Evening all.
Our business bought an ex-lease T6 panel van (T30) six months back. It was sold with some faults, has ended up in court - hearing in a couple of weeks. I’ve posted about various bits here and there on the forum.
The questionable business which sold the vehicle has recently uploaded blatantly-doctored diagnostics to the court in their defence. All very strange…
The latest mystery is that the RPM-linked whining from the engine has drawn our attention to the power steering fluid reservoir: it has a green lid, but red fluid.
We have a full service history from the leasing company which owned it from new. It is fairly granular, but there is not a single mention of power steering fluid being changed.
I can think of a few reasons that the fluid could be red, but none of them seem very likely:
1. The red ATF has been in there since 2017 and this van is special and doesn’t take green synthetic, or,
2. Someone at the previous company repaired a PS leak, refilled the system with red ATF, but it wasn’t done as part of the lease service contract (potentially a breakdown repair), or,
3. the dodgy people who sold us the van and falsified a diagnostic for court also provided a fake service history?
According to the history we have the battery was replaced 10,000 miles ago - but it was already failing and I swapped it. It also had new clutch, new brakes and cambelt, according to the history
Does option #2 seem the most likely? Can you think of others?
Our business bought an ex-lease T6 panel van (T30) six months back. It was sold with some faults, has ended up in court - hearing in a couple of weeks. I’ve posted about various bits here and there on the forum.
The questionable business which sold the vehicle has recently uploaded blatantly-doctored diagnostics to the court in their defence. All very strange…
The latest mystery is that the RPM-linked whining from the engine has drawn our attention to the power steering fluid reservoir: it has a green lid, but red fluid.
We have a full service history from the leasing company which owned it from new. It is fairly granular, but there is not a single mention of power steering fluid being changed.
I can think of a few reasons that the fluid could be red, but none of them seem very likely:
1. The red ATF has been in there since 2017 and this van is special and doesn’t take green synthetic, or,
2. Someone at the previous company repaired a PS leak, refilled the system with red ATF, but it wasn’t done as part of the lease service contract (potentially a breakdown repair), or,
3. the dodgy people who sold us the van and falsified a diagnostic for court also provided a fake service history?
According to the history we have the battery was replaced 10,000 miles ago - but it was already failing and I swapped it. It also had new clutch, new brakes and cambelt, according to the history
Does option #2 seem the most likely? Can you think of others?
