Jackie

Terrible car sold to me

Picked up my astra on the Saturday morning firstly noticed petrol was UNDER the red and got told by them oh sorry we run out of petrol ( even though petrol garage across riad ) .Car cost me £6800 and wow did I regret buying it .Not more than 20 minutes down the riad it started smelling of burning , I pulled over ata relatives address where it was discovered a oil leak and no coolant in the car , and also a nail in the back tyre . I rang the owner who didn't want to talk about the issues nut advised me that " everyone drives around with nails in their tyres ! " , I took the car straight to a garage who told me it had a series oil leak and a bad issue with the coolant system and I was looking at around £400 +to repair but on speaking to the owner and reminding him of my months warranty I had been given and asking him if he was going to sort these issues out his reply was " well we will have to look at it and see first " NOT an answer I expect on a car that had been driven for less than a hour !! I took the car home after filling the coolant bottle up parked it up for the evening , but the next morning the coolant was empty and there was iol on my driveway ,I returned the car and got a refund but their attitude was so slap dash like its nothing to them and even laughed when I pointed out I had left almost £30 petrol in it , So if you are about to buy an astra from them please take a mechanic to check it all over before you but as it seems they are quite happy to let cars go off their forecourt unfit for the road !!