Car Missold by Dealer - Refund offered - But options?

[metallica121]

Brief issue

Purchased an "Approved Used" car from a main dealer

The dealer mis-sold service history and warranty

Promised FSH but car has partial history with 6 years history missing.
Warranty is invalid as the condition for warranty needs car to have service done annually.

After threatening with legal action, they are offering a full refund. No apology or admission of mistake. Rather praising their ethos.

However I did not ask for a full refund. My offer was to refund some amount to reflect the true value as the car is not worth what I paid for - due to partial history and no warranty. In my proposals I have asked 20% of the price I paid as refund.

I do not ideally prefer to return the car as I like it and it does not have any issue and it will be hassle and additional expenses (parking permit, insurance etc) to get another car. Plus the time I will be without a car.

Is there any ground for me to take this to small claims court for a partial refund OR
will the court go against me suggesting that as the dealer offered full refund, I should have taken it?

I am still within the 30 day period and I made some payment with the credit card.

If the broad consensus is that I should take the offer for full refund, what other actions can I take so that car dealers do not get away with such outright lies which cause unnecessary trouble to customers.

Thanks

Personally I would take the refund. If you really want the car you can say you are happy to accept a refund or x% off. They have a choice of which remedy to offer you. Get your money back and leave a factual review.

Just to add - I am aware of the right to reject but I was ideally hoping to keep the car and get a certain % money from them which I feel I over paid due to mis-selling

However they are rejecting that and offering a full refund - makes sense from their perspective as they will sell the car at same price or higher to another customer.

Take the refund. It may not have obvious issues now but might further down the line,

Thank you

Just accept the refund and start afresh. You should be pleased they have offered that, let alone an apology. I would snap their hand off.

There is no way you are going to win at small claims court when you have been offered a full refund. You are frankly taking the piss to want to keep the car and get 20% off the purchase price refunded to you because of a service history. Take the refund and move on with your life.

Id take the refund but I do not think you are taking the piss. At all. You bought a car under warranty. They lied, so the warranty is invalid. That is a big deal. It sucks though. Leave them bad reviews absolutely everywhere once the money is back in the bank.

many thanks for the suggestions

I have decided to take the refund.

It is inconvenient to again go through the process of finding another car and it is a shame that dealers can just get away inconveniencing people and not penalised for lying