mmm
shirley, i can call you shirley? any contract like that has a cooling off period?
(little lord muthafuckin fauntleroy, Fri 22 May 2009, 0:53, 1 reply)

You...
...my darling, can call me anything you like.

No, as this was my main thought. If you sign on the dealer's premesis, then the cooling off period does not apply.

All I could do was report them to the FSA or take them to court, but this would have taken time and money as it was basically my word against theirs.

Still it all worked out in the end. I have a far superior car, and it's not made by cheese eating surrender monkeys.

As I said, I do still facepalm myself for my own twattery.
( Undercovercarrot got done for gross misconduct on..., Fri 22 May 2009, 4:13, closed)

I would have
not paid a penny and waited for THEM to take ME to court.
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Fri 22 May 2009, 11:39, closed)

True
but you still have the problem of it's their word against yours. There was no guarantee that I would have won, and in the meantime my credit rating would have been beaten like a ginger stepchild.

So, I manned the fuck up, learnt my lesson and moved on.
( Undercovercarrot got done for gross misconduct on..., Fri 22 May 2009, 16:05, closed)