A used car dealer whose payments for privately-bought stock cars repeatedly came up short has been ordered to pay £15,000 in compensation and issued with a six-month suspended jail sentence.
The National Association of Motor Auctions (NAMA) is urging fleets to provide more information about vehicles they de-fleet through its members’ sites.
Motor Codes’ codes of practice for service and repair, vehicle warranty products and new cars have all met the stringent requirements of the Chartered Trading Standards Institute Consumer Codes Approval Scheme.
A used car dealer and his former mechanic have been jailed after trading standards services uncovered evidence of clocked cars, forged documents and knowingly “misdescribed” vehicles.
Used car dealers are being urged to make vehicle history checks standard on all stock.
A pair of car dealers have been fined after used car they sold was repossessed from its new owner due an outstanding finance payment of £900.
An investigation by Devon and Somerset Trading Standards into the region’s used car dealers resulted in a total of 13 cars withdrawn from sale following visits to 18 forecourts.
A car dealer has been handed a 12 week suspended prison sentence after selling a potentially dangerous car while posing as a private seller.
A used car dealer found to have clocked cars, forged documents and knowingly “misdescribed” vehicles has pleaded guilty to fraud following an investigation by trading standards officials.
The IGA’s Trust My Garage (TMG) Consumer Code of Practice has received final approval from The Chartered Trading Standards Institute.
Newbury car dealer Daniel Stokesberry was fined more than £20,000 after selling five unroadworthy vehicles.
Despite being billed as the biggest change to consumer law for more than a century and with the spotlight on car dealers, why is the impending Consumer Rights Act barely raising an eyebrow?
A car service sting by Trading Standards found "multiple failings" at a Halfords Autocentre site and led to fines and costs totalling almost £47,000.
The deadline for the implementation of the ADR Directive into UK law is July 9, 2015, yet few dealers, if any, have heard of it let alone implemented it.
