A car dealer has been sentenced after being convicted of selling the same dangerously defective car on two separate occasions.
A car dealer has been fined £1,000 by magistrates after an investigation by trading standards officers prompted by complaints from members of the public.
A car dealer from Omagh has been found guilty at Newry Crown Court of advertising and selling 'clocked' cars including reducing the mileage of a VW Scirocco by 52,000 miles.
The owner of a Warrington garage has received a 12-month sentence after an investigation led by the trading standards service of a local council.
A used car dealer from South Wales has been jailed after selling a vehicle in a “dangerous condition”.
An Essex car dealer has been fined after admitting selling an unroadworthy Nissan Pathfinder described by magistrates as a 'death trap'.
Multiple used car dealers in Luton have been fined thousands of pounds by Trading Standards after trying to sell vehicles with outstanding recalls.
A nest containing live rats and weeds growing from a vehicle’s bodywork were among the discoveries of a Trading Standards investigation into used car retailers.
Deceiving customers into believing cars it sold were compliant with London's ULEZ restrictions has led to £65,483 in charges for Hilton Car Supermarket in Hayes.
Luscombe Motors managing director Robin Luscombe has insisted that the Police and Trading Standards should “pick and choose” the fraud cases they investigate after falling foul of a car clocking sales scam.
Car buyers have been warned to be on their guard as Trading Standards track a bogus online retailer demanding full payment to secure next day delivery of vehicles which never arrive.
A used car salesman has been ordered to complete 250 hours of unpaid work after claiming ‘ill health’ had prevented him from keeping company records - when he had deliberately disposed of them.
A Doncaster car dealer who sold mis-sold a previously written-off Vauxhall Corsa and misrepresented 33 more cars has been handed and 18-month suspended prison sentence.
A fraudulent car dealer who clocked-up £190,000 in sales has been issued with a suspended prison sentence and an order to repay over £33,000 in proceeds of crime.
Further clarification on the legality of car sales test drive provision has prompted rendered the decision over whether to offer customers contact with vehicles “a purely moral decision”, it has been claimed.
The Scottish Motor Trade Association (SMTA) has warned that Trading Standards operatives will be checking up on car retail operations to ensure test drives are not illegally conducted during COVID-19 ‘Lockdown 3’.
A Trading Standards investigation has exposed almost £350,000 worth of faults on used cars offered for sale by dealers in the South West of the England.
Father and son directors of a used car dealership have been banned from running companies after they put Car Place Birmingham into liquidation without paying fines incurred in Trading Standards prosecutions.
Saxton 4x4 have been fined £27,375 and ordered to pay £37,375 in costs after a Trading Standards investigation uncovered evidence of “deliberate mis-selling” and “very poor business practices”.
A team of fraudulent used car salesman who threatened to break the legs of one complaining customer and told another that it would “strangle” Trading Standards officers have avoided jail.
