A sticky buying situtation..... hard top or not????

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mark1720

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We have finally found a new landrover after ours was nicked back in January. Or so we thought. It is a 51 plate defender 90 station wagon BUT on doing a vehicle reg check it is registered as a utility 4x4. This implies it was a hard top on registration. The insurance say that we now need to contact the previous owners and find out if has been a conversion etc and if it was done professionally etc then it has to go to the underwriters etc etc.
The main issue we have that we have put a deposit on the landrover (not bought yet) and it is under the terms of ' sold as seen'. It is from a main landrover dealer. Could we theoretically get the deposit back???
 
mark1720 said:
We have finally found a new landrover after ours was nicked back in January. Or so we thought. It is a 51 plate defender 90 station wagon BUT on doing a vehicle reg check it is registered as a utility 4x4. This implies it was a hard top on registration. The insurance say that we now need to contact the previous owners and find out if has been a conversion etc and if it was done professionally etc then it has to go to the underwriters etc etc.
The main issue we have that we have put a deposit on the landrover (not bought yet) and it is under the terms of ' sold as seen'. It is from a main landrover dealer. Could we theoretically get the deposit back???
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sols as seen dont mean ****. If its not fit for purpose then the games up for them.Has it really been converted though?
 
Have you seen the actual documents? What does it say on the V5. Tell the dealer there's a problem & you may have problems insuring it. Ask to see the docs.

He may be reasonable & it may just be a mistake on some database, somewhere.

He may be innocently unaware of the problem and be as genuinely shocked as you are.

Or the dealer might be a total carnt and you are then well within your consumer rights to burn down his premises, kill his pets one by one and duck tape a plastic bag over his head whilst he's tied to a chair.
 
mark1720 said:
The main issue we have that we have put a deposit on the landrover (not bought yet) and it is under the terms of ' sold as seen'. It is from a main landrover dealer. Could we theoretically get the deposit back???
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Under the Consumer Transactions (Restrictions on Statements) Order 1976 it's a criminal offence for a motor trader to use a statement such as 'sold as seen' - if you put the deposit down on the basis that you were buying a station wagon, and you find it's now registered as a hard top THAT then provides you with the legal right to your deposit back on the grounds that the vehicle is not as advertised
 
goonarmy said:
thats wot i sed
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yer but quoting acts and dates at peeps tends to give the impression that you know what your talking about, and usually gets them reaching for their cheque books a bit faster than if you'd just told them it "dont mean ****" ;)
 
Grippa said:
Or the dealer might be a total carnt and you are then well within your consumer rights to burn down his premises, kill his pets one by one and duck tape a plastic bag over his head whilst he's tied to a chair.
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:behindsofa::hysterically_laughi:praise:
 
Thanks for your helpful and amusing replies!
Just to update - we got the main dealer to go onto the landrover database and pull off the spec sheet with what it came off the production line with and hey ho it is station wagon. genuine. It appears that the DVLA were given the wrong info about the vehicle.
We now have to get an official letter from landrover stating that it is indeed a station wagon and then we can send this along with the V5 to the DVLA to get their description changed so there wont be any future insurance issues.
Just as an aside we also checked a few other landrover regs that we knew of and there was 1 other landy which was described as station wagon when it is actually an hard top.....
 
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