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If I bought a 3ltr Surf back in December with 3 months warranty, and after 4/5 months and much spent on it, including a head, it is then suspected to have a cracked block and be worthless to me, as I cannot afford a new engine, can I say anything to the Dealer, or as it has passed the 3 months warranty am I stuffed? As it stands, the truck has cost me a little over 8k all in since I bought it, (including purchase price) and I have no car and cant even afford to get it moved from my dads. I dont want to moan at the dealer or give them any grief if I have no leg to stand on. If I don't have a case to moan, then at least I can stop worrying about it and try and get something else sorted. Cheers, Daz
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Really sorry to hear about your problems, as in general they are the greatest cars going or in your case not.
I am no expert, but as far as i know you have statury rights. Contact trading standards and ask them, how you stand.
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Did the head go within the initial 3 month period?
If you can link the cracked block to something that happened during the 3 months but was either mis-diagnosed or ignored by the dealer during that time then I think you have recourse...Comment
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No , it seemed to go after the 3 month period, although there was never any overheating etc so I only noticed it after lookiing in the mirror and seeing fog from my truck! The only thing that happened from the day i got it was the fact that it was doing 13-14 to the gallon, but I never went back to the dealer as I thought it might just need a service/heavy right foot.Originally posted by chunkymonkey
I have contacted Trading Standards to see where I stand, but they did say that I may have blown it by going somewhere else to get the head done, although the dealer asked me to take it to him, but as it was a fair distance, i daren't drive it that far!Comment
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