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fixing a flat tire on my heavy duty hay wagon. the tires are very unreliable i need to get a different brand or heavyer ones. i am looki8ng at5 ...

!!!!! URGENT, CAR SALESMEN DRAMA !!!!!?

Dec 15, 2009 by justice4jcc | Posted in Buying & Selling

Okay, I am an American. I have been in South Africa for about 8 months. My friend here decided to go into farming. She owns a car, not what you realistically need for farming. We decided to buy a truck. Our price range was about 40.000 Rand which buy the way is about 5,000 U.S.. So we drive 3 hours to the closets city which is Capetown find a truck that has farm capabilities. We live in the sandvelt so we have to have 4 wheel drive. We looked for 2 days and found two trucks. The first was a Colt with 235,000 miles and a Isuzu with about the same. My friend decided to get the Isuzu as that is the vehilce of choice with farmers here. Most every farmer here we talked to swore by them. We get the truck home for 42,000 Rand and with a paper stating that it has passed the road worthy test, which by law here it has too pass or back until it does. That was friday. Monday my friend goes into town and I tell her well you should see about the oil it needs to be changed, as well as it is leaking from the pan and possibly some place else. Annelie took the truck to the local garage. He told her that the drivers side outer CV joint is completely damaged as well as the lower ball joint. The guy told her that the engine would have to be taken out to get to the leak. So I called the car salesmen back. I told him what the garage said. I said to him, look George the garage says that there is no way this truck passed the road worthy test. Then I told him why. George tells me bring the truck in, I will see what the problem is. I tell him okay I will be coming in this week. This morning I went to get cigarettes from the next town over. It is to early and nothing is open there yet. Its a little town called Liepoltville, if you blink you will miss it. So I wait outside the one store for a bit then decided to go to the other to see if they were open yet. Of course not right?! So I see they,re garage is open. I have met this gentlemen before and I believe he is honest so I now want his opinion about the truck. He tells me the same thing as the other guy except worse. He says the truck should not be driven to Capetown. He told me that the ball joint is extremely dangerous and that also there is absolutely no way this truck passed the road worthy test.

This is where the Drama really starts. Okay we had a verbal agreement with this car salesmen, that for the money we spent that he would sent the car through the inspection to make it road worthy. The guy at the second garage said to me, the tires on this truck would not have passed the test.

Can anyone please help, should we just fix the truck ourselves?
This is africa, these guys can just pay someone to get the truck passed, which is usually the case here.

In the contract for the truck it says "as is" but we have this verbel thing that for the money we spent he would take it through the road worthy inspection.

To me there should be someone higher than them to deal with.
The real problem is that by word of all the farmers I spoke about and the two garages that we took it to (we have not had the truck a week yet) all say that most all of these parts for this type of vehicle have to be Isuzu parts if not they will not hold up on the farm, the ball joint replaced with a cheaper part will only last 3 or so months out here in the sandvelt. But this carsales men is not going to put anything more than the cheapest parts.

Here in the USA, when you buy a vehicle "As Is", that is exactly what you get."As is, the way sits" Unless you have a promise of work to be done in writing, forget about it! Verbal agreements should be upheld but sad to say, most people will only honor agreements in writing. There are exceptions to that but only a few. I don't how all that applies in Africa but I expect it to be the same.