Guys,
I bought my Evo about 4 months ago as my daily toy between the NSX. I noticed the paint was rough an gritty to my fingers in areas as as I washed it. The surface just felt like it needed a clay bar or something. Finally I get a call from the dealer 4 months later from the sales manager telling that the car was damaged while in the manufactures possession and it had a letter with it that documented the damage which was supposedly a busted window or something small. The buyer was supposed to be shown this list BEFORE buying and would sign acknowlging the damage and get an additional 1K discount. I was never informed of such damage and signed no such thing. I have been meaning to call them and ask if it was damaged or something because I felt so many random rough spots. Good thing I procrastinated because they really would have looked bad if I reached them first.
Well I didn't think it was just a window and sure enough, I get the damage list and it has:
right front door glass broken
right front door dented
right rear door dented
right rear door molding
right qtr panel dented
I'm like no freakin way am I taking $1k for this. I didn't sign up for a bootleg vandalized and repainted car. I'm not so tight with my cash that I would have taken the car at $1k less. This takes the joy out of your fresh new car. So I believe that the car should be bought back and I go into a brand new one, especially for the dishonesty and hassle to me (I moved over 1k miles away). At least they could still have me in a Mitsubishi. But if they are nasty about it I'll loose all respect for Mitsubishi and push to get them to buy it back and I'll go get something else like a WRX or a Z.
What do you guys thing? Any of you ever been decieved or sold a bad car by a dealer? Not that I even want cash but $1k certainly isn't enough. I would have got a $5k discount on the car if I was desperate enough to consider buying a damanged car that you never really know the full truth.
I bought my Evo about 4 months ago as my daily toy between the NSX. I noticed the paint was rough an gritty to my fingers in areas as as I washed it. The surface just felt like it needed a clay bar or something. Finally I get a call from the dealer 4 months later from the sales manager telling that the car was damaged while in the manufactures possession and it had a letter with it that documented the damage which was supposedly a busted window or something small. The buyer was supposed to be shown this list BEFORE buying and would sign acknowlging the damage and get an additional 1K discount. I was never informed of such damage and signed no such thing. I have been meaning to call them and ask if it was damaged or something because I felt so many random rough spots. Good thing I procrastinated because they really would have looked bad if I reached them first.
Well I didn't think it was just a window and sure enough, I get the damage list and it has:
right front door glass broken
right front door dented
right rear door dented
right rear door molding
right qtr panel dented
I'm like no freakin way am I taking $1k for this. I didn't sign up for a bootleg vandalized and repainted car. I'm not so tight with my cash that I would have taken the car at $1k less. This takes the joy out of your fresh new car. So I believe that the car should be bought back and I go into a brand new one, especially for the dishonesty and hassle to me (I moved over 1k miles away). At least they could still have me in a Mitsubishi. But if they are nasty about it I'll loose all respect for Mitsubishi and push to get them to buy it back and I'll go get something else like a WRX or a Z.
What do you guys thing? Any of you ever been decieved or sold a bad car by a dealer? Not that I even want cash but $1k certainly isn't enough. I would have got a $5k discount on the car if I was desperate enough to consider buying a damanged car that you never really know the full truth.
