Thought I'd post this story cause I found it interesting. My buddy who works in the same cube as me bought a brand new car back in January (I wont say what kind, but it wasn't a Nissan/Infiniti). He's had several bouts of electrical gremlins with the car. Things like erroneous error messages relating to the ABS and transmission mostly. The car always drove just fine, and the dealer swore they were just glitches with the errors, nothing seriously wrong. My friend would take it in each time, maybe 6-7 times total this year. He was getting tired of making the payments and started feeling tied down to the car, so he talked to a couple people and decided to pursue a lemon-law buy-back. After only a few phone calls, he got a verbal confirmation today that the company is going to buy back his car and reimburse him for every penny he's spent on it, including all payments and finance charges.
I thought it was pretty odd at how easy it was for him to give the car back. The problems weren't that serious, and each time he took it in, he got excellent treatment and a free brand new Caddy rental which he took to Vegas on at least a couple weekends. Apparently the big driver for the buy-back is the fact that the car was in the shop for more than 30 days total. What's ironic is that most of the time the car was in the shop, it was just sitting there because the shop didn't have enough techs on hand to work on it. It once sat for 2 weeks for a 1-day fix, all the while my buddy was tooling around in a brand new Caddy.
Seems all too easy for anyone with buyer's remorse on a brand new car to force a buy-back if they wanted to.
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yeah, I'd so own a car lot, but I'd look like a Miami Vice villain
that was a joke anyway, there are a few straight shooters out there, however, I do remember when I was little and looking at cars with my mom, they tried to take advantage of her and crossed plug wires on her caravan to try to get her to come off the lot with a van, I think it might've actually been a toyota dealer, but it's been too long...
that was a joke anyway, there are a few straight shooters out there, however, I do remember when I was little and looking at cars with my mom, they tried to take advantage of her and crossed plug wires on her caravan to try to get her to come off the lot with a van, I think it might've actually been a toyota dealer, but it's been too long...