Hey guys, wanted to introduce Veronica and myself. It turns out she has some dirty secrets I didn't know about I picked her up Friday, its my first time financing a car. She is a 2004 MCS with 54k. I checked the carfax and it was clean, that on top of the excitement of finally getting a loan to go through I hurried up and bought her. Kinda bums me out knowing she has went under the knife before. Looks like it was the rear 1/4. Try and be positive and don't bum me out please

11k, traded my pos Jetta and walked away with a 9k loan.

 

How do you know it has been hit?

 

More pics

 

You can see the panel glued in the door frame to cover the seam. You can also see a tab they were suppose to cut off behind the rear window. What scares me is that they weren't intelligent enough to cut that tab off, or report it to car FAX

 

If you paid for the CarFax report, you may want to look into their buy back since it was a clean report. Read the fine print in your contract; take the car back................. or get $ back from the dealership !

 

Not sure how all that stuff works. I would think you would be hard pressed to prove the dealer knew. Not sure how carfax works. I remember they offer some assurance. But if it wasn't reported by the owner who had the work done not sure you have a claim. I thought that all body damage repairs was reported somewhere. Assuming legit repair.

Anyway sorry about the prior damage. I hope everything works out.

 

http://www.carfax.com/manifest/bbg/r...cfx?source=CFX

 

I'm not sure what to do. The car has had 6k put on it a year since it was new, original owner, no timing noise, no bad PS noise, supercharger sounds harmonic. These cars can be such a gamble I'm not sure if I should take some bad I know about vs another gamble.....

Advice?

 

Welcome!

 

First ticket bump, 79 in a 65

 

That's about how fast I got my first one.

 

Napoleon II had been in an accident that was not on the Carfax but was spotted by the independent inspection I ordered through Carfax (I bought it sight unseen from an auto dealer through Autotrader).

The work looks pretty good, plus you're inside of it enjoying how it drives. I wouldn't worry too much about it. I show mine in shows, am a local club member and answer with "don't know" when some smarmy person asks about the accident (apparently trained types can see something about the paint on my car that says re-spray).

Battle scars, I say, wear them proudly!

Val

 

Sometimes the law slows down our fun by putting a number on it. Happy Motoring!!

 

Thank you for the productive advice