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Buyer made to sign "trade sale" form by dealer to evade statutory rights
I just took my son to buy his first car. Does he have the same statutory rights as a normal buyer? We put down a £100 deposit on an N-reg Peugeot 306 1.4 (full price £695 - the MoT expires in April, the tax in July), but when I came home I noticed my son had signed a "trade-sale" form. In the small print it says, "I the undersigned purchaser declare that I am a motor dealer and I am purchasing the above vehicle as seen. I agree to forego any statutory rights in relation to the vehicle's fitness for purpose and satisfactory quality implied under the Sale of Goods Act 1979 (as amended)." My son is not a trader, just a normal buyer. I think the dealer has done this to reclaim VAT and so on. I have seen the history service book stamped, but there are no receipts.
The Sale of Goods Act does not apply to cars of this age and price, because they are virtually scrap and it is completely unreasonable to assume that they will not develop any faults within six months. We have been made aware, however, of a chain of supersites that is trying the same trick with relatively new cars at retail prices. This needs a legal challenge and we are undertaking further investigations.
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