Filed 2 Jun 2023 by William
I bought my car about 7 months ago. Beautiful dream car. Took the day off work to receive it and all. Car was running about 3 hours late but the excitement I had made it not matter at all. When the car arrived I looked it over for about 15 min the truck driver seemed in a rush a bit. But I did verify the few damaged spots that they pointed out in the sale add. 2 Spots up on the front bumper lip. and 1 spot on the front passenger side next to the turn signal. I signed the papers and pulled it in the driveway. Loved it. It was exactly what I thought. Or so I thought. Less then 1 week later I notice the transmission having issues when cruising with a shake. Did some research and found out it is a common issue. After Weeks of fighting with the warranty company I finally took the car to a dealership and had it fixed. took them about 3 days and of course the warranty company wouldn’t cover the entire cost because it was not in network. But every shop in network wouldn’t touch it.
Now lets talk about what car this is. Its a 2016 Camaro 2SS. With less then 35000 miles on it and from what i was shown and told in almost perfect condition. This was supposed to be a collectable car for me. One to take to a car show here and there and other then that it sits in the shop and looks good.
Fast forward 2 months. I had only driven the car about 500 miles and had a car show coming up. Decided to pull it out of the garage and give it a nice wax. While waxing it I noticed that the back of the car from about the doors back seemed to have a bad Orange peel in the paint.( this is what happens when a vehicle has been repainted and not correctly). So I didn’t pay it to much attention i just moved on with the day. The next day I go to the car show and i pull my chair out of the back of it and i notice what appears to be a piece of tape over the Tag light. I pull it off and there it was. Red paint on the tape. Now this ed for me that there had been repainting done. So then i really started to look at the car. And then there it was. IF you look in the right light at the right angle the car had been repaired above the back driver tire and its wavy. That’s why the car had been repainted. That’s why the car had been Buffed to try to hide it. I immediately try to call Carvana and of course no one can help me due to the 7 day wait period being over.
So here is what I am left with.
I have a Collector Car that was damaged and then covered up to make a sale. Now I don’t know for sure if Carvana did this or if the previous owner did but I can tell you this. This company should be doing a lot better inspections on the vehicles as they come in, and if this happened while in their hands and they had it fixed I hope they get caught. SO MUCH FOR THE CLEAN CARFAX THAT CAME WITH IT HUH.
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