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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pussy" data-source="post: 367757" data-attributes="member: 60">Unker...'buyer beware'  or...(lawyers know the latin word)i see neither the dealer nor the workshop is at fault...dealer:1. they sold the car, hence your friend should have really checked out the car before he bought it.any happens after the car is driven out the yard/shop, is his problem if the car gets stolen, burned, blah-blah...however, if there is a warranty, then he can claim back to the dealer..dealer that's adjusts the mileage, is in the wrong, his business of selling, as astroboy said, can be a stolen car also...so, i feel he got cheated... but can't blame the dealer that he sold a car with a problem. maybe the dealer did not know ?so, i dun blame the dealer, there is many out there, trust none..workshop:usually, the first i start is to identify the cheapest solution first, start with the basic fault finding then to the worst part ie. overhaul the engine...so now, the workshop did their best, show the problem, your friend confirmed to go ahead with works or if he did not trust them, then towed the car to another workshop.the head is what the workshop found out, then it was the block, hence also the workshop was dealing with a patient which did not have previous records of the car... so trial and error... dun blame them, i think other workshops would have done the same thing...what happened is that i see that 'someone' did a rush hush-hush job on the car, then sold it off..your worst luck...just tell your friend that it's lucky to spot it now, learn one or two about buying a secondhand car... Forrest gump - eating a box of chocolates is you don't know what the inside will taste like...cheers..</blockquote>

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