TD
The Orcs Den
Sep 2, 2026
Honest review after 12 months of an absolute nightmare after a car purchase...
I purchased a car from JK Car Sales in February 2025. Dealing with the owner and the company itself for the first time, I had no issues. easy to deal with and test drive the cars etc.
I decided to purchase a BMW Grand Tourer, Series 2, 2015 7 seater. (£9100)
about 2 months later, the car went into a drive train malfunction, which conked out half way up a big hill, with all the kids in the car. eventually got it home. part of my 6 month cover allowed me to bring it to other garages, which the warranty confirmed a garage I could.
The garage plugged it in, and found over 90 faults. some minors of course, but majors also. they charged me 90 quid for this as the company doing the warranty from JK wouldn't cover it, tried to get this back from JK car sales themselves, but they ignore the request.
I ended up taking car back to JK car sales, 4 days later or so, he said it was fixed. month later, error came up again (going to my own mechanic, it's clear that they had somewhat wiped messages from the car (again as they obviously did this when selling it to me, again confirmed by the garage). it thankfully went away, and it's back here and there but thankfully didn't stall the car.
However, 10 months later, I've easily spent 3000 on repairs on this heap of junk. so many issues it's insane. I've never owned a car with this amount of issues. extremely stressful considering we are a single income household with 3 kids, not something we can keep throwing money at.
I had to replace battery about 6 months after purchase, then electric handbrake went and calibres, all 4 springs broke, drive shaft broke 3 weeks ago, and several other repairs, totally £3000 in fixes (I still owe 7k on the loan, and the turbo on the car intermittently went about 6 months after purchase, which works 0.5 times out of ten. which I know eventually is going to be a HUGE bill.
I'm in the process of trying to get the car sold now effectively because I just can't afford it anymore. It's gotten that bad, we considering looking at legal routes, as we have evidence from first garage we went to, after the first 2 months of purchase, that a lot of these issues were hidden and existed while the car was being advertised for sale.
Word of warning to anyone considering purchasing: it's clear some of these cars have issues and are essentially just being polished up, with the faults on the computer removed to show face. it's a risk you might walk into, and end up spending thousands upon thousands like I did.
ps. I've never felt compelled to leave a review for any company, but after the absolute nightmare we have had on this car, which has caused unbelievable stress to the family, I felt the need.
Karl