bought a lemon, where do i stand

[ebxr8240]

Keep in mind... Why do most people sell their car ???
Because there is some money to be spent on it...
So don't expect to buy a second hand car in top nick..
Cars like most things require maintenance to keep in good working order..
I've seen many times a reasonably good car traded in for a lemon or a latter
car in worse condition mechanically...

[RAPID_BA]

Get a problem solver (32 inch baseball bat) and take to it.

At the end of the day buddy just spend some more money to fix the issues and move forward. otherwise sell it and take a bath on the sales price.

[Pepscobra]

Unfortunately a car that old (EA = 20+ yrs) is not going to be perfect.
Did you take it for a test drive before you bought it?
It's a bit unfair to call it a lemon... More so you weren't aware it it's problems after 20 yrs of wear and tear. Spend a few dollars on it to get it fixed. EA's are cheap to fix and if she's still going now, she'll keep going for a bit longer yet.

[750bonny]

Originally Posted by mistermxer

bought a car today, turns out it is a lemon, call the seller and as expected they don't want to know about it. where do i stand ?

For a start, you're obviously on the wrong site. You'd probably want the Holden Forum

[ltd_on20s]

i bought a lemon, mine is fine, not too green.

[302 XC]

Originally Posted by pottery beige

insure it... and burn it.....

I know your only kidding ,right ???
Biggest scam this side of off shore oil riggers buying threw paypal
Insurance companies are all over this stuff nowadays

[flappist]

I have read through both your threads is this the actual situation:

1) You owned an EA that caught alight.
2) You ran out and bought another EA privately.
3) The second EA does not seem to go as well as your old one.

Is this what the whole story is about?

[Full Noise]

You bought an EA and you want to complain?

FFS, ring some towing mob and ask them to take it away for you.

What’s the current market value on one of those things, 50 bucks?

Instead of asking for advice on the car, you should be asking yourself why you bought a 20 year old car and expected it to be perfect. The EA was a piece of crap when they were new, unlike a fine wine, they don’t get better with age.

[Professor Farnsworth]

Originally Posted by Full Noise

The EA was a piece of crap when they were new, unlike a fine wine, they don’t get better with age.

while i agree with the rest of your post, the 'mob mentality' notion that all EA's were crap is BS. We had a '91 EA Ghia 5 speed that was a fantastic car, never broke down, got to more than 330,000KM with no head work and still went well. Even the SLS was still working fine. My mate also had an EA GL 3 speed CFi which was one of the most horrific models you could buy this site of the even smaller motor, but it again was unbreakable until about 2004 when it was written off.

back on topic, buy a newer car, or just fix what you have. I suggested a few things in your other thread to check. Doesn't seem like you're interested?

[NX74205]

Originally Posted by Full Noise

Instead of asking for advice on the car, you should be asking yourself why you bought a 20 year old car and expected it to be perfect. The EA was a piece of crap when they were new, unlike a fine wine, they don’t get better with age.

I beg to differ. If they're looked after they can run very well and be worth about $1000. I owned an EA for 7 years, yes, I spent money on it, but after spending that money rebuilding the engine and putting in a new gearbox it didn't have any more problems, despite having about 300000kms on the clock. The only reason I sold it was because I wanted an upgrade.

EAs are not universally pieces of crap.

[Jim Goose]

I had (silly me) an EA with CFI for about 4yrs... while it was grossly underpowered, had some 250,000km, it ran ok other then a dead fuel pump, a cracked radiator and the over flow bottle which broke..... I still didnt mind it and tried to hide its bland interior taxi look with a bit of colour (looking back black and red highlights probably wasnt that "cool"?)

[flappist]

I had an EA Fairmont Ghia 5 speed manual which I bought new in 1989. I drove it for about 250,000km until its aircon died and had to be converted to the new non FNC gas so I sold it.

It broke a lot and I spent a lot on it, probably far more than I should but it was the last manual Fairmont Ghia and my only option was auto or XR6/8 which is the E series had a very povvo interior compaired to Ghia (EB GTs were double the price of a Ghia).

In saying that, they are now very old (older than the thread starter) and were buggy and agricultural compared to later models (like a BA1 compaired to a BF2).

Sell/wreck it and buy a later model, it will be a lot cheaper and better in the long run....

[Professor Farnsworth]

Originally Posted by flappist

It broke a lot and I spent a lot on it, probably far more than I should but it was the last manual Fairmont Ghia

the EB1 was the last Fairmont Ghia available in manual. It also saw the 5.0 back, so it was a great combo

[Springfield_Johny]

Originally Posted by XESP351

Pretty sure there is a cooling off period when you buy cars from dealers, it allows you to change your mind within a certain period and return the car and get a refund, three days I think. Someone here will know more.

In Queensland you get a 1 business day cooling off period for the purpose of a test drive and/or inspection. If you've taken delivery of the vehicle to go home the cooling off period doesn't apply

[flappist]

Originally Posted by Professor Farnsworth

the EB1 was the last Fairmont Ghia available in manual. It also saw the 5.0 back, so it was a great combo

Fair enough, mine was an EA2 and when I got to looking at replacing it when it was 3 years old manual was no longer available so I just kept it.

Looking back it was probably the only time I have ever got reasonable return out of a falcon

[DJR-351]

So how much did you pay for this lemon......??

[mistermxer]

they are coming tomorrow to take it back and give me my monies back... my mummy had a nice chat with his mummy and they gave in and they are driving the two hours to collect it on a car trailer

how ever. me and dad checked the timing, was advanced as all ****, set that, made it heaps better, but it's still **** compared to my old EA Spack, replace the fuel filter and air cleaner with those from my old EA (both of which are less then 10,000kms old) made little to no difference

so they can have it back, i really don't want to be mucking around with it at this point in time

[MAV50L]

Originally Posted by mistermxer

my mummy had a nice chat with his mummy and they gave in and they are driving the two hours to collect it on a car trailer

That is such a fail.
If your Mums are sorting business out for the air of you are either of you actually old enough to even own a car?

[mistermxer]

Originally Posted by MAV50L

That is such a fail.
If your Mums are sorting business out for the air of you are either of you actually old enough to even own a car?

*embarrassed* haha

[Ford_The_Win]

Geez I would put up with an atrocious lemon before I ever stooped to the point of asking my mummy to sort out the nasty car boy