I've had nothing but issues with a second hand car, can I give it back? if so how? - UK
Let me try and keep this short
purchased car from car dealer Nov 2025 - used a personal loan rather than car finance
contacted sellers garage about cruise control issue Dec 2025 - seller garage informed us looks like vehicle has been in collision, and blamed us. Wasn't us, we proved to the garage that it wasn't us and they ended up selling us the car with the damage. They hadn't told us it was in a collision nor did they say they knew. They fixed what they could from the collision.
Recall on car 3-4 months after, we contact same garage we bought it from about booking in for recall update. they tell us we need to contact jag garage, so we do. We book it in, get the system update, same day warning light comes on. Contact jag garage about warning, told us we need to do a £1000 diagnostics to see what issue is, they find issue, fix it for £1284, we get it back 2 1/2 weeks later.
10 days after getting car back from repair, another warning light comes on. Need to pay another £264 diagnosis fee, and then probably another repair fee on top.
we have emailed the garage we bought it off explained everything at the top and referenced our consumers rights act 2015 that the vehicle is not fit for purpose.
I'm very lost and deflated on what to do at this point, i don't want the car, the car recall is a risk of fire due to the battery so i dont trust it. I want to give it back and get my money back. We paid close to 15k and it has dropped down to 9k last time we checked which was 5-6months after purchase. cant sell it, cant afford anything.
i would like a guarantee way of giving the car back so it is no longer my issue, any advice?