Do I have grounds to take this car sales person to a small claims court?

[SecretStash]

He sold me a car less than 3 months ago.

It’s had a whole bunch of crap wrong with it.
But the main things being that the underneath back end is so rusty that it “looks like it’s been in the sea for 5 years and won’t pass it’s next MOT” direct quote from my garage, I’ve had a look underneath and boy, can I see what they mean.

The speedometer works intermittently, which he apparently fixed. Theres loads of small things not working.

He’s offering to fix it all, but my argument is that he can’t fix the rust. He can coat in something that might get me an extra year out of it (if I’m lucky) but otherwise it’s nearing the end of its life because of it.

I want my money back. I would never have bought it had I known there was terminal rust, interestingly there’s nothing about it on the MOT, no advisory.

He’s saying his mechanic can fix it.

I’m saying I want to go through small claims, he’s saying he will defend it.

Reddington fine. So well it with the issues made known. The customer has a right to know the shit that they are buying, no matter what the age or price. But to make out that it has no problems and ignore the ones that it has is absolutely not ok.

One of the wheels is hanging off and needs a bearing. Also the speedometer doesn’t work. And the rear light doesn’t work. And the rear screen wash doesn’t work. Some of these issues which are MOT failures, were current during its last MOT.... more dodgy as fuck information.

Some small issues would probably be fine but it does seem like a lot of different ones and some which seriously affect the usability of the car. You should be pushing to have those faults which make it undriveable rectified, maybe give them one final chance in writing before legal action.

I’ve been pushing for 2 months. I asked him several times today to give my money back and take the car back.
He refused, he’s now ignoring me so I’ve just had to fork out £70 for small claims.

Sounds like that’s the only thing you can do. I’d say you have a good chance of winning, enforcement could be another story though.