What would you have done?

I would've said I know the bloke that used to own it.....................

Cheers Luke

G'day Stefan

I probably would have told them all the faults that the car had when you got rid of it..i dont think that would be considered as defaming the car yard.....

I always thought you were reasonably happy with the Patrol when you had it, up until just before you got rid of it anyway???

Cheers.....Borgy

Walk away. If the buyer of a 2nd hand car does his homework he'll ring the previous owner anyway then you can then give him the full history. If they don't ring they deserve a lemon. The dealer bought it off you in good faith so should at least give him the chance to sell it.
Cheers Craig...........

Hi Stefan, I would have told them. My mate traded his pajero in on a prado at a certain Toyota dealership. It had been rolled (only on its side) but not ridden off, it then copped a hail storm again not ridden off. Thn got ploughed up the rear on the M4 Again fixed. It was the later model shape exceed. Was a beautiful car when he got it new leather trim all the gear. I was just walking through the dealership he traded it in at a few months later and it was still there. An old couple were really interested in it. I walked up to them just before the salesman did and told the old couple dont touch it. The old fella then walked over to me at my car and wanted to know why so I filled him in on its history. He thanked me very much as it was probably going to be there last car for towing their van around. I felt good in myself for telling them so the old couple wouldnt end up with a bucket of sh#t due to the amount of panel repairs it had done. Send me an email of where its at. Would be interested to go and have a look and see what price they have on it. Regards Steve M

Just tell them and bugger the rules!!!!!

Stefan
There is no clear cut answer, you could tell them and then they tell the dealer trying to get some dollars off, and your the ass, or you dont and your the ass, as stated above, its a case of buyer beware out there, the old saying comes to mind.... secondhand means buying someone elses troubles....unfortunately today, some new cars are thesame trouble as used :( i would tend to hope that the dealer has made repairs and offered a warrenty
Andrew

What is wrong with looking after your fellow Australian ???

Tell the bloke and tell him what was wrong with it when YOU had it. You will sleep better if you help at least one person out.

Too many bush lawyers in here... :-)

I don't see a problem in telling prospective buyers the cars faults as long as you told the car dealership the same things when you sold it to them.

Can't have it both ways.

Stefan

My take on this is that you did the right thing. The vehicle no longer belonged to you and maybe the dealer had repaired what needed repairing.

I traded a Suzuki 4x4 in once and it sat in the car yard for a while. It was a good little car and it served us well but I gave it a rather hard time.

Then one day I stoped at a servo and there it was, in a shiny and well kept condition and being driven by a young lady. She said that it was the best little car she had ever owned. I din't have the heart to tell her that it had spent almost 4 hours submerged in a river once.


Cheers

My take is that you are not a party to any potential transaction and it is best left to them to sort it out.

But if you wanted to have the discussion then it would be only fair to include the dealer.

As always - CAVEAT EMPTOR...

Who cares? Even if you believe that you been done by yard owner and telling prospected buyer whole story (even adding something) you can rule them out, you still will do little harm to yard. You cannot watch each and every buyer anyway – surely they find buyer anyway. So who really cares? Unless for some reason you feel really deep sympathy to the pair and you really believe that your old car been so neglected.

Tale it easy.
Serg

Hi 12 times Dakar winner,
The relationship between your car and the Dakar winning (pampas pussies) Paj is about as close as your car and a VW toerag.

You DO NOT have a Dakar winning car Stefan!!!!!

Get a grip on yourself (pun intended) son, you seem to be trying your hardest to live up the Spanish slang word that Pajero means. LOL
Cheers mate, Colin.

no snorkel.............nuff said!!! LOLImage Could Not Be Found