What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? AL
bought a car that was not as 'pictured' or agreed upon, but had to get it due to circumstances. Dealership did not 'adjust' the price of the car to equal the amount loss in the bait and switch, said they 'didn't have authority'.
Drove the car for 3 weeks, then had transmission issues. Dealership (that we bought it from) said there was no issue and the noise would 'go away' and adivsed us to drive the car home because it was fixed. 2 weeks later, same issue and the noise came back. they replaced the torque converter and said 'problem is NOW fixed'. Drove the car over 600miles on vacation, and on our way home the transmission gave out. Drove it to a near by dealership and they said water had gotten into the transmission because of a service bulliten issue that was not fixed when we had our car previously into the dealership. Had a rental for 2-3 weeks while getting fixed and in the mean time found out that the car had been 'traded-in' before because of transmission issues and they replaced transmission parts before.
Talked to the dealership and told them that it was an unsafe car to drive, not knowing what would break next since things were being over-looked in previous visits to their mechanic. Dealership told us not to worry that they would "Buy the car back" and we would not have to worry about it any more because this obviously was a car with a bad transmission and build job. We did EVERYTHING the dealership told us to do, and drove the car for 4 months with all of these issues arrising and missing work in the process to tend to the car.
Well here it is 2 months after the car had its last issue, and the car is still sitting in our driveway and the dealership has now said they can buy the car back, but not for the amount we owe. (we have only had the car for 5-6 months). And since our last phone call, they will not return our phone calls to get the information they requested last week to see how much they could afford to buy the car back on.
I feel stuck and I feel used by the dealership. They have not been help at all, and I want to know my legal options. I need help.
bought a car that was not as 'pictured' or agreed upon, but had to get it due to circumstances. Dealership did not 'adjust' the price of the car to equal the amount loss in the bait and switch, said they 'didn't have authority'.
Drove the car for 3 weeks, then had transmission issues. Dealership (that we bought it from) said there was no issue and the noise would 'go away' and adivsed us to drive the car home because it was fixed. 2 weeks later, same issue and the noise came back. they replaced the torque converter and said 'problem is NOW fixed'. Drove the car over 600miles on vacation, and on our way home the transmission gave out. Drove it to a near by dealership and they said water had gotten into the transmission because of a service bulliten issue that was not fixed when we had our car previously into the dealership. Had a rental for 2-3 weeks while getting fixed and in the mean time found out that the car had been 'traded-in' before because of transmission issues and they replaced transmission parts before.
Talked to the dealership and told them that it was an unsafe car to drive, not knowing what would break next since things were being over-looked in previous visits to their mechanic. Dealership told us not to worry that they would "Buy the car back" and we would not have to worry about it any more because this obviously was a car with a bad transmission and build job. We did EVERYTHING the dealership told us to do, and drove the car for 4 months with all of these issues arrising and missing work in the process to tend to the car.
Well here it is 2 months after the car had its last issue, and the car is still sitting in our driveway and the dealership has now said they can buy the car back, but not for the amount we owe. (we have only had the car for 5-6 months). And since our last phone call, they will not return our phone calls to get the information they requested last week to see how much they could afford to buy the car back on.
I feel stuck and I feel used by the dealership. They have not been help at all, and I want to know my legal options. I need help.
