DPF issues with newly purchased van, need advice
TLDR - van I just bought has dpf issues the seller should have resolved. Repairs are looking £1400+. Do I push for the seller to pay for the repairs as per the conditions in contract of sale? Or just get a refund? Please help!
Bought a van last week. Got a mechanic to go check it out before sale, a couple small ish issues came back, agreed seller would sort before purchase and I’d pay full asking price. We made a contract of sale that details those issues and that he’d sort them (which he did), plus an additional issue with the dpf filter that came up just before I went to see it. His garage sorted the bits that needed replacing and said the van just needed running and higher speed to clear the dpf filter. Seller said that would clear when I drive it home after purchase.
(OBVIOUSLY I should have got him to run the van to clear it BEFORE the sale, but hindsight isn’t foresight sadly.)
On drive home the dpf filter warning light stayed on and the engine went into protective mode, limiting revs to 2k, so I fairly limped home, but having never driven a van before I wasn’t confident as to how abnormal this was or why. An additional yellow warning light and yellow engine light came on en route home.
Local garages recommended taking it to a specialist dpf centre garage for diagnosis (which cost £200 on its own) and they’re saying it’ll be £1400+ in repairs (mainly cleaning ad blue crystals out the dpf filter, replace tubes and attachments, filter and oil change + other bits, full diagnostic report incoming). And that they suspect there will be other issues that they can’t do diagnostics on til these fixes are in place.
It’s my first van and first vehicle purchase and I’m wondering what to do. Do I push the seller to pay for all the necessary repairs cos that’s what we agreed in the contract of sale? How often does this actually happen? The sales already gone thro so I’m not sure if there’s any legal structures in place to support me in this route. The garage said that even with private sellers you have 30 days to basically ask for a refund or get the seller to fix the issues that have come up. Have others heard of this? How likely is this as a solution?
I’m tempted to get a second opinion on repair costs and the extent of what’s needed. But then I’d wanna just get the necessary repairs done and have the seller cover the cost. Is that realistic? Any help really appreciated.
Van is a Peugeot Boxer 2018 🙏🏼