Compton Garages

[harryagain]

COMPTON GARAGES.

If you have a Compton garage, it came with a "No quibble ten year guarantee."

However you can forget it. Compton have been taken over by a firm called Lidget & they are now trading under the name Lidget Compton. They are not honouring the Compton guarantee. I have just found this out the hard way, a defect has appeared in my Compton garage (Concrete spalling). I have had the "ring you back" runaround from Lidget Compton but they don't consider themselves liable. Naturally emails are ignored. They too have a ten year guarantee but it is that:-

"if your garage is not still standing within our 10 years of being erected, we'll rebuild it for you".

Presumably any stage of dereliction in between will be ignored

[Paul D Smith]

Surely a call to trading standards or a quick post to uk.legal.moderated is in order? Did Compton actually go bankrupt or were they just bought out? Not sure of the legality but it seems that if they were just bought out, the purchaser ought to accept their liabilities as well as their assets.

Paul DS.

[Peter Parry]

Compton Buildings Ltd became a subsidiary of Marshall's and later went into voluntary liquidation (2010). Lidget Concrete Ltd bought the assets (primarily the name) in 2011 and renamed themselves Lidget Compton. Lifget Compton have no liability for Compton Guarantees.

[fred]

In article , Paul D Smith writes

In liquidation, the liquidator may only have sold the goodwill.

Lidget have been established 20+yrs and added the Compton part to their name earlier this year so it is not a true phoenix conversion.

Maybe the o/p should make a claim on the liquidator? Details on the companies house website.

[Brian Gaff]

The most common advice about these warrantees are to make sure its underwritten by an insurance company and more recently check the terms of underwriting as some are now putting in clauses that state that if the company is no longer trading under the same name or no longer in existence the underwriters reserve the write to not cover the claim. In other words, like most stuff these days, not worth the paper its (under)written on! I've recently had this with windows.

Brian

[geoff]

In message , harryagain writes

Bit of bullshit in the cracks should do it

I'm a Compton Expert, me - spent a year covering brum and welsh hillsides with them

[Nick Paice]

I don't wish to go over the ins and outs of consumer law but in practical t erms LidgetCompton are not in a position to provide an effective repair. Wh ilst their garage panels may bare a similarity they are not compatible with the "original" Compton model. Garage doors spares, springs, locks etc. do not match. Many of these components can only be supplied by specialist comp anies one of which I happen to run. Search for Compton Spares.com

[harryagain]

I don't wish to go over the ins and outs of consumer law but in practical terms LidgetCompton are not in a position to provide an effective repair. Whilst their garage panels may bare a similarity they are not compatible with the "original" Compton model. Garage doors spares, springs, locks etc. do not match. Many of these components can only be supplied by specialist companies one of which I happen to run. Search for Compton Spares.com

Er that's post from over two years ago.

[F]

You do realise you're replying to a post from August 2012...?

[Johny B Good]

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