Different sort of pain.
Alan Lennox Motors at Bulleen Road. For those of you in Melbourne who are planning to get a car, in my personal opinion please stay clear of this establishment. Despite the fact that they are a RACV Green Light Motor Trader, the car that they sold me in December with a fully complient RWC is now in need of $1190 worth of repairs for it to be issued a RWC. I sincerely (the above mentioned establishment's may refute that, it is in their rights to) doubt that I could have split the suspension bushes, worned the sway bar links and cracked my brakelines by driving mostly on the eastern freeway. I specifically paid slightly above market price for the car and got it from a dealer expecting it to be not as dodgy as those listed privately. It is now clear that I was wrong.
Here's what I've learnt from my expensive lesson:
1. NEVER trust a used car dealer. NEVER.
2. The RACV Green Light scheme is wide open to abuse, hence NEVER take for granted that Green Light dealers are any better than the dodgy ones.
3. Buy private if the car is more than 10 years old or more than 150 000 kms (hence not covered by statutory warantee).
4. Insist on a RWC and get a pre purchase inspection (forget about the RACV, not only I've lost confidence in them, their prices are cut throat too, $280 vs approximately $150 by independent workshops)
5. 3rd party warantee schemes are waste of money. I've read through the exclusions and it excludes almost everything which will potentially go wrong. On the bits that they will cover, the meagre amount allocated would mean that you will still pay thousands. Hence they are pretty much useless.
6. Stay away from old BMWs.
5. Last but not least, in my personal opinion, Alan Lennox Motors can not be trusted.
I am still fuming.
On the bright side, she's coming back to Melbourne tomorrow. YAY!!!!!!
Here's what I've learnt from my expensive lesson:
1. NEVER trust a used car dealer. NEVER.
2. The RACV Green Light scheme is wide open to abuse, hence NEVER take for granted that Green Light dealers are any better than the dodgy ones.
3. Buy private if the car is more than 10 years old or more than 150 000 kms (hence not covered by statutory warantee).
4. Insist on a RWC and get a pre purchase inspection (forget about the RACV, not only I've lost confidence in them, their prices are cut throat too, $280 vs approximately $150 by independent workshops)
5. 3rd party warantee schemes are waste of money. I've read through the exclusions and it excludes almost everything which will potentially go wrong. On the bits that they will cover, the meagre amount allocated would mean that you will still pay thousands. Hence they are pretty much useless.
6. Stay away from old BMWs.
5. Last but not least, in my personal opinion, Alan Lennox Motors can not be trusted.
I am still fuming.
On the bright side, she's coming back to Melbourne tomorrow. YAY!!!!!!
