advise needed please

[dave r5]

rite ill try an cut this short.

my mate went to canvey last nite to purchase a stuning imperial blue r5

standard inside. engine bay and body work

he paid 1300 for it, then drove it home

fan kiked in and drove nice

for 15 miles.

then it got hot blah blah blah

got it bak to unit wiped of rocker more cream then dairy lee.

rang previous owner, he came down and agreed to give bak 70 pounds to replace gasket bolts ect. fair deal nice bloke


caried on striping so we cud get head skimed today,
and the pistons have received mega detonation. maby due to the kock sencor in the wrong place, from previous owner


question is were does he stand shud he demand money back?
or does he swallow it?

after all it is a 5 gt turbo, and there allways broke lol

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[Junglist]

i dont think you can buy a car then take the engine apart etc looking for faults and ask for money back ??
if you only drove it home and now it doesnt work i would take the whole car back and get all the money back

[dave r5]

yeah i see wat yr saying. i personaly wudnt swallow it
but after having many of theses cars u kinda expect it

the man was generaly honest

an said he bought it with head gasket failure,

replaced the head as it was realy pitted (it was in the boot of the 5 seriously foooked)

run it for 500 miles head went agen

replaced gaskets ect agen an sold it on

all the wrk was carried out buy a guy from bench sound aparently.

probably didnt help that the head bolts were dun up with a srew driver, they were seriously loose

i hate monkeys

[TNT Tricky Nicky]

if it was from a dealer then take it back but i think your mate has already done well getting £70 back for new headset, after all buying a car privately is a case of sold as seen imo

[dave r5]

so legaly and moraly hes just gona have to bite the bullet realy and accept it

[Kenobi]

To be honest the im surprised the guy was even interested enought to come look at it. He sounds fair to me.

[JRP]

gotta bite this one mate... the guy comming to give money for hg set etc is a result, id be inclined to get the head fiddled with and change a few things in the block :)

[TNT Tricky Nicky]

that's the way i see unless he got a written agreement at the point of sale stating that he has the right to strip the car and any faults found will be corrected by the seller.

it's not nice to buy a new car and it to break on the way home but i'm sure it's not the first time it has happened with a 5gtt, after all you said yourself, you kinda expect it with these kinda cars

[dave r5]

thanks guys looks like i get the joy of chuking togeva yet anuva c1j great.

mymate who bought it wats it turned around in a week. hell be lucky

lets see how far i can stretch his credit card ay lol

[James5]

Hasn't dale aka Bigfoot got a spare c1j complete engine as he seems to break slot if 5's :laugh: