IANAL, and this is primarily opinion, but... When a car dealership takes a trade in, they have mechanics on-site to check the car out. I am sure that they did their own little diagnostic on it before they took it as trade in. I mean, their business is cars right? They should know how to spot a good or bad car and how to evaluate a car's trade in value based on that.
If you'd hidden the one problem from them, that would be one thing, but you told theme 100% of what you knew at the time, that there appeared to be a problem, but that when checked out, nothing was found. Most car dealers are are pretty shady folks, and they will stick it to you just about any way they can. In this case, they got the short end of the stick and they didn't like it. Too bad. You sold them the car fair and square and they had every opportunity, and (supposedly) the expertise to check out the car mechanically. I'd say you are totally in the right here to insist on keeping the deal as is. I don't think they can legally take the car back from you, but I don't really know the laws in your state. -Cameron On 11/16/05, Raymond Camden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, two weeks ago, my car died while my wife was driving. The tow > truck guy started it up no problem. We brought it to the car repair > shop. They did a full check, and while they were able to reproduce a > problem once, they found -0- wrong with it. They did a transmission > check as well. I mean, they checked -everything-. > > So, after the shop had it for 4 days and found nothing (oh, and they > drove it every day w/ no problem), we decided we would just trade it > in. At the new car place, I kinda mentioned the problem, but said that > nothing was wrong. That was dumb of me, but, was honest. That night, > we traded in the car and bought a new car. One that wasn't cheap. > > My sales guy called me today. He said the transmission died on them > and that his boss was mad and said we shouldn't have gotten the trade > in amount that we did. > > Now - I feel like I was honest. I had told him we had had it in the > shop, and that they didn't find anything, but my wife just wasn't > comfortable. We just called the repair shop again. They confirmed they > checked the transmission and that it was ok, and that -everything- > about the car seemed fine. > > So... question is... am I in trouble? Can the new car place make us > return our car, or is this just 'bad luck' for them? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:182474 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
