wilkes

Sense the OP never told us about the car one can only assume it has more miles on it than Forrest Gumps sneakers.

Used car dealers can and will burn you one. I do not trust any of them but the majority of times they are blamed for purposely cheating someone they really didn't. You can't honestly buy a vehicle that is over four years old and\or has over a hundred thousand miles and expect it to have no issues like a new car. I hear people cuss a dealer over a car and when they tell you what they bought you see it was built when Clinton was in office with nearly two hundred thousand miles on it. People are to lazy to research the vehicle on the web. There are sites like Edmunds that are a wealth of knowledge. That way you know what to check before you buy and what to expect to fail after you buy. If a site says a vehicle has a lot of transmission failures I check what it will cost if I have to replace it then add that to the price. If that is more than I'm willing to invest I keep looking.

I traded in for a used pick up a few years back. Check engine light came on about a month later. Diagnostic said CAT converter. Replaced it at $700 original equipment. Ran fine till I went out of town about a year later. Got hot. Check engine light came on. Showed CAT converter. Decided just to run it, About a year later, it blew coolant everywhere. Lo and behold, blown head gasket. Probably had a blown head gasket all along and just letting enough coolant out the exhaust to thrown the light. Somebody had doped it up early on. Cost me about $1500 for that head gasket. So I have about 3 or 4 thousand in a 1500 dollar truck! Hey..but it runs great!!!!!! Just goes to show that a Toyota with 100,000 miles will quit on you.

Over the years i've always bought vehicles parked in someones yard for sell. I bought a couple lemons, yet most were pretty good cars. Just make sure they're not a dealer with one parked in yard for sale. That's as same as buying off their lot.

Thanks horsecrazy.

Its the one up the rd

Unless the vehicle is a couple of years old with very low miles you have to expect it to have issues. I hear buyers complain and the majority of time they tried to buy a high end vehicle for a base car price. If you pay three or four thousand for a vehicle that sold for over thirty thousand new something is or will be wrong with it. That is why luxury cars like Cadillac Lexus BMW etc. sell cheap. They will dollar you to death.

Post what it is. How many miles and what you paid so we can make a honest judgment about what the dealer done. If it is a high mileage vehicle what do you expect?

HorseCrazy there are two lots near where the bowling alley used to be. Is Friendly the one in the spot where the bowling alley used to be or the one on up the road from that spot?

Stay away from friendly auto on 268 they will **** u too

We all have to do what we have to do with what we have. The dealer most likely repaired what was obviously wrong with the car. The previous owner most likely doped up the leaking head gasket and head with stop leak long enough to trade it in.

If the stop leak sealed it enough to make it through the trade and was not oblivious to the dealer when bought at auction or on trade then it is no fault of his.

The paper in the window you sign acknowledging "AS IS NO WARRANTY" has a list of potential problems with used cars. It is a factual list not made up.

If you paid $1400 cash for the whole car then quarter good news is it is worth several hundred in scrap.

Just a estimate, 90% of used cars with 175-200 thousand miles on them have never had a timing belt/chain or water pump replaced since production.

If you aren't a qualified mechanic, did you take the car to an independent mechanic for a pre purchase inspection? If not, lesson learned.

Dealers buy these cars at wholesale auctions. These cars are typically the ones that the new car dealers take in on trade and consider too sketchy to risk their reputations on. They wholesale them down the food chain. One must assume that ANY used car on an independent lot has hidden issues. Be prepared to spin a wrench and make a trip to Autozone.

A pre purchase inspection should include a compression leak down test which likely would have detected the cracked head/gasket failure.

CAVEAT EMPTOR

I seen one of those car smashers stopped on side of road early in year in front of D&H. They were gone when i came back through. Guess they found out they were in the wrong place,yet they really weren't.

There was a move by drug dealer to start used car lots in order to laundry drug money. These lots were never meant to actually sell cars. I am not say either of these car lots are doing that. Just a bit of information.

Stay away from Friendly Auto sales also..they are crooks and lairs..on 268 above where the bowling alley was

used car buyer stay away from D&H in Ronda, they will rip you a new one, they buy junk doctor it up and sell it, claiming it it to be good, do not believe anything they say..... so wish I had keep on walking, they make you think you are getting a deal, but walk away, no run like ****...... I am out $1400 cracked head blowed head gasket, should have known better..... they were too eager to sell it