DRM
Guru
- Location
- West Yorks
I’ve heard similar when our work vans go back, these are mobile offices/workshops/canteens/toolboxes, they way they go on it’s as if they expect the firm to lease them, and leave them parked up inside without being used for five years.They use the same tactics as car leasing firms do.
My neighbour had a leased Nissan Joke. At two yrs old it was due to go back to the company.
The inspector made an appointment, spent well over 2 hrs inspecting it even having it turned around so he 'could get the sun on the other side'. He wanted nearly £6000 for damage that would 'have to be put right'.
My neighbour showed me the 'report'. Each tiny stone chip on the front was itemised and priced. some finger nail marks around the driver's door were itemised and priced. He measured the depth of paint all over the car and claimed the rear right panel had been repainted (It hadn't, it was always on his drive, so unless he'd had a bump, and got it repaired and repainted the same day!....) and would have to be 'done properly'. It went on and on. The cost for touching up just the odd stone chip was more than the quote my neighbour got from a paint shop for a full respray!
So he took it to a repair centre, got it inspected and was given a quote for putting all the minor marks bang to right, it came to under £200. Armed with this he handed the car back and told them he'd see them in court, and warned that he'd recorded the mileage at inspection, repair quotation and at hand back. After a couple of solicitor's letter demanding the £6k, which he refuted, repeating 'see you in court'. It was dropped.
He bought his next car.
I've heard a similar story from my son who toyed with selling to WBAC. He traded it in in the end.