Thread: Anyone ever have a bad experience selling a car

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Live and learn and we have all had our lessons. Kurt

every car i sell is a bad expierence .. iv`e never made a dime on one . i sold my V8 pinto earlier this year for a thousand bucks and have seen it sold twice more for twice that .. i sold my 69 r code stang in 1976 for 700 bucks after having spent close to a thousand building the motor .. but by the same extreme iv`e never had a bad deal in buying one ..`im a pretty good judge of a good vehicle

This past week my son charlie sold the block and heads off a 71 350 gmc. It was a motor that a friend gave him to take apart to see how things go together. he posted it on craigslist for $50.00. He was trying to make a little christmas money. A guy calls and said that it sounded like a great deal and he would by that afternoon. He shows up and tells charlie that it is close to christmas and would he take $30.00 for it. Charlie said no but he would take $40.00 for it. The guy gave him a dirty look but paid the 40. not a hour later he emails charlie and says that he need the bearing caps and pistons or it is not worth his time to rebuild it. I did not say a word as Charlie has to learn how to do deals especcially with jerks. Charlie went into the garage and got the parts. He emails the guy who comes back the next day to pick them up. The guy then emails charlie again to ask if he had anymore parts. I told charlie to let me answer him. I told him that yes we probably do but it would be $100.00 for the other parts the guy said thanks anyway and we have not heard from him since. The nerve of some people especially adults that see a young person as a push over. Thank goodness that my sons temper is better than mine. I would have let him have it over just offering $30.00.

I'll give family members and relatives advice on a car they are buying or selling, but I won't buy or sell a car if a family member is involved.Now on the other hand if it's a friend I tell them to go to a professional mechanic to check things out because the grief level just gets too high. I learned that lesson the hard way. Good deeds involving cars and friends are the ones that will bite you in the butt the hardest.

I think you should have sold the engine for your son Yardgirl.
HE! HE! We all need to learn new tricks once in a while.
Kurt

Heck, I can't even GIVE one away without stepping in it.

We had a very presentable '86 Astro van that we didn't need after the kids left the nest. Jane and I talked it over and we decided to donate it to a non-profit youth related organization that had a lot to do with our son's becoming a fine man and military officer.

Before I turned it over to the local guy I had a new headliner installed and put in new belts, hoses, and brake pads. I told the doofus rhat the van was in generally good shape but it had a ton of miles on it and he would do well to not stray too far from the Fort Worth/Dallas area, one reason being that it had car tires on it (and not light truck tires) and while they looked good they were old.

He gave me a receipt for it with an acknowledgment that I had donated the vehicle to the organization.

Dang good thing I did.

The first thing he did was stuff it full of kids, hook a trailer on it, and buzz off on a 1300 mile trip. Fortunately they had no problems. A month or so later he called and asked if I could diagnose a problem he was having, "a noise from under there". I later learned that he had loaned the van to another jerk who was moving and needed to haul off some "stuff".

Then the fun started.

I got a notification that "my" van had been impounded in Dallas. Towing fees applied and storage charges were accumulating on a daily basis. The transmission was trashed.

I explained I no longer owned the thing and wasn't responsible. I was told "that wasn't what the records show".

Well, to shorten this long, boring, story a little, that jackass never registered the vehicle so it was still in my name and HE HAD NEVER PUT INSURANCE ON IT.

Thanks to that signed receipt I got out without losing everything We own. Can you imagine what deep ca-ca I'd be in if he had flipped that thing with a load of kids in it? I would have lawyers swarming around my skinny rear end for the rest of my life.

Sorry 'bout being so long winded.


Jim

kinda had a somewhat bad experience. sold my '65 Rambler to a local kid. his father and him were going to 'fix it up'. it needed new trunions to really be safely roadworthy.. I would have put them in and transplanted a 302/AOD into it if I had the time but didn't so I sold it.. dad asks where to get trunions, and I told him where they were available.. couple weeks later he asked how to put them in, which I said they were a basic suspension component and any reputable shop could do them. then he hinted that he wanted me to do them.. didn't hear back for a few months and after that, I find out he wants ME to buy the car back. for 1/2 what I sold it for but.. still I got rid of it for a reason. I didn't have the time ( or then the want/ desire ) to fix it up... then I found out they feild hopped the car on a feild that wasn't theirs.. the car is still in MY name because they never registered it. so if anything happened/happens, it's still MY car legally.. I do have a nice legal signed bill of sale releasing all of my liability but the cops could still come knocking on my door.. there is no way I can transfer ownership on my end and there not going to register it, so they can't even sell it

Originally Posted by Matt167

kinda had a somewhat bad experience. sold my '65 Rambler to a local kid. his father and him were going to 'fix it up'. it needed new trunions to really be safely roadworthy.. I would have put them in and transplanted a 302/AOD into it if I had the time but didn't so I sold it.. dad asks where to get trunions, and I told him where they were available.. couple weeks later he asked how to put them in, which I said they were a basic suspension component and any reputable shop could do them. then he hinted that he wanted me to do them.. didn't hear back for a few months and after that, I find out he wants ME to buy the car back. for 1/2 what I sold it for but.. still I got rid of it for a reason. I didn't have the time ( or then the want/ desire ) to fix it up... then I found out they feild hopped the car on a feild that wasn't theirs.. the car is still in MY name because they never registered it. so if anything happened/happens, it's still MY car legally.. I do have a nice legal signed bill of sale releasing all of my liability but the cops could still come knocking on my door.. there is no way I can transfer ownership on my end and there not going to register it, so they can't even sell it

If you signed the back of the registration of a pre '72 car over to them and have a bill of sale receipt - in NYS, they own it!!! Also, you need this form as well: http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us/forms/dtf802.pdf

Originally Posted by IC2

If you signed the back of the registration of a pre '72 car over to them and have a bill of sale receipt - in NYS, they own it!!! Also, you need this form as well: http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us/forms/dtf802.pdf

I know.. I signed the registration, gave them a filled out and signed DTF-802 but I also went as far as print out 2 bills of sales. listing the make, model, year vin and that it was sold without warranty or liability, signed by me and the buyer.. 1 copy for them, and 1 for me

but as far as NY knows, I still own the car because they never turned the paperwork in, and they can't sell it unless they do turn it in because the registration has been signed over to them.. they had a buyer, but he didn't buy it because the reg wasn't clean. because they havn't put it in their name

For the gang that sold a car and the new owner never registered it... Contact the DMV in your state and see if you can do a FORCE TITLE TRANSFER.
I needed to do that several years ago to a guy that purchased one of my cars. The guy never registered it and then the fun started with Parking Tickets, Drug issues, many more things. I needed to do the force title transfer to get out of everything that the new owner was creating for me.
Jerome