How many of you have actually been "burned" when buying a car from a dealership or private party?
Share your nightmare story of the time you or a friend got zim zammed!
Or share the time you zim zammed somone else (insert evil laughter here). You sneaky little twat.
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Looking for first car. Im 16 dont know shit about buying/inspecting. Neither does mom. Find '90 somthing celica not too far and within the budget. Advertised as in good condition with new audio. Go to see the car. Its a nice old lady selling it. Shes all smiles. Car looks cool. Paint is fine. Im getting excited. Lets us test drive it. We drive it a few miles down the road and back. Seems good. Paid the lady and took it home. Hell fuckin yes got my first car. Few days later call friends up. Lets go to the mall in my cool celica with pop up lights and nice audio. Halfway to the mall, start hearing a loud noise from the engine bay. Wtf is that? Should prolly turn around and go home. Somthing isnt right. Noise gets louder. Then a BANG! Hear somthing metal tumbling down the road as my car coasts to a stop. Fuck fuck fuck. Call parents, get my ass chewed. But i dindu nuffin! Get back home and theres a fucking puddle of oil where the car was sitting. 3 grand down the drain because a cunty old woman sold us a car with a major oil leak and it shot a rod through engine block.
That was years ago. Still feels bad.
>Proudly announces he is underage
What are you even doing
>10 years ago
>buying first car
>love cars but know nothing about market prices
>pay 4 fucking grand on a VW Golf GTI MK3 which was worth 2k max at this time
>sell it 1 year later for 1.5k
Car was fine besides old tires but I really learned my lesson.
>That was years ago. Still feels bad.
Are you retarded and can't read his post?
Be me
>trade in slushbox econocar for $4k at mom and pop dealership
>even trade for a mustang V6 so I leave with it for nothing out of pocket
Literally every single button in my trade in doesn't work from the AC to the windows and he didn't even test them
>buy first Miata from fat Mexican for $1300
>drives well, low miles, not super pretty
>breddygud.jpg
>agree on the sale, I go to the bank to get cash
>come back, mileage is slightly higher than when I left
>whatever, maybe he took it for one last drive
>driving home
>differential is whining horribly
>it wasn't whining before
>text him about it
>"I'm not a mechanic, I wouldn't know about that"
>mfw
Also found a full hoagie roll behind the seat when I was cleaning it. The bread had been there for at least 6 months judging by condition
>16
>don't really know shit about cars even though I think I do at the time
>want something sporty
>find a 94 v6 autotragic camaro with t-tops in price range
>go look at it, test drive it, drives great with no funny noises
>pay the man and get on interstate to drive it back home
>halfway home on the interstate the engine randomly starts revving higher and we're slowing down
>just lost overdrive
>end up driving all the way back home on the interstate in 3rd gear
>ended up not being too bad of a car
I got to learn how to rebuild my first transmission, and while I was at it, and had a little extra money, I bought a cam for the thing. Had a great sounding "lope-y" idle, but sounded like a broken blender going mach 10 when you pressed the gas. Ended up selling it for 2k (which is what I bought it for). Kinda miss it. It was a dependable turd.
Sounded exactly like this:
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thats a noob move on their behalf.
damn what do you think he did when you noticed the miles went up?
i had a fucking salesman say the same thing when i was justifying my offer and pointing out some issues i found. "oh idk im not a mechanic." its like that teach them that phrase or somthing.