Right, lets put this one to bed.
I had no valid reason to reject the car at the time of purchase.
However I was not best pleased to find out the extent of the invasive repairs that were carried out during the 3 months prior to my purchase, during the ownership of the previous owner.
To be fair, you could not fault the service provided by the OPC to correct the faults for the previous owner which were well documented and in the public domain at the time.
But I would have thought, that had the car been thoroughly prepared for re-sale after the original owner part exchanged it, then the root cause of the water ingress would have been identified & corrected. This surprises me as the drain tubes concerned are a well known achilles heel for all Boxsters.
I was perhaps misled and/or not given the full facts as to why the car was being resold after 3 months, especially as I asked specifically why on more than one occasion. I am still getting mixed messages from the OPC regarding this.
I would have preferred to have been told about the repairs prior to purchase, then I could have made an informed judgement whether to buy or not to buy, based on that knowledge.
I would have sought assurances prior to purchase that the repairs were covered by the existing warranty.
This is what I now have, in writing, from the OPC.
So on one hand the OPC had gone to considerable lengths to get the car to where it was when it was presented to me or even for the acceptance of the previous owner for that matter.
On the other, their salesmanship practices in one specific area has tainted the whole process somewhat and one would hope there is a lesson to be learned here.
So hopefully, the previous owners' 3 months of pain, will be my gain.
The car looks great, goes great (though not really "tested" it yet) and so hopefully will turn out to be a really good purchase.
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