What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Florida
We leased a car from a dealership 10 days ago. We were told when we leased it that the car had undergone an inspection to meet Florida regulations and then they did a further inspection to meet their (the dealerships) standards. We were given a free 30 day 1500 mile warranty on the car for a specialist they use or pay a $200 out of pocket and they cover the rest for a specialist we choose. After 6 days we had to take the car to one they sent us to, because they car was shaking at highway speeds and pulling to the right pretty hard.
We figured it was unaligned or needed to be balanced, no big deal. After the diagnostic was done it turns out the car is pretty messed up to say the least, just so you know my wife and I were driving on the highway with our kids in the car before this point.
Turns out it has 3 bent wheels (how you bend three steel wheels is beyond me) it needs the front end brakes completely replaced, it needs a new front axle, and the door handle on the passenger side was super glued together and ended up snapping off and one of the tires was rotten.
Now they are going to honor the warranty and replace everything that needs it, however in the mean time we don't want to drive the car if we can help it.
Is there anything we can do about our payment as we are not using it because of all the damage it has to it? It seems a bit unfair we should ahve to make a bi weekly payment on a vehicle that can't be driven safely without a fear of a blowout (specialists words) do to tire rot or the fact that is has bad front brakes bent wheels and a dodgy axle?
Oh and under the agreements of the lease we can and are supposed to get a oil change free of charge every 4000 miles with this comes a free one time brake replacement. Would them needing to replace the brakes 10 days after getting the vehicle take away from that or would this be covered by the warranty because they sold it to use with shody brakes?
We leased a car from a dealership 10 days ago. We were told when we leased it that the car had undergone an inspection to meet Florida regulations and then they did a further inspection to meet their (the dealerships) standards. We were given a free 30 day 1500 mile warranty on the car for a specialist they use or pay a $200 out of pocket and they cover the rest for a specialist we choose. After 6 days we had to take the car to one they sent us to, because they car was shaking at highway speeds and pulling to the right pretty hard.
We figured it was unaligned or needed to be balanced, no big deal. After the diagnostic was done it turns out the car is pretty messed up to say the least, just so you know my wife and I were driving on the highway with our kids in the car before this point.
Turns out it has 3 bent wheels (how you bend three steel wheels is beyond me) it needs the front end brakes completely replaced, it needs a new front axle, and the door handle on the passenger side was super glued together and ended up snapping off and one of the tires was rotten.
Now they are going to honor the warranty and replace everything that needs it, however in the mean time we don't want to drive the car if we can help it.
Is there anything we can do about our payment as we are not using it because of all the damage it has to it? It seems a bit unfair we should ahve to make a bi weekly payment on a vehicle that can't be driven safely without a fear of a blowout (specialists words) do to tire rot or the fact that is has bad front brakes bent wheels and a dodgy axle?
Oh and under the agreements of the lease we can and are supposed to get a oil change free of charge every 4000 miles with this comes a free one time brake replacement. Would them needing to replace the brakes 10 days after getting the vehicle take away from that or would this be covered by the warranty because they sold it to use with shody brakes?
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