Has anyone else had bad dealings with North Road Motors up in Finglas?

Note to the moderator: I'm well aware that I have to be careful with what I say in this post incase of anything that could be considered defamatory against North Road Motors. Any claim I make can and will be factually verified with evidence.

I've been having problem after problem with this dealership since I bought a corsa from them on June 13th. The problems began right from when I walked through the front door. The sales rep - who I won't name directly, but will refer to him as Mr. A - told me there was zero problems with the car as it had been regurlarly serviced due to the previous owner of the car having connection to an individual working there - this is also why there was never a written service record kept, as the previous owner of the corsa was never charged for any work that may have been carried out on it.

When the car was delivered to me a few days after purchase, it had a flat tyre when it was delivered, the engine management light was activated and later that day I observed a leak from the radiator - So much for the incredible service history the car had that their sales rep was only happy to tell me about.

I made North Road Motors aware of this, and in fairness to them - they said bring it in when you get the chance. I told them as the tax is out, I'll wait until the logbook arrives and sort the tax out first so it's road legal.

Nearly 2 months later, I'm still waiting for the logbook. I won't speculate on my reasons as to why I assume it's taken so long, but I'm sure you, the reader, are clever enough to put two and two together.

NRM weren't returning calls or giving me a direct answer as to why there was such a delay, nor why no change of vehicle ownership has been notified to the department of transport in the past 3 months. It was only after I sent Donedeal an email (NRM advertised the car through Donedeal) and Donedeal decided to open a complaint investigation into the matter and the NRM promptly told them to sort it out, with the response from them being it's being sorted, it'd be out this week.

I find an email then today from NRM saying it's sent out, and I can stop by for a copy if I like. I rang them up and told them I don't care for a copy of the logbook registered in the previous owners name, I paid for my car and for my car to be registered in my name. I told them at this point, they can refund me the money and come collect the car on Friday, or I can get Bank Of Ireland to issue me a chargeback and they can collect the car after the remainder of the deposit (Which was paid in cash and is on the receipt) is made available to me. For legal reasons, I'm not going to quote what the 'gentleman' on the phone said to me when I put this to him, but his response felt slightly intimidating and that NRM weren't taking the issue seriously whatsoever.

I decided then at this point to take the car to my own mechanic and fork out money on repairs because after the dealings I've had with them, I don't trust them to carry out any work on my car.

Has anyone else had problems with them? Did you find trying to communicate with them is like drawing blood from a stone?

Now I didn't just come here to rant lol - If I have to go the long route by getting whatever form it is from Shannon and through a Comissioner of Oaths, has anyone thats had to do this had any success afterwards in claiming for finanicial losses & compensation in the Courts?

I want to know whether I have ground for any sort of civil case against them, most particularly with needing to pay for repairs out of my own expense because it's my claim that they delivered a faulty non-road legal vehicle, leaving me without any way to bring it into them under repairs for warranty, and Mr. A clearly hiding information about the cars condition from me