casey52199
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? NJ but bought vehicle in NY
I just had a question about buying used cars in NY. My husband and I went to Brooklyn to buy a 2005 Nissan Xterra from TNM Auto Group Inc. We went to test drive the vehicle and my husband felt that the clutch was bad and mentioned it to the dealer. The dealer kept insisting that it was fine. We ended up going back to Brooklyn from Princeton to get the vehicle and on the way home it broke down on 287 and we had to call AAA. The dealer wanted us to have it towed to them and leave it on the sidewalk or the corner and put the key in a box. Well, AAA wanted to charge us $86 for tolls for the driver for the drive up and back, we would have had tolls for our us to follow the tow truck, and it was late. We had just given the dealer all the money we had to buy the truck so we didn't have money to pay for tolls. We had AAA tow the vehicle to our mechanic, since he was still there, and let the dealer know this. The dealer called us the next day and told us to take it to his mechanic and he would pay the $900 to fix it. Well even I know that a clutch alone is about $500 since it is a double clutch and then you have labor on top of that. We were charged $3,072 to have it fixed and we asked the dealer to just pay the $900 at least that he offered to pay his mechanic. We didn't ask for the whole thing. Should he pay the $900 or are we just put out and have to forget about it? The vehicle had 103,235 miles when we bought it.
I just had a question about buying used cars in NY. My husband and I went to Brooklyn to buy a 2005 Nissan Xterra from TNM Auto Group Inc. We went to test drive the vehicle and my husband felt that the clutch was bad and mentioned it to the dealer. The dealer kept insisting that it was fine. We ended up going back to Brooklyn from Princeton to get the vehicle and on the way home it broke down on 287 and we had to call AAA. The dealer wanted us to have it towed to them and leave it on the sidewalk or the corner and put the key in a box. Well, AAA wanted to charge us $86 for tolls for the driver for the drive up and back, we would have had tolls for our us to follow the tow truck, and it was late. We had just given the dealer all the money we had to buy the truck so we didn't have money to pay for tolls. We had AAA tow the vehicle to our mechanic, since he was still there, and let the dealer know this. The dealer called us the next day and told us to take it to his mechanic and he would pay the $900 to fix it. Well even I know that a clutch alone is about $500 since it is a double clutch and then you have labor on top of that. We were charged $3,072 to have it fixed and we asked the dealer to just pay the $900 at least that he offered to pay his mechanic. We didn't ask for the whole thing. Should he pay the $900 or are we just put out and have to forget about it? The vehicle had 103,235 miles when we bought it.