Unfairly treated by old employers

[Tophermac]

I’ve worked for a local plumbing firm before a new start At another company.. I had no vehicle so the owner of the company lent me the run around car. On receiving what I thought was a charitable gesture I asked if the car was in good working order. The response to the question was “ yes we’ve just had it serviced and it’s in full working order”
I worked for three weeks using the car only once privately on round trip of 18 miles to see my mum and the car suffered a catastrophic engine failure due to the fact it had been running with no oil for quite sometime.. again I had only been using this vehicle for only three weeks and in this time no engine light came on to warn me of the impending failure … I was also told the key battery had been changed and it hadn’t so nearly missed a days work as well..
I have left this company and have now been at my latest location for nearly 4 months and I’ve now received a bill for 2400 for the car that was written off due to poor maintenance apparently on my part… p.s I also had to pay my own insurance and petrol for the three week duration of employment…
Should I pay the price of the car?

[atticus]

Do you think you should?

If you can back up what you say, surely the answer is no.

[des8]

[QUOTE=Tophermac;n1651539.
............. the car suffered a catastrophic engine failure due to the fact it had been running with no oil for quite sometime........
. [/QUOTE]

Most unlikely!
An internal combustion engine will run (very badly) for a maximum of 30 minutes (usually much less) without oil.

Did you not check the oil level at all during those three weeks?

[tesla6518]

Is it not the law , that it is the drivers responsibility, to ensure that the vehicle is in a roadworthy condition before driving off: Lights, tyres,water,oil.