Ran into a rather frustrating situation today and hoping for some advice. I helped my sis buy a car back in January of 16 so it's been a while back now. Not going to name names just yet but anyways, at the time of purchase it was a 2015 model car (VW Golf SEL) that had about 11k on it. Carfax looked clean but it noted that the drivers side seat was replaced somewhat recently (at the time) which I thought was a bit odd. When I inquired about it, the dealer assured me it was due to something minor, perhaps a defect of some sort and not to worry. I also asked the salesman if he knew why the car was traded in, since it was a fully loaded top level model and seemingly on great shape. He stated that the previous owner just liked it so much, they simply wanted to step up to a GTI, not to worry.
Fast forward to present day, my sis goes to change insurance carriers for her car, at which time they did some kind of history report on the car. They found out that the car was involved in a rather serious accident just a few months before we bought it (detailing things like airbag deployment and injury to the driver) that just for some reason didn't show up on the carfax that the dealership provided to us. Insurance agent even asked if she was sure the car didn't have a rebuilt title and she was shocked it didn't based on whatever was in the report. Not only that, the dealer we bought it from did the work to fix it!! Hearing that, I'm honestly super flipping pissed. They straight lied to us about the history of the car and had we known, I certainly wouldn't have let my sis buy the car. Seeing as it's been such a long time since the purchase, do we have any chance of some sort of recourse? I mean ideally I'd want them to buy it back, seeing as they lied through their teeth and we therefore bought the car under false pretenses. But I don't know how realistic that is. What would you do?
Fast forward to present day, my sis goes to change insurance carriers for her car, at which time they did some kind of history report on the car. They found out that the car was involved in a rather serious accident just a few months before we bought it (detailing things like airbag deployment and injury to the driver) that just for some reason didn't show up on the carfax that the dealership provided to us. Insurance agent even asked if she was sure the car didn't have a rebuilt title and she was shocked it didn't based on whatever was in the report. Not only that, the dealer we bought it from did the work to fix it!! Hearing that, I'm honestly super flipping pissed. They straight lied to us about the history of the car and had we known, I certainly wouldn't have let my sis buy the car. Seeing as it's been such a long time since the purchase, do we have any chance of some sort of recourse? I mean ideally I'd want them to buy it back, seeing as they lied through their teeth and we therefore bought the car under false pretenses. But I don't know how realistic that is. What would you do?
