Hi, Guest
10-26-2005, 06:11 AM
So... I still don't have a car. Still looking though!!
I've gone and seen a few cars over the past month or so, some bad, some sold before I even got there. One such car was a 2001 Nissan Sentra SE 2.0L off Finch at some place that doesn't exist because their name on Autotrader (something like Atlantis Auto Group, fitting name) is different from their name on the building (something like dynasty motors). This in itself made me want to go home, but since I had spent 2 hours riding the bus to get there, and had to goto work later, I went in anyway. The car was covered in scratches, as if the previous owner had driven through a forest. The man selling the car said "those can be buffed out" while I agreed that, that particular scratch I was looking at, probably could, the rest of the car, roof, spoiler, I doubted him severely. As they were rather deep and large. There was of course, a few things he was honest about, the slight dent that could not be seen until the car was outside, that could not be buffed out he said. And... wait no he only had one thing he was honest about. Also, the broken ground effects on the front, that would be fixed because he "knew a guy". I took the car out for a drive anyway, it felt like the mounts were gone in the transmission or something, if I accellerated fairly hard, I could feel the transmission move. Oh yeah, and the guy trying to sell the car, I thought he was a customer there. he was dressed really bad, when he said "can I help you?" I was startled because I figured he should be decently dressed. I guess I was wrong.
All in all, a bad experience, though an interesting story to tell at times.
How do I avoid 'dealers' like this? dealers who seem horribly shadey and are selling cars out of a warehouse off finch or steeles (there seem to be a lot of them I've found out).
They may well have decent cars some of them, but i'm becoming weary of visiting places like this. Real Dealers tend not to have the car(s) I'm looking for so I don't get to see them in perhaps, decent condition. And when they DO have the car they're charging twice that of anyone else. (401 dixie Automall).
As for private sales, they're either sold when I call, or sell the car inbetween the time it takes me to get in the car and drive there (lost an excellent looking 2000 Subaru Impreza Outback that way).
Why does buying a used car suck?
... sorry turned into a rant...
I've gone and seen a few cars over the past month or so, some bad, some sold before I even got there. One such car was a 2001 Nissan Sentra SE 2.0L off Finch at some place that doesn't exist because their name on Autotrader (something like Atlantis Auto Group, fitting name) is different from their name on the building (something like dynasty motors). This in itself made me want to go home, but since I had spent 2 hours riding the bus to get there, and had to goto work later, I went in anyway. The car was covered in scratches, as if the previous owner had driven through a forest. The man selling the car said "those can be buffed out" while I agreed that, that particular scratch I was looking at, probably could, the rest of the car, roof, spoiler, I doubted him severely. As they were rather deep and large. There was of course, a few things he was honest about, the slight dent that could not be seen until the car was outside, that could not be buffed out he said. And... wait no he only had one thing he was honest about. Also, the broken ground effects on the front, that would be fixed because he "knew a guy". I took the car out for a drive anyway, it felt like the mounts were gone in the transmission or something, if I accellerated fairly hard, I could feel the transmission move. Oh yeah, and the guy trying to sell the car, I thought he was a customer there. he was dressed really bad, when he said "can I help you?" I was startled because I figured he should be decently dressed. I guess I was wrong.
All in all, a bad experience, though an interesting story to tell at times.
How do I avoid 'dealers' like this? dealers who seem horribly shadey and are selling cars out of a warehouse off finch or steeles (there seem to be a lot of them I've found out).
They may well have decent cars some of them, but i'm becoming weary of visiting places like this. Real Dealers tend not to have the car(s) I'm looking for so I don't get to see them in perhaps, decent condition. And when they DO have the car they're charging twice that of anyone else. (401 dixie Automall).
As for private sales, they're either sold when I call, or sell the car inbetween the time it takes me to get in the car and drive there (lost an excellent looking 2000 Subaru Impreza Outback that way).
Why does buying a used car suck?
... sorry turned into a rant...
Silver '05 Saabaru 9-2X Aero