I bought a used car?
So I bought a used car from ford, a legit ford company. It was a 2012 Ford Fusion, 5400 miles good condition. Well had it for four months, only go to and from work. Nothing hardcore, well my right control arm is broken had to take it to the shop, my passenger door won't open, and it's random but when I start it sometimes it takes a good minute to crank over. Tonight it acted really weird. I have Bluetooth etc. When it took a minute to turn on my Bluetooth would turn on couldn't do anything for three minutes with the System. Yes it was drivable. I was wondering if I could take it back, get something out of it? Etc or am I just ******
Wow, You should have had none of those problems at that age of the car.
Hi so best let a ford dealer look at it. Usually works out a lot cheaper.
Ok so second hand. It ought at that mileage ( assuming genuine) be trouble free. I'm assuming any warranty sold with car has now ceased?
in first place record all events and pop back to dealer .often reputable dealer will often try and meet a customer halfway on costs or even where easy fix place no charge. If we do not get solutions? We have to consider if we have a car not 'fit for purpose' and as such trading laws come into play. We can mention this to dealer if not helpful. Essentially they may stand ground and say sold with limited warranty now expired. Would be up to a small claims court to then decide if they as 'expert' dealers could have reasonably been aware such faults were likely. This is very much a grey area. We really are appealing to better side of dealer. Some are decent. Others always look at profit line.
do check out same faults in car owners club(s) as often many faults can be solved with a bit of helpful advise. E.g. Piston heads.
" I was wondering if I could take it back, get something out of it?"
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"Well had it for four months"
After four months I would imagine that the return period (which is usually anywhere from 0-3 days), has expired. The control arm thing is weird. There's has to be a reason that it broke. After just 5400 miles. The bluetooth thing might just require a factory reset of Sync, followed by the the latest update.
You could certainly trade it back in but you're going to get less for it than your paid for it. Potentially leaving you upside down, assuming you didn't pay cash for it.
I'm also a bit bewildered about how you seem to be a guy
but you've somehow get a period and may be pregnant
You know what they say about Ford. Fix Or Repair Daily. You should have bought a Toyota.
Unless you have a written warranty, the car was sold "as-is and where-is" The first red light that should have gone off in your head was the fact that you have a car that old with only a little over 5,000 miles on it. My guess is that your car may have been assembled from several wrecked cars and the instrument cluster with the lowest mileage was used. The dealer himself might have no clue about the history of that vehicle. He might have taken it in as a trade or he might have picked it up from a wholesale lot. Some states give you a short period of time to take the vehicle to an independent mechanic for inspection but you have had it long enough that any such period of time is long past.
Sadly, the problems are now all yours.
A ford is a bad
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