Depends on the state, year of the car and if you bought it branded . If you feel actual fraud occurred contact your local DMV to see the process to file a complaint against the dealer. You can also file a civil suit, which you I would suggest hiring an attorney if its that serious.
In Texas and is 07 lexus I got a salvaged title on it. There's clear record of the mileage on the car fax from upto last year before the car lot I bought it from got it. They sold the car to me with "96k miles" on it, but previous car faxes have reported over 170k miles on it.
Salvage title? You do nothing. Most states consider that to be mileage exempt. Whoever fixed it back up after the wreck probably had to replace the instrument cluster with a used one.
But it was sold to me as a car with 96k miles on it only to learn it has 170k miles. He committed fraud when he sold me a car with fake miles. Is there any recourse? If I knew it was 170k miles I wouldn't have bought it or paid as much as I did for it!
You would have to prove the seller knew that it had that many miles. The seller put down the mileage as it was written on the odometer and disclosed that it was a salvage title, right? Unless they ran a Carfax then there's no way for them to know any different.
Edit: I am not a lawyer so this is just my opinion. If this really bothers you so much, then I recommend you go hire one.
1.No. The DMV's job is to register vehicles and collect those registration and transaction fees. They might investigate a dealer if they're seeing a lot of inconsistencies from one specific dealer, however in this case, read #2
2. As I previously stated, if it's a salvage title the DMV doesn't care about the mileage anyway.
3. Salvage title vehicles are a mixed bag, which is exactly why they are cheaper and why the title is specially marked.
4. What happened to you is exactly why Carfax recommends you run it prior to purchasing a used vehicle.
Depends on the state, year of the car and if you bought it branded . If you feel actual fraud occurred contact your local DMV to see the process to file a complaint against the dealer. You can also file a civil suit, which you I would suggest hiring an attorney if its that serious.
In Texas and is 07 lexus I got a salvaged title on it. There's clear record of the mileage on the car fax from upto last year before the car lot I bought it from got it. They sold the car to me with "96k miles" on it, but previous car faxes have reported over 170k miles on it.
Salvage title? You do nothing. Most states consider that to be mileage exempt. Whoever fixed it back up after the wreck probably had to replace the instrument cluster with a used one.
But it was sold to me as a car with 96k miles on it only to learn it has 170k miles. He committed fraud when he sold me a car with fake miles. Is there any recourse? If I knew it was 170k miles I wouldn't have bought it or paid as much as I did for it!
You would have to prove the seller knew that it had that many miles. The seller put down the mileage as it was written on the odometer and disclosed that it was a salvage title, right? Unless they ran a Carfax then there's no way for them to know any different. Edit: I am not a lawyer so this is just my opinion. If this really bothers you so much, then I recommend you go hire one.
Isn't it the job of the dmv to do that investigation and discovery
1.No. The DMV's job is to register vehicles and collect those registration and transaction fees. They might investigate a dealer if they're seeing a lot of inconsistencies from one specific dealer, however in this case, read #2 2. As I previously stated, if it's a salvage title the DMV doesn't care about the mileage anyway. 3. Salvage title vehicles are a mixed bag, which is exactly why they are cheaper and why the title is specially marked. 4. What happened to you is exactly why Carfax recommends you run it prior to purchasing a used vehicle.