Steve Brandt

Bought a car from these people a year and a half ago. I just went to try to sell it, but now I cannot sell it because it is coming up that the car was in an accident and was considered a total loss by th I just went to try to sell it, but now I cannot sell it because it is coming up that the car was in an accident and was considered a total loss by the insurance company and dragged off to an auction and sold. When I purchased the car I asked them to pull the Carfax, they did, which only shows a "minor accident no airbags deployed". Experian AutoCheck report, GoodCar, as well as a few others, show the vehicle has a total loss record and the insurance company wrote it off as a total loss with "severe structural damage". This was not disclosed to me when I purchased the vehicle. Also, somehow the vehicle has a clean title and not a salvage title. Shame on me for trusting the carfax report and not digging deeper. But I explicitly asked this dealership if there was any damage to the car or accidents other than the minor accident showing on the Carfax, and they told me absolutely not. Again, after doing some extensive research I found everything online. This dealership new 100% about the total loss and the listed severe structural damage. I confirmed this with an employee that no longer works there as well. So buyer beware! Do not rely on just the Carfax. Again, found all this out when I went to sell the vehicle. There is the issue of my insurance company as well, if for some reason I get in an accident, or the car is totaled, the insurance company is only going to give me Fair cash value for the vehicle and if they see that this vehicle has been in an accident and it is listed as severe structural damage, as a total loss, I'm not going to get xxxx for the vehicle. So do your homework if you're buying a vehicle from these people or anybody else for that matter. These are not honest people. Again, I asked them, they knew, and they did not disclose the total loss. Not sure if I have any recourse after owning the car for a year and a half and, I don't know how, but it is still under full factory warranty with Mercedes. But I'm sure if Mercedes finds out this car has been in an accident and listed as a total loss with the insurance company, listing severe structural damage, they will no longer honor the warranty. The car seems 100% fine, I've had no issues, I hardly drive it, and here are the pictures of the vehicles accident that they did not disclose. I found the repair shop that did the work. I believe because Drive a Wreck, I mean Drive a Dream, did not disclose the total loss, that it is fraud. We are contacting a consumer protection attorney, after filing a complaint with Georgia attorney general's consumer protection division. This was/is Gross Misrepresentation. Again, buyer beware, lesson learned. Do your homework on any car you buy from these guys or anybody else. More

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