Topic: Sold a car. new owner found problems. wants money for repairs

[wing]

LOL.

I had a similar experience.  Sold a Subaru Impreza.  Thing was 12 years old at the time?  Anyways I sold it for like $3500.  They took the car to their mechanic and were happy, I got the safety and etest done at CTC and they gave me the cash and all was good.

About a month later I got an e-mail saying the timing chain was done the engine was ticking and that it would be $1000 to fix and I need to pay or they will sue me. I was a nice guy and went to their house to listen to the car.  Sure enough sounded bad.  I said, well sorry but it wasn't making that sound when I sold it to you, I had no idea that would happen.

What do I know?  The kid that bought it was 16 he probably revved the crap out of the thing and jumped a gear or something I don't know.  Daddy tried to threaten me with "buyer's remorse laws" and what not saying his son put all his money in this thing and now it's broken and he can't afford to fix it.

I told them to off I never heard from them again.  Poor son couldn't afford the car while Daddy drove away in his X5....

[2latecrew]

http://www.ag.gov.bc.ca/courts/small_claims/info/guides/making_a_claim.htm#after

Send her this and tell her not to contact you directly anymore or you will consider it harassment.

She likely won't do SFA. She'll just give up and go away.

She won't want to pay the fee to file a claim. If she does the most she can do is walk into the court with a bill of sale , some bill from a mechanic (which is useless because he will NOT show up in court to explain the bill)

She CANNOT WIN.

You need to just let this go.Let her make good on the threat to file a small claims suit  

[Railton]

I sold my '06 Talon TSI AWD to a guy from PEI. He had a cousin (a mechanic) of his who lived near me and we made arrangements for him to come take a look at the car for him first. The guy shows up, hardly walks around it, opens the passenger door and gives it a quick once over, I drive him around for 15 minutes or so and he advises back to the potential owner that the vehicle is perfect. The guy flies in from PEI a short while later, we sign the papers and off he goes back to PEI with the car.
Apparently somewhere in NB the turbo blows and leaves him stranded. He flatbeds the car all the way back to PEI. He send's me a message once he gets home of what happend. Does not ask for anything, and I think he was actually happy still that he managed to purchase the car, I could just tell though he was dissapointed or if nothing else damned tired from the ordeal.
What do i do? I go out and buy him a low mileage T-25 to replace the blown one from a guy I knew who had it spare and I ship it to him. I don't hear back from him for about a month or two. Turns out he was embarrased to write me as he received the T-25 I sent him and installed it only to find that he didn't do a very good job of cleaning the intake and damn if he didn't kill the turbo I sent him from the little bits he missed cleaning out. He ended up having to find another T-25 (not likely another in PEI) and complete the work yet again. Good thing he was a Turbine mechanic used to working on PT6's and such.
You never know how these sales are going to go.
Railton

[ArticSteve]

I will not replay on any of her e-mails

But you did.  You started to debate the issue as if you're trying to justify your position.

You didn't heed advice.  Now you must suffer.  Just hope that she is not one of those one in 100,000 that spins out of control and takes it to another level.    

[Flashforward]

I will not replay on any of her e-mails

But you did.  You started to debate the issue as if you're trying to justify your position.

You didn't heed advice.  Now you must suffer.  Just hope that she is not one of those one in 100,000 that spins out of control and takes it to another level.    

I did as someone told me to: answer the e-mail, and tell her that I no longer have any liability over her car and tell her that this is the last of the matter.
but you might be right... maybe I shouldn't had answered at all.

she acts a little bit as a psycho, so, we'll see how this goes. I'm just worried for myself if I can be in any trouble at all...

[richink]

Daddy tried to threaten me with "buyer's remorse laws"

Those do not exist in Ontario.

"They took the car to their mechanic and were happy, the kid that bought it was 16 he probably revved the crap out of the thing" - spot on the money there, all $3200 of it for a 12 year old car!

Maybe the kid thought he was the re-incarnation of Colin McRae...

[ArticSteve]

I did as someone told me to: answer the e-mail, and tell her that I no longer have any liability over her car and tell her that this is the last of the matter.

I am sorry to hear that you are having mechanical issues with your vehicle.
At the time of the sale I disclosed what I knew about the car, and you agreed to buy based on that information (i.e. the oil leaks in the engine, left headlight burnt out). There by the price reduction with 800cad from 5000cad to 4200cad.

Your email reply went into the issue with specifics.  What was the point of that ..... guilty conscience 

Legally you don't have any problems and you are hearing that from everyone in this thread.  The concern, is that the buyer, who has a 5k pile of of junk on her hands, is a nutter and can't suck up the loss mentally.  This is the risk when you sell crap.  Do you have a sufficient physical firewall in place?   

[safristi]

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