urbanmaser
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Kamaii one day I ay just take you up on your offer
Kamaii one day I ay just take you up on your offer
Dont really know what to say.
what did you pay for the car Kamaii?
I would sugest that the carchex would be responsable for the lack of due diligence in not reporting that specifically the airbag had been detonated.
Therefore the rest of the report would be suspect based on the evaluation of the car by a person unfamiliar with maserati.(ref spare wheel etc)
How ever i am somewhat familiar with a car being rather photogenic but exhibiting problems.
I am not sure how the dealer has come to the conclusion that £30k will fix it as you could buy a 2002 for around £19k...?
very odd.
whats the service history and is it a categorised insurance writeoff?
Sorry again for my excessively bad english.
Kamaii, no need to apologise at all, perfectly understandable.
Yes it seems the forces of darkness and greed were alive and well waiting for yet another individual to come their way, it isn't a Maserati only issue only!
The inspection company is plainly at fault, surely they are worth pursuing, whether they want contact or not........in a country like the USA with 10 times the number of lawyers per head of population compared to the UK, there must be a way to sue the A*S*S*E*S off the S*O*N*S O*F B*I*T*C*H*S...........sorry for swearing.....well not really....
What about placing a message on the USA Maseratilife forum ...ask for advice, feedback?
http://www.maseratilife.com/forums/
The cost of getting this car back to where it should be is prohibitive.........even possibly not worth doing........?
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I am still unsure of what you have accepted though as you stated that you had a vehicle accident check (HPI or similar)and that this exposed a cat insurance writtoff and then the carchex declaired the airbag had been detonated.But through this the car salesman stated that it was a light impact and in the usa a car is written off when the airbag is detonated?
Did they test drive it?
It seems homogolisation is a large part of the cars repair costing..what do you mean by this? is it to make it acceptable for swiss roads?
And these people aint highly though of either in the USA!
http://www.maseratilife.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10470
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Carfax is not the same company. In their report form my car, it was written that it had an accident but no frame damage. I think they are right.
Carchex send a guy that inspects the car personnaly, makes a test drive and write a report.
However, neither are reliable. Too bad that I learned this the most painful way.
The documents were certainly really stolen. I have photos of those send by the dealer of San Diego. Besides, the top was not closed when the car arrived in Switzerland. Don't need to mention that the interior was in such a dirty condition...
Logically:
You decided to buy from a foreign country ? Yes, the prices are incomparably low in the USA.
You did a form of HPI vehicle check and the car came up as a catagory writeoff? If you're talking about the carfax report, I only knew it when the swiss transport company told me. The car was already bought. The fact that the airbag detoned was mentionned by the dealer on Ebay.
You accepted a car that you had never seen before by commissioning a 3rd party to view ,test drive and inspect it on your behalf? Yes, but after two inspections: carchex and the swiss company in charge for the transport.
You then read the report by carchex (not a reputable maserati company IMHO) and still determined that the car was a good purchase based on what you knew and where advised at the time and the price you were getting it for?( been in an accident,airbag detonated etc)? Well, if you read the carchex report, you can see that the car was in perfect condition. I didn't know that that company was not reliable. It's the biggest independent inspection company in the USA.
You had already got an estimate of approx £10,000 for homogolisation to your countries specific road legislations ? (Xenons are not that expensive by the way) £10,000 was Maserati's prices that are increased in order to dissuade parallel import. The real price for homologisation is more like £1000/1500.
The couriers insurance will be responsable for this cars damages during transit and i sugest you place a claim for devaluation of the car do to damage and loss of service records and spare keys etc..Remedying this will be very time consuming and expensive and they are responsable for the cars safety.By agreeing to ship the car and accepting your money you both entered into a contract,you would pay them the price they asked and they would deliver the item to you in thecondition it was collected in and maintain its safety during transit.
Was there any real investigation into how the car was broken into? Yes, the roof was open and is now out of order. A claim has been placed. Waiting for the judge of instruction (?) answer.
If the courier was so neglegent as to leave the roof open, then they did not properly protect or maintain the security of the vehicle in there charge.(bit like some idiot in a bank leaving the safe open and going to the toilet....You just dont logically do this sort of thing)
I would gather the images of the service records etc.. are perfectly viewable and do relate to the spyder and not some other car?If so you can apply for duplicates but ask yourself this...Why on earth would someone want to steal a maserati service book? Why not just debadge it or vandalise it? ....again not logical really..... Theres a nice maserati emblem on the front grill and the middle of the steering wheel etc... I have lots of images and even a video of the car when it left San Diego, when it arrives in Miami and when it arrives at my mechanic. The judge of instruction said I cannot prove the verycity of those (?!?)
I really do sypathise with you... but there (as with me,so i cant talk) has been an element of head and heart not really being on the same continent really..... let alone used in the purchase together.
You bougt with blind passion and seem to have confounded almost every decision by selecting the worst of each profession,Vehicle checks,transport and then you have ignored all the signs that the car had been damaged and repaired and accepted whatever the dealer stated to you.
My case was similar but was differnt as
I bought without seeing the car
I paid over the odds for what i hoped was a perfect example.
I bought from my own country so was protected by our sales laws
I was permitted to view the car prior to acceptance (although when i first rejected it i had problems)
I recieved a car that had not been recorded as in an accident.
It was not in the condition it was described in so had to have a lot of cosmetical tweeks.
I am now... after spending almost £5000 on the car ...left with a very nice MY2004 car that needs nothing for 14,000 miles bar an oil change and filter next year...
But bear this in mind....I was Lucky...it could have all gone very very badly for me and almost did.
I found expensive parts relativly cheaply and a lot of stuff i managed to get working using my skills as an electronic engineer and It hardware engineer.
My MY2004 spyder was in my opinion worth keeping and "doing up" because the MY2004 spyder was by far, a better car than the earlier model 2002.
My car will probably sell for around £22,500 in early 2011 (approx)
It was just not cosmettically in the best condition and needed a full major service as well.
I managed to get the delaership to repay me £3000 from the original price and used this to suppliment the fixes i did to the car and the servicing.