Beware of this company!!!
Beware of this company!!!
Were happy to sell me an unroadworthy and dangerous vehicle knowing I got 2 young children in the car.
Nothing but problems from the day I bought, was taken back multiple times, tried to reject before 30 days but was fobbed off by Empressive and Family Finance. Was promised the car would be repaired but it didn’t, they held the car for several weeks just so it would go past the 30 days. Promised me courtesy car as I had no way to take my kids to school, came to collect my car from my work place and lied about the courtesy car and had to make my own way home. Luckily the delivery driver was nice and gave me a lift home. Got the car back after several weeks with the same issues on the car.
Went back again after the whole suspension snapped and the car dropped on a certain mountain road with the kids in the car. Took them a week to arrange to look at my vehicle. Wanted me to drive it up there and it was my responsibility. So in the end they wouldn’t collect and I had to pay for a recovery truck to deliver car to them. Once again had a few weeks, they did repair the suspension and discs but I mentioned the smoking, clutch and the paint work which was promised from day one. I collected the car, when I checked my tracker it had been driven to and from an address in Tredegar without my knowledge. They need my permission to do this and when I confronted them about this he just made loads of excuses and lies.
Took the car back and yet again smoking bad, clutch burning, and the steering/suspension bad. Took the car again to get repaired but fobbed me off once again saying it was condensation, they wouldn’t replace a 67 plate car with that many miles with a new engine as they didn’t want to spend thousands. Garage manager told me he’d plug vehicle in, check smoke, suspension and clutch. Spoke to me like rubbish and gave me stupid examples why they wouldn’t repair my vehicle being very condescending. Took car back with same issues again.
Went to Family Finance who instructed Empressive to do an engineer report. Came back, the report was very biased with the garage, siding with them, with loads of mistakes, a fake address and no sign of the engineer being accredited. Family Finance agreed with this report and wanted me to carry on paying my payments as normal.
I arranged for a professional engineer who is highly accredited and I got his number through the correct means and through the accredited websites itself.
I had to pay for this myself, when the engineer checked my car he refused to test drive it and said it’s unroadworthy and unsafe. Empressive wouldn’t accept this and not would family finance.
In the end family finance agreed to do a third and final report. They got Dekra to do this. Once again the engineer would not test drive the vehicle as he deemed it unroadworthy and unsafe. Oil leaking everywhere which Empressive said that was when they topped it up (this is seen in previous reviews) loads of codes pulled up which they tried to hide. I’ve attached reports to see how bad the vehicle actually is. What they were doing was everytime I was taking the vehicle back they were topping up the engine with fresh oil as the vehicle was drinking and wiping out the oil warning light from the ecu.
In the end family finance pushed for rejection, which I eventually got after months of stress! Empressive was not happy with this and accused me over the phone of tampering with the vehicle which I got a recording of. They wanted money back for mileage until I said the garage has had the car more than me and done more miles in it. I haven’t driven it in months and had to pay a fortune in taxis and lifts etc with no help from them.
After basically arguing back and forth with Family Finance, they refunded me my finance payments and got my Car collected this Monday. Funnily enough Empressive got the car up for sale 2 days later on the Wednesday. They definitely wouldn’t have fixed the issues seeing as it’s up cheaper than what I paid for it.
Empressive are currently withholding my deposit!!!
Tread cautiously!!!
Please take an engineer with you to inspect the vehicles, don’t pay deposit, if you do use a credit card!
If you want the pictures of the vehicle and its reports please message me. Also the defects and code readings.
The Car is currently up for sale 2 days after handing it back.
Peugeot 3008 CN67ZWL Red
They have deleted my Facebook review and blocked me. Still withholding my deposit. Something to hide Empressive?!?!
17. November 2025
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