Drunkenmunky23

someone brought up the question about how the acura dealership noticed the defect and the ford dealership didnt...well i would assume that since the acura dealership techs see TLs everyday and know them in and out (i hope) they would have an easier time noticing welds on the frame or other visible physical damage.

however it is still the ford dealers fault, and if you do go to court over this make sure you make it a point that god forbid you would have gotten into a crash your safety (and your passengers) would have been at major risk. and dont settle for ford giving you some money back and you keeping the TL, get rid of it! its not safe. you should get all ur money back, and maybe plus some.

good luck with this. this is obviously not a good situation to be in, but from the looks of it, ur not at fault in anyway, especially since it was a dealership. if you bought it private party you may have had a harder case.

Drunkenmunky23

as for the desi convo, i am proud to say that my family has never owned a toyota! (yet.....lol)

but we've had our share of nissans, a couple american cars, an audi, and the TL is our first acura/honda.

georgy_d28

you see at every dealer ship where i live in texas that cars with a "damaged" title that you must report to the owner at time of sale im not sure if its law here though

Phrosttz0

what is desis

rt4563

Have you looked into the CarFax guarantee?

neuronbob gave the best advice on this topic so far, and maybe I missed your response. Does the car have a salvage title? If it really was "totalled" it must have one. If it does have a salvage title, and CarFax did not report it as such, you can file a claim against them, provided you registed the car with them within 90 days of your purchase. You may still have time to register it with them, depending on when you bought the car. (Like many "guarantees" the CarFax program has holes big enough to throw a cat through so it may not end up being useful.)

If that doesn't work I'd go back to the Ford dealer and threaten a huge lawsuit unless they return all of your money.

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wilsel

Carfax will not show anything unless the repairs where paid for by an insurance company. If you wreck your car, then pay out of pocket for repairs at some body shop, they are not going to report it to carfax.

Carfax is not the only way to evaluate a car. There are so many cars out there with clean carfax reports that are far from clean.

Georgiapeach

I second that

Georgiapeach

That's why I didn't buy a use cars, if it's not new then I am not getting it.