Dishonest garage sold our car

..Okay so the car may be too expensive for the customer to fix independently or uneconomical for them.. whatever!.. then offer them 'something' and tell the truth.. or tell them "look if you get a better quote, then take it.. but If you don't and you want to get rid of the car.. I'd like to pay you something for it and spend time and money to fix this up!"
...Only then the garage would deserve the extra money for their time.. none of this Arthur Daley B.S! ....greedy git!! lol!... on the upside!.. good judgment comes from experience I guess.

wow!.. that happened to a family member of mine.. they managed to get the money back on the grounds of 'undue influence' the garage had a duty to provide a service and advise honestly. It's a tough one to prove if there are no pics of the car being on sale or emails etc.. then again, if he had the car in his/her name for a period of time this would at least prove that he had some degree of intention to defraud I would imagine. Its a shame you didn't call the advertisement for the car and go for a viewing... that would have really effed them up!

I see your point though... If your gonna sell the car just be honest, so what if your spending time on it and all that crap... just tell me straight. It will cost you a bomb.. but I want to fix it for myself cos I'm a greedy em'effer and I don't care about customers at all!.. lol! Anyway good luck.

They have done nothing wrong, the scrap value is aprox £50, they did not charge you an hours labour for looking at it in the first place, If sombody at the garage has (legaly) spent a weeks worth of lunch breaks and downtime , plus a few hundred quid of their own money on parts, whats wrong with that LABOUR IS APROX £55 PLUS PER HOUR, it is the killer for most repairs unless you can do it yourself!!!

Maybe they ripped you off - but it is also possible they spent long hours fixing it before selling it on.Economical for them but potentially not for you.

You took your car to the garage, they did not come to you. Everything has a value - had you haggled you would have got something for the car and not taken in by the con that "I will scrap it for free". It is not illegal to repair a car in your own time and get it back on the road as long as it passes the MOT and the driver insured.

I had the same happen to me I took my car to the garage in eye peterborough Eye Motor Centre and thay sold it now thay on yell.com asking for scrap vehicles

IS THIS THE MAN TO BUY A CAR OFF !!!!!

I took my golf 2008 to my main dealers (Rye Mill) in High Wycombe on 08-04-09 to let the technician have a look at the car. They had for about 30-45 mins and when I got it back home my other half have noticed that the passenger side rear quarter panel is damaged.

So I called them and they said that the person I need to speak to is not there till tommorow, anyway I went to the main dealers (Rye Mill) the same day and when I got there the two blokes I spoke to said that they spoke to the technician who worked on my car and he said that the dent was already there and I know it was not there because I love my car to bits and I would have noticed the big dent.

Also when the technician finished my car he did not leave it in the customer bays which they have always done he parked it with the passenger side facing the trees/bushes so it was hiding the damage. What can I do now if they are denying this?

'Dishonest garage sold our car' . . . I have been in the car trade for 15 years, believe it or not the car trade is primarily about making a profit. If you signed the v5 document and gave ownership to the garage- well more fool you. Perhaps you're annoyed and angry at your own stupidity and feel the need to blame someone else. Money has changed hands, you haven’t seen any of it, consider this.. the garage would only use new parts on a repair job for you, it’s very easy using dealer supplied parts to amount a huge bill, then there’s the labour, none-dealership.. maybe £45 per hour. So perhaps you were told the truth. What if the garage then repaired the car using salvaged parts (from a scrapyard) this could save 75% of the parts bill. The labour cost will be taken out of the vehicle sale, I’m sure he will have had to provide some sort of guarantee also. Maybe the only persons to benefit was the mechanic by being given work by his employer and the scrapyard from having sold parts. It’s easy to assume the worst, you said ‘ Our Fiat car (worth approximately £2000) broke down recently ‘, well it was sold for £1,250 you say, no doubt a true reflection of it’s value and perhaps another unrealistic view from your point . Common sense is the key here and remember not everyone is Swedish.

Hiya there, I recently had my car scrapped by a reputable recovery company (supposedly). The man seemed extremely trustworthy and gave me £50 to scrap my beloved car. I carried on as usual and bought my dad's lovely car off him, soon after.

Now, you cam imagine my complete shock and horror when I drove past my supposedly scrapped car, sitting happily in someone's driveway! Apparently, the car was bought for £900! I am absolutely disgusted by this company, and feel the need to share my gripe with everybody! There, I feel better now!

Seeing as it was a Fiat, I think they did you a favour. Hopefully you bought a more sensible replacement - a Skoda vRS perhap? If you won the lottery this would have to be the one to go for, even if you don't win big, still go for this, rather than a Honda.

serves you right why did you not get the car repaired and sell it yourself if it was economical to do so. you obviously have little mechanical know how, and probably no fiscal know how.

The car may well have been worth less to repair than it was worth as the most expensive part of a repair is labor, however if thay repair it themself then it only the part has to be payed for so it can be sold on for a small profit.