Jelly_Sheffield
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
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I bought a RallyMig 161i a few months ago as a more portable companion to the KME550 (which is portable in the same way a pallet of bricks is).
The only reason I bought it was that it had just had a "clean bill of health" from [major approved service center].
Didn't have cause to use it until today, helping to weld up a Landrover bulkhead...
Lo and behold the display PCB is failed, so I can't set any parameters... It's a well known fault from the sounds of it, with a £200+ repair cost.
Rooting frantically through the manual for an explanation of how to turn the display on, I found the test report which is indeed "clean", but has a note at the bottom of the report:
"intermittent issue with encoder/display but not worth looking into due to cost"
To my mind, there's no way that should have been declared serviceable and prominently marked as such, and I am pretty ******.
No recourse to the seller as it was sold as seen, but I am debating challenging [major approved service center] and seeing if they will make good the problem.
Fully expect to get short shrift, but it feels like even if they were not party to the sellers deception (and with a note like that I firmly believe a "mate just sell it before it totally goes" carpark conversion happened), should at least have been cognizant that marking a known defective item as fit for use was liable to result in deception...
Am I being unreasonable?
Edit:
Yes, I am partially at fault for trusting the sticker and not insisting on seeing the full test report.
The only reason I bought it was that it had just had a "clean bill of health" from [major approved service center].
Didn't have cause to use it until today, helping to weld up a Landrover bulkhead...
Lo and behold the display PCB is failed, so I can't set any parameters... It's a well known fault from the sounds of it, with a £200+ repair cost.
Rooting frantically through the manual for an explanation of how to turn the display on, I found the test report which is indeed "clean", but has a note at the bottom of the report:
"intermittent issue with encoder/display but not worth looking into due to cost"
To my mind, there's no way that should have been declared serviceable and prominently marked as such, and I am pretty ******.
No recourse to the seller as it was sold as seen, but I am debating challenging [major approved service center] and seeing if they will make good the problem.
Fully expect to get short shrift, but it feels like even if they were not party to the sellers deception (and with a note like that I firmly believe a "mate just sell it before it totally goes" carpark conversion happened), should at least have been cognizant that marking a known defective item as fit for use was liable to result in deception...
Am I being unreasonable?
Edit:
Yes, I am partially at fault for trusting the sticker and not insisting on seeing the full test report.
