Woz

I bought a used 8 Back in June of 05. When I bought the car I was informed that the car was bought back by the dealership under Manufacture Buyback becuase of overstatement of hp. That was fine with me, nothing was wrong with the car. (save the missing stud which is a different story alltogether.)

Jump forward a few months. I get my renewal for my Licence on the car in the mail, send it in and get it back last week, they told me that there was something wrong with the title, but went into no specifics. Called up the office and they said that the car was bought back by the dealer under lemon law and that I had to send in a letter stating I knew that. When I heard this I got a carfax run on the car and it says that the car was bought back for repeated repairs. My question is, does the buyback from overstatement of hp constitute as a lemon law and would that show up on the carfax as repeated reapirs?

beachdog

The answer to your question is no.

The only buybacks for horsepower were the early 04's that were built before August of 03. The horsepower was a buy-back issue not a recall.

Woz

Right, I bought my car used and it was one of the first cars off the line (08/29/2003 is the date it had 5 miles on it according to the carfax)

So if Im understanding you correctly that wouldnt be considered under lemon law? because if so I have a serious beef with the dealership that sold me the car.

khtm

Dude I think the dealership fvcked you over.

Go48

Time to consider returning the car and demanding a refund. Better yet, pay an attorney a few bucks to contact the dealer for you. The dealer will jerk you around if you contact them directly. You might consider suing and asking for attorney costs and punitive damages. I would at a minimum have the attorney threaten that.

However, if you want to keep the car, take a chance on a lemon and getting hoodwinked doesn't bother you, forgetaboutit.

zoom44

buybacks were taken back to mazda in california and not sold again thru dealers.

you need to find out what the law is in your state about re-selling lemoned cars and failure to disclose.

check your pms

zoom44

well i was wrong. after doing some digging i found this was a hp buyback. also states and feds dont dont distinguish between reasons for giving the car back to the dealer. if it goes back its considered a lemon.

this car has had all the recalls done and all the servicing done. it should be fine

Woz

Alright, at least I didn't get screwed.

Thanks for the help.

Ike

Well, you kinda got screwed, since at the time it seems you didn't know the buyback meant it was a lemon. If you ever try to sell your car private party of trade it in it's going to pop up on a carfax and will hurt resale greatly, I hope you got a really good deal or intend to keep the car forever.