Chassis Number Failure From Peugeot
I have a 2005 model Peugeot 307cc car, Last year I decided to sell the car. And someone liked the car and gave me some deposit.After my personel examination of pre-sales I realized that the Certification of tha car from TÜV is expired. I took an appointment and sent the car with a driver for certification. At the examination they have determined that the number etched on the chassis is different from the number both on the engine and on the window. And on all of the documents of the car the number on the engine and window were written but according to the law in such situations they only take into the number on the Chassis. So the numbers on the Chassis were not similar with the documents. After this determination, they locked the car in the garrage and contacted police, becouse they taught the car might be stolen but after some phone calls and checking from internet, they informed me that the car was not stolen and told me to contact necessary legal authorities to clear the issue, but they did not approve the car by the way. I will not go more details but later on I have contacted all necessary legal departments and they have done very detailed examinations with the help of a Univercity labarotory, and than they contacted Peugeot France and recieved a legal reply from them that this is a production mistake. In the final report they gave me from the Univercity, it was saying that this is a production failure and the number etched on the chassis should be corrected by Police department.
This report was not satisfactory for since everyone knows that all around the world if you are selling a second hand car, the chassis number will be checked although it will be corrected, when the buyer sees signs of correction or hears about the story, he will definately not buy the car. Even if I offered the car free, again noone would recieve the car since this is a complicated and a very risky issue.
After this point I have contacted Peugeot personally and asked them to replace the car with a similar one or pay me back my Money. But I have never been able to get a reply, spending so much time on the phone waiting for them to solve the issue, or at least offer me a solution.
Than I contacted with my lawyer and he again tried many times to solve the issue before court but
Again he was not replied.
So I went to court, and waiting fort he judge to decide.
My complaint is that Peugeot is behaving so much unresponsible although they know their fault and accepted. But they are not acting accordingly when it comes to consequences.
Despite the apparent failure Peugeot constantly using the legal defense as an excuse. Jurisdiction to decide the result.