I recently purchased a 2005 Corvette from the dealership. - rccowart
I recently purchased a 2005 Corvette from the dealership. The car was shipped to my home in North Carolina. The salesman at DeLand assure me the only problem with the car was a torn emergency brake boot cover.
Upon unloading the car the panel displayed that two tire sensors were bad. I drove the car around the block and parked it in the garage it would three days later before I could drive it again.
I drove the car down the road after driving 15 minutes or so at 65miles per hour the car shut off !. Luckily the road was not busy and the road has a shoulder, - when a car cuts off it has no power brakes and power steering - which literally tore my shoulders out because both of them have been replaced.
I limped the car back to my house and started to look at things on the control panel. The battery indicator needle would dip way back with everything on. I thought that was probably the culprit. I called a wrecker and had them tow it to a dealership. There it sat at the dealership to wait it's turn.
I contacted the salesman at Deland and told him the problems I was having with the car and thought it might be something simple but in my opinion there was no way someone would not have not known about the problems inside our circle. I never heard back from the salesman.
I had the car towed the dealer around the corner from us. The, alternator was bad they replaced the alternator. The drivebelt was rotten and replaced, and the two tire sensors. I paid 2,500 for that repair. I drove the car home from the dealership which was right around the corner not far. It would be two days before I could take it out.
I went out to the garage to go for a ride - cranked the car backed out of the garage and it immediately cut off. I contacted the dealership and told of them of the problem. I talked with the a mechanic and he concurred with me - that there is no way these problems were not known by the dealership, the salesman that said he drove it home, or by the prior owner.
The car is due to go back to the shop next week where once again it will wait it's turn.
I told the salesman at the dealership that the reason I was buying the car was because I have to ride in a car that I can stretch my legs strait out in front of me. Also told him, I don't drive a lot because I'm disabled and I wanted the car just to run around town in.
The salesman, I asked him if he would to drive the car home for a couple of nights while we worked through the purchase. He told me the distance he drove it and said he drove it two nights.
I asked the man that worked on the car would the problem showed up then ? The answer was that there was no way it shouldn't have.
Unless by the grace of the devil himself, that in between the ride on the trailer from DeLand Florida to my home in NC - the car must have become under demonic attack - the attack led to the car's alternator, two tire sensors, and the car would not run longer than fifteen minutes - I might also have to call a priest and have him perform a exorcism on the car.
I was up front with them and told them I was a disabled vet - wasn't rich - the dealership will probably side with the devil and say the car was under satanic attack - or the Sold As Is cliche,
I have no recourse in this matter - except to bend over and scream,
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