Josh

Dishonest car sales

20 hours ago. Stay well clear of Purbrook Car Sales. I bought a vw passat from here. When i test drove the car it was in a good condition. After this i left the car with them for 5 days for an MOT. the 3 MOTs the car had previously all had the same advisory about a leaking brake caliper. This was never fixed but the mot they did had no advisory about it which was suspicious. When i picked the car up 5 days later after seeing it it felt completely different to drive but as this was my first car i was in a rush to buy it and drive it away. It turns out the turbo had been changed and was about to blow according to a genuine vw garage. I believe it was swapped from the owners car which was also vw passat. Other problems later occured such as: leaking shock absorbers, failing brakes including the leaking caliper, worn dual mass fly wheel, worn clutch which was slipping, worn wheel bearings, blown turbo which would of costed £1500 plus £500 labour, turbo intercooler hoses, and many other expensive problems. Basically a death trap not fit to be on the road clearly.I bought the car with 121000 which was a low millage for its age of 14 years old and the car went into limp home mode and was scrapped 128500 miles in 6 months. The only good thing i can say is that they let you yest drive the car on your own, however the cars they buy and sell are unreliable and are not subject to regular maintenance. Total costs for repairs would of come to roughly £5500. Also the engine code was missing and when i had it checked by a mechanic he thought by the condition of the engine it looked over 200000 miles on it and it had loads of problems logged in the ecu