M Ltd v ND [2025] NZDT 277 (10 July 2025) [pdf, 174 KB]
...Dealership] driver getting in the car and driving away without any evidence of smoke coming out of the exhaust. There is no evidence to persuade me that the pistons and rings had failed or that the car was blowing smoke at the time the contract was formed. ND was driving the car around without observing any problems. c) I find that it is more likely that the car developed a problem on the way to [City 2] and this problem may have been exacerbated by continuing to drive the car for anothe...