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My fiance and I purchased a used car less than 2 years ago. We asked for the car fax report and they told us that there was no car fax report and the car was clean. We just took it to a dealership to have it appraised and they pulled an auto check and found that the car had severe frame damage and was purchased at an auction one week prior to us buying it. Are we helpless at this point?

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   There is probably nothing wrong with your car! Frame damage can and probably has been repaired properly. The dealer is just using that as an excuse to give you less money for it on trade. Sell it privately and you will get more for it.

   Comment by Bill — June 12, 2011 @ 2:26 am

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   if you wanted a car fax type report you should have purchased one before buying.

   Comment by whata waste — June 12, 2011 @ 2:26 am

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   Absolutely, 100% NOT fraud.

   You didn’t do your homework.

   That’s your fault, not theirs.

   I love that you asked for a carfax. I guess you watch TV too much, and think that the seller is supposed to provide one for you.

   YOU can get your own carfax. If the seller doesn’t have one, buy your own. It’s not rocket science.

   I’m also laughing at how you were told there was no carfax, so you went ahead and bought it anyway. All cars, past a certain production date, have a carfax. Unless it’s a really old car, it simply isn’t possible for it to NOT have a carfax…hahaha…

   Comment by Vipassana — June 12, 2011 @ 2:26 am

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   The dealer is NOT liable for providing a history report. You should have purchased it yourself. Don’t always believe a history report, they make errors too. Have the vehicle checked out. I have seen 1 report show a salvage title and the the other report show it clean. Get is checked out.

   All a dealer has to disclose is if had a salvage title, flood, police or fire car.

   Comment by $1,539,684,631,121 Clinton Debt — June 12, 2011 @ 2:26 am

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   if its a used car dealer that has a license you may have a shot/in any event you need a lawyer

   Comment by ken k — June 12, 2011 @ 2:26 am

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   And you didn’t take it in for an inspection before you bought it because…? Why did you wait two years to have it inspected. Carfax reports do not disclose all issues with a car. That is why it is smart to have any potential purchase looked at by a competent shop. You are out of luck despite what "ken" thinks.

   Comment by Otto — June 12, 2011 @ 2:26 am

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   nope u bought it

   Comment by Brandon — June 12, 2011 @ 2:26 am

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   You chose not to have the car checked out before buying it. Its 100% on you.

   Unless it was a "previous salvage" car and you were not informed prior to buying it.

   But its rare for any dealer to sell a car like that without clearly disclosing it.

   I bought & sold a few cars that the auction disclosed as "frame damage, core support".

   I disclosed it to the buyer to protect myself. That was probably overkill on my part but I didn’t want to be sued. Even if I would have won.

   Comment by whocares — June 12, 2011 @ 2:26 am

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   You’re helpless and hopeless at this point in time.

   There is nothing wrong about the car being purchased at an auction, because that’s how most dealers come up with their inventory. So quit crying about that.

   Since Carfax gets its info whenever that info is reported to them, that’s not their fault that info may take time to appear…and their fine print washes their hands of that, too. Read it sometime.

   Enjoy your car. It evidently hasn’t bothered you in the time you’ve owned it, so why start feeling bothered now?

   TopScourge will probably be in here to tell you to sue (Was he posting as ‘ken k" this time?), but you have no case. He will also probably give you false hope in saying that "the dealer should known this and that…blahblahfrikketyblah…", but the burden of NOT buying a POS is on YOU, the buyer, in pretty much all 50 states.

   Comment by alfredb1979 — June 12, 2011 @ 2:26 am

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