If I could give no stars would do, naively bought a Discovery 3 HSE off this garage, bought over the internet, turned up fairly late at night having flown in from Norway. Straight away bald tyre noticed, drove around for a bit not too bad, I was told I had a life time warrenty for the ownership of the vehicle, the only reason I bought it from them, within a week problems started to appear Coolent leaks, HDC faults, shocks, brakes etc... absolute nightmare car, over the two years I owned the vehicle I put 7000 miles on it. Took it to a LR Dealer recently 1000's to fix all problems Early on tried to get in touch with their salesman fobbed me off at every stage,never gave me the promised warrenty unfortunately I live in Dundee and work away a lot so could'nt just pop around I'm seeing it as a lesson learnt, obviously the hard way. Hopefully you will learn from my mistake. Avoid at all costs I cannot stress that enough. Allied Trade Sales unbelievable.

BUYER BE VERY AWARE!!! Brought a car for £7500 in Feb 2010, a lot of money to my young family. Then a fault light appeared next day. Took to dealer as it was a serious fault light. 4 hours later, £3500 quote for works to be done. ATS (Richard Dolan) refused to believe this and eventually sent his “tame” yet aggressive mechanic to view the car. Mechanic found the same issues and more, and sent report to Richard Dolan. I even offered to get the work done at a local garage rather than main dealer…. Various letters were sent to Richard Dolan and various promises to pay or assist were made, but never followed through. Various sob stories from Richard, “we’re closing down” “no sales” etc. However still trading and stock flowing via there website, and undercover calls made to view cars and he is still trading. Took Allied Trade Sales and Richard Dolan to court, court judging in my favour. However no action from him, no payments made. I attended court, Richard Dolan was a no show but sent a letter stating that he had offered assistance but I had declined……absolute horseradish. So had to spend £1500 getting the car road legal, money which I didn’t have. Sent bailiffs to his Wood Street address, but they were turned away as he said that ATS had no assets. The man just doesn’t care. He comes across as really friendly and caring but purchase from him with extreme caution. He is associated with another company called Allied Vehicle Consultants also based in Swindon. So, he has a County Court Judgement against his name and he can only clear that by paying me. I would strongly suggest that all do the same. I do have his home address if further legal paperwork needs serving.

Bought a car in Feb, got it home and that evening noticed a serious fault, contact Richard at Allied straight away and was advised, get the work done locally (we do not live that close to Swindon) and we will sort out the payment, big mistake, 6 weeks later and several polite e-mails to them, still no money. Also did not receive the paint they promised. Seemed very nice at the time, but once money was received, forget it. Not worth taking to small claims court but if this review stops one other person making the same mistake, hey, thats great, buyer be warned!