Hi all,
I hope I can get your opinions and advice.
I recently in the last month traded in my mk2 cupra for 2014 cupra 280 from a dealership up north , what name just yet. We had a few issue which when I purchase the car they failed to register the car in my name? Which we finally resolved, well sort I received the log book but they have imputed my name incorrectly. Which I am now in the process of sorting.
Anyway, I have been enjoying my new purchase and while looking at instagram found the dealership instagram account. So I followed them and while doing so found my new car still in the post section. To my horror, I found thta the car had been had a stage 1 remap , which they included in their list of hash tags. I originally found the car on auto trader website and then checked their own website out. There was nothing at all in the advert to advise that this had a performance software on the car.
As you can imagine, when purchasing something from a authorised seat dealership you expect that they would not being selling a modified car and more to the point be transparent in their advert regarding this.
On top of that, I have insured the car as being standard , which was the case to my acknowledgement, based on their own advert and purely not aware of this performance software, which they did not state or upfront about.
Then next concern is that I purchased extended warranty on the car to give me 3 years peace of mind and concerned now that anything which goes wrong will just be refused because of this stage 1 remap, which I did not perform myself.
It is also not clear weather the car has been reverted back to standard form while in their possession before selling onto to me?
I have emailed the dealership with the screen shots of the instagram post but a cornering email to clarify this but had no response.
If I was aware from the start that the car had been remapped , I would not have purchased it, as I don't not know what software has been uploaded on to the estate ecu and how the car was treated by the previous owner. He only had it a year , so chances are not well.
What should be my next step ? Any help much welcomed.
I hope I can get your opinions and advice.
I recently in the last month traded in my mk2 cupra for 2014 cupra 280 from a dealership up north , what name just yet. We had a few issue which when I purchase the car they failed to register the car in my name? Which we finally resolved, well sort I received the log book but they have imputed my name incorrectly. Which I am now in the process of sorting.
Anyway, I have been enjoying my new purchase and while looking at instagram found the dealership instagram account. So I followed them and while doing so found my new car still in the post section. To my horror, I found thta the car had been had a stage 1 remap , which they included in their list of hash tags. I originally found the car on auto trader website and then checked their own website out. There was nothing at all in the advert to advise that this had a performance software on the car.
As you can imagine, when purchasing something from a authorised seat dealership you expect that they would not being selling a modified car and more to the point be transparent in their advert regarding this.
On top of that, I have insured the car as being standard , which was the case to my acknowledgement, based on their own advert and purely not aware of this performance software, which they did not state or upfront about.
Then next concern is that I purchased extended warranty on the car to give me 3 years peace of mind and concerned now that anything which goes wrong will just be refused because of this stage 1 remap, which I did not perform myself.
It is also not clear weather the car has been reverted back to standard form while in their possession before selling onto to me?
I have emailed the dealership with the screen shots of the instagram post but a cornering email to clarify this but had no response.
If I was aware from the start that the car had been remapped , I would not have purchased it, as I don't not know what software has been uploaded on to the estate ecu and how the car was treated by the previous owner. He only had it a year , so chances are not well.
What should be my next step ? Any help much welcomed.
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