Waste of time over a week
I have been looking for a car for my other half we were going to trade in and refinance, had the finance in place found a (car the 2 series BMW in blue on there site) contacted them to show the interest and to let them know we were financed and ready to go and would like to pick the car up at the weekend, which he said yes that will be fine if the finance company have everything in place, I called my finance company who said it wouldn't be a problem to get it sorted out for the weekend, so got the ball rolling now this is where the issues start, welcome cars didn't sent the paperwork they needed to and they also left the car to be moted on the Friday, which is never the best idea if a retest is needed we were told we would get a phone call at 4pm Friday to let us know what was going on, nothing happened no phone call we tried to call them but no answer we texted them nothing, my finance company were waiting to pay them out but as they didn't have the paperwork they needed from welcome cars they couldn't, so we though we wouldn't hear anything that eve so had a look on the gov. Website to see what the most issues were, this car still did have 3 months of not on it, the first things it needed 2 tyres and the second a cracked alloy wheel, what I find bad is I know this car has been with them a while, if a cash customer came in to buy this car and didn't ask welcome cars to put an MOT on it they would have been buying a car with illegal! Tyres and a cracked wheel which could lose all its pressure at anytime. I called welcome cars this morning and the car dealer I won't say his name just yet was just like he didn't care or even know we wanted to pick the car up this weekend, we told him we wanted to this weekend and so did my finance company, he then told me the car would he ready mid week, I asked him how he was fixing the most issues he responded with we will put 4 new tyres on at a guess these would be cheap non run flat tyres which isn't an issue but when I asked about the alloy a wheel which would be hard to find a matching one as the are M wheels was told it would be replaced, I'm thinking he would just go with the cheap way and getting it welded, which I would not expect a car with welded alloy wheels as only certain cracks can be welded and I still would not drive any car with alloys that have been welded it's just a time bomb, so now we have found ourselves looking for an other car from somewhere else and this has been a massive waste of time, we had even sorted out the change of insurance as we had no indication we wouldn't be picking up the car at the weekend which was at our cost, so unless welcome cars fix this car to a high standard and do something to make myself and otherhalf happy and that we haven't wasted so much time to sort a deal out I must say with what's happened to us steer well clear of welcome cars.
I also have a you tube channel which I do reviews on and I will be reviewing this experience on there.
4 December 2021
Unprompted review