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    Vehicle : vectra

    Trim : Sri xp

    Engine : 1.8 vvt

    Year : 2007

    Mileage : 77850

    Angry Got my vec c 1.8 vvt xp Sri

    2 hour drive to view the car, got there love at 1st site.
    Done all the usual checks looked underneath check oil,check water, tires etc etc
    Had a 5 minute test drive all was good to me anyway.

    So gets it insured, tries getting it taxed 1 hour later no luck something wrong with the logbook or maybe the site and there shut cause of it being saturda!

    Anyway screen shot the message from dvla and I could drive the car with no tax.

    So gets in the car all excited 2 mile drive to get petrol on t

    Filled up with petrol on my way home, into the the 1hour later I can smell petrol thought nothing of it.

    Just over 2 hours later goes to my mums as needed toilet. Stays and has a cuppa and shows mum the car, she said I can really smell petrol, goes out to have a sniff yer really strong smell and it was getting worse and couldn't see anything underneath that was leaking.

    So 30 mins later I starts the car up, gets the wife and mother to check underneath and guess what it's ****ing out of petrol like a hose pipe, turns the engine of it stops.

    So can't move the car, calls rac waits up my mums till 11.30 they can't come out till tomorrow so rac pays for me to get a taxi home.

    Sunday next day/up mums at 7 30 in the morning they said they will be there at 8 o'clock, didn't come out till 3 o'clock.
    So rac finds the fault within sec a split fuel filter I thought it was the fuel lines or the fuel pump.

    Rac said me and the wife are very lucky that the petrol didn't spray on the brake discs or on something hot.

    Anyway apart from that car is good just a badly rustid fuel filter.

    Txted the so called dealer about what could of happen and please pay us back threatened him with 2015 sale of goods act after arquing with up and calling us liars etc etc. Then we threatened him with the police, so half hour later he's dosent phone bk tries phoning him we've been blocked, I also check his evay page as he's got about 12 cars on there and Gues what he's gone

    Just my luck...... Pictures will follow soon!

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    Not to big of a problem but yeah I would deffo want to have a free repair especially for the money you paid for it.

    That all said it is just the fuel filter goisong pic one of a scrappy and plum it in sorted.

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    Wonder what the rest of the car is actually like if previous owners or garages couldn’t be bothered to replace the fuel filter which is easy to do
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    It probably was the only thing wrong with it traded in on another car and he sold it on...it's not the first place I've seen doing this sort of stuff on eBay... best thing to do is to get an independent check done on the car so they find everything that is wrong and ask for a quote to have it repaired... than take the appropriate steps to have him pay for it. Sorted.

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    That was what I was planning to do he now has gone off ebay so nowhere to be seen.

    Think generally the car is OK just really badly corrodid
    All fixed now by the rac.. IMG_20190804_130255.jpgIMG_20190804_130250.jpgIMG_20190804_130255.jpgIMG_20190804_125751.jpg

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