My husband and i bought a car in april of this year, its an 05 hyundai tiburon, it had around 43,000 miles. we put 2500 down and financed 17000. So all together we are paying 19500. The car is in excellent condition inside and out. We just found out we are 3 months pregnant and so we started looking into getting a bigger car. We went to a dealership that would buy our car even if we didn%26#039;t buy one from them. they came back and told us our car had been wrecked in may of 06. They said the frame was bent, and a rear panal had been replaced. They also said they would not be able to resell because it was not a safe car, so they would only be able to give us 9500. The dealership we bought it from was a Hyundai dealership, and we new the car was used obviously, but not in a wreck. I am from Colorado, and I wanted to know if the dealership legally has to tell us about a car being in a wreck, especially if they sell it for close to full price , and if there is anything we can do about it now? We do not feel safe in this car anymore. And i also have a 3 year old. Please help
Does the dealer have to tell me if my car was wrecked? If it wasn%26#039;t totalled, I don%26#039;t think they have to tell you anything. And on a car that new, it takes a LOOOT of damage to total it. So you could still have a frightening amount of damage and have it be worthwhile to fix the thing.
You should have run a Carfax check on every single car you looked at. Unless the repairs on your car were poorly done, that%26#039;s probably how the dealership found out about it. You wouldn%26#039;t have gotten into this mess in the first place. If you%26#039;re serious about buying a new car right now, get a 1 month Carfax account. I think you now know what it%26#039;s worth.
And that is: the thousands of dollars you are probably going to lose on this Tiburon if you can%26#039;t find some other sucker to pawn it off on. You%26#039;re probably going to have to sell the car yourself if you want to get a reasonable amount of money out of it.
The car COULD be perfectly safe, but there%26#039;s a CHANCE that it isn%26#039;t. That%26#039;s why cars that have been in serious accidents are worth less that cars that haven%26#039;t and why the difference is so much more pronounced on newer cars like yours.
Honestly, I think the dealer%26#039;s offer isn%26#039;t too bad, if he%26#039;s telling you the truth. Get Carfax and check yourself. If the dealer is lying to you about the damage in order to drive your trade-in price down, tell the scumbag to go masturbate in hell. If he%26#039;s not, consider the offer, but remember you can probably get a couple grand more selling it yourself.
Oh yeah, and remember, while major non-totaling accidents USUALLY show up on Carfax, they don%26#039;t ALWAYS. You might want to have a body shop look at your car as well to confirm the dealer%26#039;s story. There should be SOME evidence of the repair.
As for getting another car to begin with: My parents hauled my brother and I around in a 1979-ish Dodge Colt for 2 or 3 years (and that was replaced with a Monte Carlo, so it was still a coupe). You do not need a larger car. You will not need a larger car until the first kid hits puberty. The Tiburon is a fairly safe car, and this one PROBABLY still is as well. Probably.
Does the dealer have to tell me if my car was wrecked? yes they are suppose to tell you it was a salvage title , meaning it was an accident
Does the dealer have to tell me if my car was wrecked? yes they are suppose to declare wrecks or any other defects that they know about. call them up a find out what they say, if they don%26#039;t give you satisfaction sue them
Does the dealer have to tell me if my car was wrecked? It is likely the dealer had no idea it was wrecked. I post a car fax on every used car that we sell. You can request a car fax from the dealer prior to buying the car. From the car fax you can get information as to rather the car was salvaged (Meaning the damage to the car exceeded the value) or if the title is a clean title. Not every wrecked car is totaled nor is every wrecked car listed as salvaged. I would contact the dealer and find out who did the repair job. I doubt the CarMax gave you accurate information about the car, we wanted to sell our 98 ford Windstar to them. They told us the same thing, I told them flat out that they where lying as we are the original owners of the car and it had never been in any type of accident at all. I have heard stories like this many times from people who go to car max and sell their cars. when they do this it because they have too many of them and don%26#039;t want to buy it, or they are trying to get the car as cheap as possible so they can make larger profits off it. chances are the car is fine and if involved in an accident was repaired perfectly. I would take it to an auto body shop and have it inspected for more information. Personally I think they where feeding you a line.
Does the dealer have to tell me if my car was wrecked? You definitely have disclosure issues with the selling dealership, but to make sure of the legal aspects of it you will need to seek professional counsel... good luck..rake em over the coals....
Does the dealer have to tell me if my car was wrecked? Yes, the dealership has to disclose that it was in a wreck. Go have somebody that works on cars and have the car checked out to see if it was wrecked for sure. Maybe they are saying it was in a wreck, just so they don%26#039;t have to pay a big amount. I don%26#039;t know if anything can be done now. You might call the Better Business Bureau and ask them what you can do, or who you can ask. I had a fully loaded 2005 Hyundai SantaFe, fully loaded. I traded mine in for a new vehicle and only got 13,000 for a trade-in. My car only had 27,000 on it. Hope this helped.
Does the dealer have to tell me if my car was wrecked? if i was you i would try to get them on the lemon claws but you have to do it fast don%26#039;t know the time frame on it try to talk to a lawyer!!!!! good-luck!!!!!
GET a vehicle history report before purchasing a used car!!!!
all you need is the vin. number!!!!
Does the dealer have to tell me if my car was wrecked? BY LAW THEY MUST DISCLOSED THIS INFORMATION TO YOU AS LONG AS THEY KNOW OF IT AND REMEMBER THAT THIS %26quot;AS LONG AS THEY KNOW%26quot;.
MOST OF THE TIME THEY DO KNOW BUT THAT INFO GETS LOST IN THE CRACKS, JUST BE CAREFUL AND ASK THEM TO SUPPLY YOU WITH A COMPLETE REPORT FOR YOU FREE OF CHARGE.
Does the dealer have to tell me if my car was wrecked? I dont know your state laws but I think they have to tell you if the title has been salvaged or rebuilt. Get it inspected by the state to see if they think its not safe.
Does the dealer have to tell me if my car was wrecked? Yes, they should have told you, but you should have asked for a Carfax History Report to insure that it has not had any previous problems. Since it has only been 7 months since you had bought the car, you can go back to them and see what they tell you. To be honest, if you do not have actual evidence saying that he did not tell you that the car has been in a wreck, you do not have much of a chance of winning a court case against them. Also, you really over payed for the car. A car should be losing at least a quarter of its new car value when it has almost 50000 miles on it when you bought it.
Does the dealer have to tell me if my car was wrecked? Ok, here we go... for starters, I understand you wanting a different vehicle based on the fact that a rear seat in a Tiburon sucks when there is a car seat in it.. you have to be quite a contortionist and have major upper body strenght to put a kid in and pull them out of a rear ward facing car seat(if one will even fit in the back seat, otherwise, sounds like you will be having lots of fun getting in and out of the back.
Next, as far as the dealership, they should disclose to you any major damage, as long as it exceeds by a certain percentage the total value of the car. So, for example, if a car is worth 15k, and the benchmark is 50%, they would have to disclose any accident exceeding $7500 in repairs. This is assuming they knew of the accident, which some do, and some dont.
I am guessing that Carmax has pulled a carfax, because they are quoting a specific month and year for the damage, which is how a carfax usually reports. See if you can post on here to see if someone will pull a carfax for you on their account. Some people here have unlimited accounts, and as a nice gesture, in a case like yours will pull it for you.
My advice is to go to some different dealers, and see what kind of deal you can make. Most dealers do not pull a carfax, and unlike them, you are not required to disclose damage you know about to them. It is not the most moral and ethical thing to do, but it is a solution to YOUR problem.
However, you seem to owe an awful lot of money on this tiburon. Did you get any additional items (warranty, credit life, etc? If so, you can cancel for a refund of any unused portions). You might have a situation where you are in a negative equity situation. You will find out soon enough.
Good luck with everything.
