Speedway Fan

Hi! Yeah, it was nice to have a drive with you in convoy for a bit. My GT4 was off the road a long, long time, but has been resurrected by the top guys at Japex. It's currently finding its feet again on a long commute each day. Nice, eye catching Zed you've got!

Thanks for all the replies. Just quiet because I work away a lot. I'm currently going through the credit card people and I'll update you on what happens! Greg - it was just two weeks and a couple of hundred miles after the purchase!

Thanks docwra, catman, Juggalo, fake ben, Tom and Jeff for your thoughts. Given the way they've behaved, I'd be surprised if I was the only one who's been had by them. It seems like the consensus is to refuse it and try to get the money back through the credit card. It's a shame, as I really would like to keep the car!

Am I correct in thinking, the place you bought the car was in a residential area. It also has a few green house within the compound? If so I have went to see the car as someone else on here was looking at it also as I warned him about the car.... It has big brake kit, GT4 version asking for about £8k mark? 我從使用 Tapatalk çš„ Nexus 6 ç™¼é€ Hi Carbon.Ninja - sounds like the place and the car. I dread to think what your warning was? Be good to know.

Thanks Ricey. Would've been a good effort to destroy it in a couple of hundred miles!

Thanks for all the great responses. davedutch - I'm going to write to the credit card people today. Bradders - sounds good, I'd be really interested to know how I goes and what the issue was with your engine. Oggieteepo - thanks for posing the question to her, that's great.

Oggieteepo - thank you for the link, I think it might prove to be pretty useful that I used the credit card!

jimboy2 - it's not Junction 17, it's a few junctions south.

Thanks for the posts guys. GMBallistic - that sounds a nightmare! Thing is, about returning it to them, I just don't trust them at all. They'll probably do something even worse! davedutch - cheers, I'm going to look into the credit card size of things. Still pretty interested to know what a rebuild would cost?

Cheers guys. The 4k was part of the purchase price, I was just spreading it around a bit.

Thanks Ekona, I'll do that now.

Thanks so much for all the replies so far. Justthejedi - it's an independent place, quite big and has everything from cheap cars, right up to Ferraris. With hindsight, I didn't feel great about the place or the people at the time. I'm not sure about trading standards, the local council don't even seem to have it any more on their website! Nowhereboy - I'm not sure if I should name them on here yet if it could end up getting legal? But it's a mile off the A1 in Beds and it's quite big. Ekona - thanks ever so much for taking the time to write all that. It does look a credible way to try and not be out of pocket, but the flaw in the plabn is that I lose the car! I'm also reluctant to put in on a truck for the third time and take it back. They'll probably just bring it here again! But I'm going to have a good think about what you've said. Attak Z - Thanks. Much love for the Vulcan too. davey_83 - The 'warranty' is just a box on the sales invoice, supposedly underwritten by themselves, rather than an actual package from somewhere reputable. leonk - I definitely want the car and want to fix it. But still, feel pretty short changed!

Unfortunately, yes! http://www.350z-uk.com/topic/102619-my-dead-zed-and-the-garage-whove-ripped-me-off-advice-welcome/

Hi all, I'll try and keep this tale of woe as brief as possible, but I'd really appreciate any thoughts on how to deal with the traders who sold me the car and also the best people to rebuild or replace the engine in my 05 350Z GT4. It's still the car I want and I want to get it going again. I bought the car in July and posted in the introductions section. It's an awesome car and looks just like the one at the top of these pages, in ultra yellow. It's number 143/176 and it's done 52,000 miles. The car came with a 'warranty' covering major engine components. I enjoyed the car for just two weeks, before it developed what is almost certainly big end bearing failure. Needless to say, I'm mechanically minded and care for cars meticulously, so its oil was correctly topped up etc. It had a great service history, so this is pretty unlucky. I contacted the garage and, after a lot of moaning, they eventually brought round an old banger for me to get around in a towed the Zed away to be fixed. What has followed is two months of lies about what they said they would do, including rebuilding the engine and replacing it; every week I'd phone and each time I'd be given some story about what they'd done. This has culminated in them sending two men around unannounced, dropping the unfixed Zed at my place, untouched, as broken as it was before (although obviously now filthy and with a flat battery etc). They couldn't even get the car off the trailer and scraped its underside trying to get it off. They were intimidating and continually lied about the car, claiming to know nothing, despite being the same person who had been explaining they'd fit a new engine two weeks before. They took their old banger and left, leaving me stuck in a village with no transport to work early the next day. It is clear, looking at the car, that nothing has ever been done to it; not a single bolt has been loosened. They've been stringing me along and lying for over two months. The crowning glory was the faked 'report' they handed me, which they've made, from a garage that doesn't exist. It says, in very poor English, that I've trashed the car and it's my fault. The only thing that might help me is that I paid for £4000 of it on a credit card. Maybe I can enlist the help of HSBC to claw back the price of the repairs? So, there are two areas I'd love some sound advice on: 1. Who can actually help me to tackle rogue traders like these and get them to pay for the repairs? 2. Who is best placed to rebuild or replace my engine, and for how much? All thoughts really appreciated.

Cheers!