mechanical knowledge she was keen to sell to a friend rather than have strangers round. We were lucky enough to be offered first refusal.
We decided it would be a good idea to buy the car to replace DPs. DPs car is 11yrs old with 200k on the clock. it's still on the original clutch and has cost us a huge amount in repairs over last couple of years. Its scruffy inside and to be honest, the next big repair bill on it will be make or break. New car has 50k on the clock and is very tidy, not to mention newer, cheaper to tax and insure.
So we now have new car on the driveway, awaiting the tax disc as it's had to be re registered as a petrol car as it was previous exempt due to disability. DP has now got cold feet and wants to sell it. There is nothing wrong with it, he's just taken against it as it's a Peugeot. I'm fuming. We were lucky to be offered first refusal and I know there were a lot of her other friends interested. I'm particularly angry as he intends to profit from it. Friend is a lone parent on IS and if we don't actually use the car ourselves I feel we have taken the piss out of her generosity.
AIBU or is it a case of once the deal is done it's ours to do with as we please? I see my lovely friend regularly and I'm going to be put in a really awkward position if she asks where it is.