Just bought a used car

[SauRoNZA]

Just bare with us you know english is our mother .

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Punctuation with regards to commas, full stops and paragraphs is independent from choice of language.

It applies to all of them universally and therefore "mother tongue" is no excuse as you would use them just fine in yours.

 

[pinball wizard]

A paragraph (from the Ancient Greek παράγραφος paragraphos, "to write beside" or "written beside ") is a self-contained unit of a discourse in writing dealing with a particular point or idea. A paragraph consists of one or more sentences .[1] Though not required by the syntax of any language, paragraphs are usually an expected part of formal writing, used to organize longer prose .

Instead of this, you could have made your point in a more user friendly manner in the first place.

 

[Arthur]

Scary story. Sounds really bad for blesslot.

And, blesslot: Don't blame the wife. That is being very unfair. Take responsibility for your own actions and omissions, like a man. To blame your wife because she hurried you up on the first purchase day is very unfair and unmanly - YOU made the decision to give in to her pressure, so the decision is yours. Learn from this.

I really hope you get things sorted and satisfactorily resolved. However, going by what you've described so far, the chances seem rather remote, I fear.

Let us know how things turn out.

 

[Exaelea]

I still don't get how you didn't notice any of these issues on the first drive.. and yet still accepted the dodgy "paperless" deal

 

[RedViking]

"When we collected the car plus the papers, the car broke down twice again due to the sensor and the escort car that we have been driving with got robbed on the N1/N4 offramp/M22 by a group of thugs with guns, it was a nasty experience"

:wtf:

 

[blesslot]

Scary story. Sounds really bad for blesslot.

And, blesslot: Don't blame the wife. That is being very unfair. Take responsibility for your own actions and omissions, like a man. To blame your wife because she hurried you up on the first purchase day is very unfair and unmanly - YOU made the decision to give in to her pressure, so the decision is yours. Learn from this.

I really hope you get things sorted and satisfactorily resolved. However, going by what you've described so far, the chances seem rather remote, I fear.

Let us know how things turn out.

What I am saying is had she not been there, the transaction would have gone very differently and we would have been much better off nevertheless you may be right, the truth needs to be disregarded sometimes for the sake of peace.

I will be collecting the bakkie later today from Toyota. Will update you how it goes.

 

[I.am.Sam]

any TL;DR versions out there

 

[Splinter]

any TL;DR versions out there

Well, in this thread, the only suspension needed is that of disbelief.

 

[Jchan11hk]

Hectic, i hope everything will work out, but trying to get your money back from that dealership will be supper difficult. Unless you works in one of those law firms. Lesson learnt, never ever buy cars from dodgy dealerships.

 

[FiestaST]

Update?

 

[blesslot]

Update?

Update:


Went to collect the car on Tuesday and Toyota was reluctant to give me the car. They asked me if I am going to tow it and I told them I drove it into their workshop when I brought it here two weeks ago and now why would it be towed? They gave me an indemnity form to sign which indemnifies (is there such a word? But I can trust semantics to aid me) them from any responsibility that may arise from a breakdown. They refused to give me their technician's report but instead gave me the R200 000 quote for the engine reconditioning and said to give that to the guys where we bought the car and demand our cash back and should they refuse, take it up with the ombudsman (whomever he is). They said there is a conrod that is bent and it is pushing oil into the filter and the timing is affected and that may destroy the engine block. I let the dealership know that I am coming as soon as Friday (tomorrow). In the meantime, it is just sitting. I was advised by Toyota to never again buy a car especially a Toyota without an 80 point check. I was also told that the conrod issue can be resolved but I want the dealership to either give me back my money (which is unlikely but among fight them) or fix it at their cost and do the checks they were supposed to have done before putting the car up for sale.

I went to Toyota looking for information to cement some peace of mind and instead I got the opposite nevertheless a *bank account decreasing learning experience.

See me go auto-shopping with the wife again.

 

[pinball wizard]

That is a piss poor attempt at a wall of text.

 

[blesslot]

Update:

The dealership is requesting that I provide proof of a bent conrod in the bakkie's engine and all I have is a quote from Toyota on the strip and quote. My question here is can I force Toyota to issue a tecnician's report on the strip and quote that they did on the car? I paid around R14 000 for the procedure and I don't fancy paying that amount again for that. I am smelling lawyers coming in as this is seeming like approaching a tag team match now. I am driving the car in the meantime and just had the brake discs skimmed and rebonded and the joints and suspension lubricated. Honestly I don't want lawyers involved...all I want is some straight up peace of mind. Thanks

 

[blesslot]

Hectic, i hope everything will work out, but trying to get your money back from that dealership will be supper difficult. Unless you works in one of those law firms. Lesson learnt, never ever buy cars from dodgy dealerships.

Yes. Learnt my lesson. I am fortunate in one way though: The 'dealership' I bought the bake from are not full blown crooks. They were/are just shoddy. They probably were good when they started and now getting money in however it comes is the only thing that is important but then cars aren't bread. Thanks for the response.

 

[blesslot]

I still don't get how you didn't notice any of these issues on the first drive.. and yet still accepted the dodgy "paperless" deal

I gave credit where and when it wasn't due. The wife was too excited and I am thinking I was a bit fatigued from looking and testing bakkies all day. The dealership is a family run operation and the tannie doing the paperwork was extremely pleasant and she and the wife really connected...those were probably red flags but I didn't heed them at the time to be persistent in exercising due diligence. A lesson I have fully learnt.

 

[blesslot]

Here is the bakkie in question. Got it for R200 k wit 155 k kms on the clock and Toyota e-book indicates service until 150 000 kms. It had two owners prior to me. Automatic transmission and very responsive (I press on the accelerator and it goes). Looking at it I can understand the wife falling in love. It's just on close qualified inspection (almost perfect paint job, ecu diagnosis, engine stripping, steering buttons not functioning so well, water leaking into the interior on the front passenger side...just a bit but a leak is a leak, slight bearing noise on startup but which goes after a minute or so, etc...others I am yet to discover) that it sinks.

The white Toyota.

 

[TheChamp]

Nice car, It might just be that it has always been a lemon from the factory, did you get it fixed?

 

[The_Traveller]

Hope you insured to its full value. These cars are so easy to steal. Please don't go to JHB , you will be taking a walk/uber/taxi back home.

 

[TheChamp]

Hope you insured to its full value. These cars are so easy to steal. Please don't go to JHB , you will be taking a walk/uber/taxi back home.

The company which does building maintanance for my employer thought it was a bright idea to go for a fleet deal on the 4×4 gd6 Hilux, just this past week one of the employees was hijacked, the criminal kept him with them until the found the tracker and he was fortunately released unharmed.

 

[Tsepz_GP]

Here is the bakkie in question. Got it for R200 k wit 155 k kms on the clock and Toyota e-book indicates service until 150 000 kms. It had two owners prior to me. Automatic transmission and very responsive (I press on the accelerator and it goes). Looking at it I can understand the wife falling in love. It's just on close qualified inspection (almost perfect paint job, ecu diagnosis, engine stripping, steering buttons not functioning so well, water leaking into the interior on the front passenger side...just a bit but a leak is a leak, slight bearing noise on startup but which goes after a minute or so, etc...others I am yet to discover) that it sinks.

The white Toyota.

Car looks lovely man.

This has been a shocker of a thread to read though, I hope everything gets sorted out for you.

Unfortunately these shoddy dealers are getting smarter at hiding issues it seems.

Did you find what sort of accident the car was in? Maybe find out what Tow company handled it and where the dealer got it, maybe worth giving SMD a call about it.