Back in Sept. of 2015 (not long ago) I bought a 2005 Ram 1500 5.7L 4x4 from a fairly large used truck dealership that is in between new car dealerships so I figured they have to be fairly reputable to compete. Anyways my mechanic was doing some 4x4 repairs for me and I had my linkage arm in my glove box. I guess when he went to grab the linkage arm he set the auto report the dealer gave me on my passenger seat. This truck has really been a POS and I've done probably around $2,000 in repairs to it and still more is needed, not including cosmetics. So I was looking at the auto report from the dealer and it was straight clean, and I knew a truck like this couldn't have been completely clean if it had a good bit of damage on the exterior and had all these mechanical problems so i looked at the VIN on the report and it was different than the VIN for MY truck. Do y'all think this is worth getting lawyers involved?

 

Well, the fact that a report was clean just means that nothing was ever reported to insurance. The fact that it's a different VIN number would give pause, though. I'd take it up with the dealer ASAP. Hopefully you have all the repairs logged somewhere and copies of all the receipts.

 

That's going to be an uphill battle. I wonder if the document you found was for a different vehicle. Unless you bought an after-market warranty, you may be SOL. Does the truck VIN match the purchase paperwork?

 

if that was the report in the for sale ad for the truck and the salesman stated that truck was clean and you can find the original ad you might have a case BUT you will need to pay a lawyer upfront for a case like this and to be honest probably more trouble than its worth because the dealer would push the fraud off on his employees..


have you run your actual VIN yet

 

I found the document in my glove compartment and it is the one that the salesman at the dealership handed to me. Just happened to be talking about this situation at work and my manager's husband used to do detail work for the dealership but he quit about 3 mos into the job because he said they were crooks and would buy **** vehicles and "send them off" to get fixed, but it was just being covered up.

 

Yes i did run the actual VIN and a "minor" accident was reported with the vehicle hitting a guard rail and having front and rear damage.

 

Any update on this? Now I'm curious as to how this plays out. Best of luck.