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Originally Posted by NOHOME
Dont waste time with the dealership. They screwed you as a joke and are living off the profits; it's what they do.
A more satisfying route is small claims court. Does not really matter if you have a case or not. It is cheap, its very educational and can actually be kind of fun if you are of the right mindset.
If you file in small claims, you wont stand to get a huge chunk of money; what you will do is burn the dealerships money and time. They may or may not send a lawyer down to respond. If they do send a lawyer, that is even better because he will burn the dealer way worse than they burned you.
The other thing I learned in small claims is that most try to do a mediation before it goes before the judge. This is fun because the mediator is a bit more common sense based. "Listen, I know you are within the letter of the law but you did deliberately screw this guy over" is the way mediators deal with things. Mediation is NOT binding so if you don't like what the mediator says, then go to the judge. Small claims does NOT award legal fees since it is meant to be a lawyer-less process, so you should not have to fear that. (I speak of Ontario).
Personally, I think you just got a good albeit expensive education in how dishonest ALL car dealers are. These are things they must do to survive. The good news is that you wont be making this mistake again.
If the car is driving OK, I would not worry too much as long as you plan to keep it five years or so. My car took a hit that needed a fender and a door and I could care less since it was repaired nicely and I will drive it for ten years and scrap or give it away to a family member or friend.
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Does filing a nuisance claim (with no real hope of any substantial settlement) against the dealer not perpetuate the issue? The dealer is not likely to learn a lesson and now their margin just got smaller and they have to screw over the next guy to make it up. That is presuming they intentionally misled the guy in the first place.
We have very little to go on from the OP other than the vague description of what the car fax said. It could very well be that the dealer didn't know anymore then what they told the buyer at that time and were not out to screw anybody. All we ever hear is one side of the story on these things and the masses always take the buyer's story as the gospel truth and condemn the dealer with little or no background facts. It is not reasonable to say that every car dealer is crooked. There are certainly more than some other businesses but there are also some very good and honest dealers.