If I Can!

[TWR]

What a stupid person I am buying a set of 4 Glow plugs off eBay at the price of £19.00, I should have know better, normal price for a good set is around £40>>>>£60, they had been in since April 2015, last week the car a 308 Peugeot went into "Limp Mode" it turned out that there was a short with the glow plugs that blew a Relay / Fuse, cost as yet. to be received, I contacted the company off eBay Explained the issue regards the faulty Glow Plugs & said I would send them back, they said do not bother sending them back & a refund will be made, they did that without question within an hour, I have yet to contact them with the total bill when received, I must admit I was at fault for buying cheap ( that will not happen again ) reason for this post, think before you buy members on A.B. It does not always work out CHEAP as I have found out.

[Baldric]

Ah, good advice there, thank you.

[EDDIE51]

That was just as likely to happen with full price plugs,and I would take a bet that you would have got a refund.

[TWR]

It's the cost of the labour that I am seeking Eddie, if the plugs would have been ok the car would not have gone into limp mode that an Auto Elec had to sort out.

[EDDIE51]

I am saying that a set of full price plugs was just a likely to fail as the eBay set.

[tonyav]

Bad luck that, TWR. But we all live and learn.
Changed four in a 307 I had ( just before I flogged it ), they were cheap ebay ones to !. Wonder how long they lasted.

[LCDMAN]

What makes you think they have any responsibility for any consequential losses? Do you have a supply contract to explicitly include them?

As a "regular" consumer I respectfully suggest they'll tell you get stuffed if you send them any further bill, and if you want anything more then you'll have to sue...

Giving you a full refund was, in my opinion, the limit of their liability to you, and they've done that.

[EDDIE51]

^^ I agree, to get any further payment you would have to prove that they knowingly supplied faulty glow plugs.
If they had to pay out for this it would mean any supplier of spare parts would have to pay compensation if the part failed and caused a financial cost / loss.

[EDDIE51]

^^ PS was that the first post of 2016?

[SirOracle]

Tonyav I am writing to you from the snowbound hills in the Scottish highlands where my recently purchased 307 has ground to a halt due to the failure of the spark plugs.

Thanks very much indeed. !!

[Hopkirk]

I have learnt that lesson in the past, not to buy apparently cheap car parts on ebay. They are usually poor quality Chinese copies.

Buy cheap, buy twice.

[tonyav]

Ah but Sir O, I flogged that heap about about 3 years ago so it ain't had a bad innings ;-)

[Baldric]

Thought you changed Glow-plugs not Spark plugs Tony, think he's mixing you up with someone else.
;o)

[tonyav]

That is correct, Baldric. Well spotted.

[Islay]

You have a refund highly unlikely to get anymore recompense.

[SirOracle]

Just ignore my solicitor's letter then, tony. :-)

[tonyav]

Already in the bin, Sir O ;-)

[SirOracle]

Tony. I had my house broken into a couple of weeks ago and my car was stolen. Has been recovered but being written off by Insurer as the engine was completely cooked.

I am now looking for a replacement and quite fancy a Citroen C4 TVR+ but don't really know much about them. Do you have any experience of this Citroen.

My written off car was a Volvo V70 T5 but can't obtain a replacement sadly.

[tonyav]

Sorry to hear that, Sir O. You lost a very good car there. Sorry no I have no experience of Citroens at all.
Although I'd stick with a Volvo if I were you.

[SirOracle]

Thanks Tony for advice. An equivalent Volvo (or close)is more then I am prepared to spend as I am a widower and children have all flown the nest.Becoming morbid I feel that I do not need this quality or size of car as I am not getting any younger,so downsizing in price and size seems the sensible option.

I won't be rushing into any decision though.

You are absolutely correct when you say that the Volvo V70 T5 was a very good car. The best I have ever had.

[tonyav]

Sir O, think Japanese.