Car buying possibly gone wrong?

[mosesbotbol]

I am with mhailey on this. Did he say "clean CarFax" or no claims? Plenty of stuff can happen to a car and never make it to CarFax.

It's easy to tell when used a car salesperson is lying, they're lips are moving...

What do you want to happen in all of this? Do you want to return the car?

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Originally Posted by mosesbotbol

I am with mhailey on this. Did he say "clean CarFax" or no claims? Plenty of stuff can happen to a car and never make it to CarFax.

It's easy to tell when used a car salesperson is lying, they're lips are moving...

What do you want to happen in all of this? Do you want to return the car?

I prably would return it if I had the option. It's not that I am hating the car, it's the fact that I don't like buying wrecked cars and not knowing it. I don't buy cars very often and tend to keep them forever. Even though I kinda know that a carfax don't have everything sometimes it's still kinda in your mind when someone says it's clean that he is certainly implying that the car has never been wrecked. I didn't record the converstation obviously but I also have it floating around in my head that when he says it has a clean carfax I says then it's never been wrecked and that's good, and then he didn't say anything to the contrary. I realize being dishonest in and of itself isn't against the law and that there may be nothing I can do. Had I known that the car had been wrecked then I could have either said show me some other cars or tried to negotiate a better deal. Mhailey and you are probably right. Not seriously considering a lawsuit anyway, just wondering if there was any leverage with the dealership to complain and maybe get something out of the deal to make it right that he was dishonest. I have also talked to a friend of mine that has been selling cars for years and he tends to agree with you as well, but he also says that since the guy was the owner of the car, he felt like heknew that he didn't have a police report on the wreck so he used that to sell the car as clean with no wrecks even though he knew it had been. that is my major problem with the whole thing. If the dealership had aquired this car the normal way and it had a clean carfax and I had found out about the damage then we would be having this conversation, but the salesman owned the car and KNEW it had been wrecked and chose to hype the carfax anyway and not disclose the damage.