have a word with the wife

but but but, i need to remove the oil cap and see if "headgaskets gone mate"

In small claims court you can appeal, you pay a fee around £100ish, MUST be done within 14 days of the judgement, you can ask the judge when hes made his decision or if you didnt attend you ask the appeal court, if you didnt attend you can apply for set aside [judgement] but must have good reason for not attending. The appeal court will only allow an appeal if it is satisfied that: The decision of the judge who heard the small claims trial was wrong in law; or The decision was unfair because of a serious irregularity in the small claims proceedings

i go right back to when a/trader was a magazine, boy theyve had some money off me other the years, can remember one dealer in the magazine offering a free satelite dish with every car sold and sparky thinks balloons sell cars no i packed a/trader 2 year ago, when they decided to be clever and put a marker on every cat c or d car, this was the start of there downfall, a lot of traders left in that 3 month, it was hard to leave them, but ive never looked back and very pleased i did ....

i kept a kid on hold for a week with his low ball offer " let me think about it " i said, he kept messaging me on ebay every night, on the seventh night he increased his offer £50, i replied sorry just sold it

lawgistics fought one of these quite recently i recall ? bought from the sales pitch, salesmans wifes car ? car came back, bloke screamed i bought it off your sales pitch ! only thing that saved the day really is salesman proved it was his wifes by showing in court finance agreement in his wifes name [ paid] ! dont, if you could, all cars could be sold this way as a way of getting away from consumer rights......

not given the oppurtunity to inspect the car, didnt authorise any third party repairs, key points.

the mediation team i would have thought would tell the claimant seeing as theyve told you that the wrong entity has been chosen, to change this requires a judges permission, and/or a fee, so the case may fizzle out on its own accord, they might not want to spend twice on costs ! Your very best defense= is you offered to repair the car, they refused. they carried on using the vehicle thereby causing further damage. its a 12 year old car they have not contacted you before referring it to the court. see if you can get it struck out on the basis of = 1 in wrong name 2 no contact before court action [ frowned upon by the courts letter before action] 3 pointless claim with poor evidence. and if that doesnt work send a letter [ recorded] to the claimant explaining how you tried to help, no faults were present at time of sale, they refused to return the vehicle for you to repair it, and you are considering a counter claim against them for no more than a thousand pounds for your inconvenience, time spent replying to court action etc etc and see if they drop it ..