I didn't see the car that night but the next night when I got home it was sitting in the garage and when I first saw it I said MAN!! that's a nice looking car. As I walked by the light was hitting to top just right and I noticed a bunch of dents all over the top, the hood and the trunk. I counted 30 small dents before I stopped counting and went in and asked my wife what kind of deal did she get on that hail damaged car. She said she didn't buy a hail damaged car then I had to tell her, yes....yes you did. We both were pretty upset about this especially since the dealer made no mention of it during his selling job.
We are in Va and I was looking at consumer protection laws and didn't find much information on what you can do about something like this. There is plenty of information about dealer protection from the car manufacturers but not much about protection of buyers from the dealers. When she contacted them about it they he hawed around and tried to say it happened after she took it home. The only problem with that is we haven't had any storms around here for a couple weeks and all she did was drive it home and park it in the garage. Then they told her to bring it in for them to look at it which she did and they want to fix the damage. I really don't like the idea of having to get a repair like this done on a brand new car. Another thing how many miles are usually on a new car at a dealership? This one had 151 miles on it and that seems like a few too many for a brand new car to have.
Does this sort of thing happen often or is this just our luck? Also what should we do when dealing with a dealer like this with this sort of problem. It's bad enough to take the new car hit as soon as you drive away with it but to take another hit from buying a damaged car to begin with is a little hard to swallow.
Ok, rant over......now putting on my flame retardant suit.
and shortly after that and reviewing the details of the sale they came around. They had 5 cars on the lot that was the same color but every one of them had hail damage also. The only car they had that didn't have damage was a white one but she liked the color she had and turned the white car down. They are supposed to be getting one from one of their sister companies and it's supposed to be here Monday or Tuesday of next week. we'll see how it goes and I'll post back later once I find out more.
But what bothers me is if in fact they did they would have gotten away with it if it had not been for me walking in at just the right time when the light was just right and that one little dent shined like a full moon on a clear night. Then looking closer to find them all over the car.
