Can anyone tell me what options I have regarding the following:I bought a car from a mechanic (it used to belong to him for his own use) and he put it through the CT for me. Since then, after some 3,000 miles, there was a suspected head gasket blown. We took it back to the mechanic and he took it to pieces and then told us it would be around €1,100 to fix. That is pretty much what we paid for it in the first place, making it a very expensive 'banger'. It is an old car only used to take the trailer to the dump, so we asked him to reassemble it 'as is', so we could drive it home and either scrap it ourselves or wait till we could afford to fix it. He refused to do so and words were said, for we owe him nearly €400 for having disassembled it. At first, he agreed to scrap the car to get some money out of it by way of payment (the tyres are nearly new, as is the catalytic converter) but now he refuses to do so and even though I have offered to pay the full amount, will not organise scrapping it (he lives some 40km away, so it is hard for us to arrange this) but is going to charge us €70 a week for having the car on site ad infinitum. Is this legal? Do we have any redress? We have his offer to scrap the car in an email. Would this be a contract? I have offered to make up any shortfall so that he is fully reimbursed. Thanks for listening.
