The Case of The Broken RS 1.0

[JiroZero713]

So Gents I am in a dilema.

I have found out that the Scion Dealership had been lying to be for 2 months about my car.


My car was damaged in transit and they neglected to tell me this and just held unto my car until a replacement RS 1.0 Bumper came in.

What they didn't realize was the back order for those parts already and when it never came they had to eventually tell me of their lie and they offered me 1000 dollars Gas Card and still full price of the Vehicle.



Now initially I thought I was going to accept this but....this means that this policy is in use by this dealership and they have lied to several customers before.


I think I should be getting News Teams involved here now and potentially hire my own lawyer. I shouldn't have to pay full price for a damaged vehicle no matter that they are replacing the parts completely. It's still an insurance claim on a previously New vehicle.



So legal advice here guys...should I pull my money from them and just buy that Limited BRZ?



Or should I just take the 1000 dollar gas card,


Or should I go to News Teams and hire myself a lawyer and potentially sue them. They did lie to me and I even got the pictures from the Manager of the store who said he didn't know about it til a week ago and that his hire-ups were telling him not to tell me.




Thoughts?


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[stevo_12v]

I'd take the car. Not worth the hassle. Prob see if you can bump it up to $1500 gas card though. Or at least a free service interval.

[VakaGT]

scions come with 10 free scion swap days so dont worry about rental. But i would definitely increase that gas card.

[nyfries]

I would demand a new bumper + $500 gift card. Don't take delivery until they have actually replace the bumper. My gf works as sales in a high end dealership and have Ben around the industry and yes all dealership does that. The worst I have heard is a lot boy backing a brand new unsold car into a customer's car that was in for service. The customer was stall, damage was fixed without telling the customer. The new car that was mess up? Fix and sold without the new owner knowing. If it doesn't go through insurance it won't leave record on the car anyways. This is just for fixable damage though, if a lot boy say totalled a car there is no lying about it.

Another reason I don't go to dealership for servicing unless I absolutely have to for warranty purposes.


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[JiroZero713]

The new bumper is going to be installed. The manager is telling the guys to take a good bumper off the automatic they have and will replace mine there.

I would then get a 1000 dollar gift gas card too once it is complete.

Still though....I think I should get a bit more off for my trouble...but I'm wondering what you guys think.

[Koa]

News teams and lawyers are for suckas

take the $$ and run. Bumper isn't a big deal

[boogle]

Originally Posted by Koa

News teams and lawyers are for suckas

take the $$ and run. Bumper isn't a big deal

This, take it and run. These sorts of things happen all the time. My 86 had a scuff on the underside of the front bumper. Dealer replaced the front undertray (also scuffed) and did a repair on the white paint. They offered to respray the entire bumper, but given the difficulty of matching white and the fact it's not exactly visible I thought it was a good compromise. Would have loved $1,000 of free fuel!

I wouldn't worry at all.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Won't that reflect in the carfax report should you want to sell it down the road? If it does, might affect resale value.

[Andrew025]

Originally Posted by Kaotic Lazagna

Won't that reflect in the carfax report should you want to sell it down the road? If it does, might affect resale value.

I highly doubt it will show up.

[sgh]

If it was me I'd be walking away and going to a new dealer. RS 1.0 isn't rare enough yet to be tough to find.

Honesty is worth more to me than a $1,000 gas card. It seems to me that if they would have been able to source a new bumper fast enough they would have never even told you about this. What else are they going to lie to you about down the road?

I had a similar issue with my Mustang GT/CS. There were about 4k KM on the car when I got it and was told it was because the manager had been driving it. It wasn't until I ran a Carfax on it (after buying it) that I found out it had a previous owner listed on it. The dealership then tried to come up with some lame excuse that the person had first only been test driving it for a few weeks and then had decided to buy it but never took delivery of it - trying to worm their way out of selling a used car as new. I was offered gas cards, lifetime free service, loaners, etc., but didn't take them and never returned to that dealership. I strongly considered legal action but decided to just move on and selected another dealership that seemed to have a bit more integrity.

[raven1231]

Not sure you can sue them for lying. Had you already bought the car and found this out after the fact you would definitely have a case.

[Tcoat]

Will not be on any reports as they are swapping the bumper internally. Take the gas card forget the lawyer and enjoy the car.
Have said this before on the other thread, if you settle for anything else at this point you will soon start to despise the car and just find everything wrong with it you can.

[funwheeldrive]

I would walk. Find someone more honest. The gas card is a joke.

[Defuser]

Ask for the TRD wheels...still don't get why they didn't put them on the RS's to begin with.