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Yawmom
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What is the name of your state? Michigan
My husband had bought a car for my son, $700. He had test drove it down the dirt road where the mechanic lived--the mechanic was selling for someone else. Based on questioning the mechanic telling us it was in good shape, my husband wrote a check for it. He also signed a paper stating he is buying "as is", again based on the mechanics word.
He then drove it home - 10 miles away, then decided to drive to my fathers aprox 75 miles away. He didn't even make it 1/2 way up there and he had to stop to put transmission fluid in, and again on the way home. He had tried calling the seller several times, who wouldn't answer or return the phone calls.
He returned the car and we put a stop payment on the check.
This happened in Oct 03. In Four months later in Feb we had gotten a letter from a lawyer stating we had to contact him, we contacted an attorney instead. He told us that it would cost the guy more to sue us than what the car was worth. He read the letter and more or less said not to worry about it unless we got court papers--we just did last night.
My son is a witness, he was there when the mechanic said the car was in good shape. The transmisson is bad, and we backed out.
Come to find out the attorney, the mechanic and the seller are all buddies.
We've never been in any legal disputes before, this man is trying to rip us off for something he knew was bad.
Any advice on what to do? I'm worried sick. It doens't sound like much but that is 1/2 of what my husband makes in a month!
My husband had bought a car for my son, $700. He had test drove it down the dirt road where the mechanic lived--the mechanic was selling for someone else. Based on questioning the mechanic telling us it was in good shape, my husband wrote a check for it. He also signed a paper stating he is buying "as is", again based on the mechanics word.
He then drove it home - 10 miles away, then decided to drive to my fathers aprox 75 miles away. He didn't even make it 1/2 way up there and he had to stop to put transmission fluid in, and again on the way home. He had tried calling the seller several times, who wouldn't answer or return the phone calls.
He returned the car and we put a stop payment on the check.
This happened in Oct 03. In Four months later in Feb we had gotten a letter from a lawyer stating we had to contact him, we contacted an attorney instead. He told us that it would cost the guy more to sue us than what the car was worth. He read the letter and more or less said not to worry about it unless we got court papers--we just did last night.
My son is a witness, he was there when the mechanic said the car was in good shape. The transmisson is bad, and we backed out.
Come to find out the attorney, the mechanic and the seller are all buddies.
We've never been in any legal disputes before, this man is trying to rip us off for something he knew was bad.
Any advice on what to do? I'm worried sick. It doens't sound like much but that is 1/2 of what my husband makes in a month!