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From: [email protected] (Gerrit Conradie)
Subject: Re: Dealer cheated me with wrong odometer reading. Need help!
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Yong Je Lim) writes:
>Subject: Dealer cheated me with wrong odometer reading. Need help!
>Here is a story. I bought a car about two weeks ago. I finally can
>get hold of the previous owner of the car and got all maintanence
>history of the car. In between '91 and '92, the instrument pannel
>of the car has been replaced and the odometer also has been reset
>to zero. Therefore, the true meter reading is the reading before
>replacement plus current mileage. That shows 35000 mile difference
>comparing to the mileage on the odometer disclosure from. The
>dealer never told me anything about that important story.
>
>I hope that I can return the car with full refund. Do u think this
>is possible? Does anyone have similar experiences? Any comments
>will be appreciated. Thanks.
Something that happened in South AFrica about a year ago: A dealer sold a
Mercedes with an odometer reading of 150K kilometers to a lady. Turned out
that the actual reading should have been 160K. Court case followed because
lady said she wouldn't have bought a car with that much km's. Dealer found
quilty, fined and had to take back the car.
I think you have a case if you can get a sworn statement from the previous
owner. Take the car back to the dealer and threaten him or something.
- gerrit