good luck in court, but from my experience in selling cars, only certain states require that you say if the car has a clean title or not. I know in south carolina, if you buy a car and find out later it has a salvage or rebulit title, your shit out of luck.

 

Shit.

 

SO SORRY. but doesnt mean you cant intimidate him and make him think your filing a huge ass lawsuit.

 

Call and tell the bank what happened and see if they will help you out.

 

Everyone should ALWAYS do a Carfax report before purchasing a used car. They DO make mistakes sometimes but they also catch TONS of cars that might get through.

You should run a carfax report so that you have more ammunition. It might show that the person that you bought the car from bought it directly from the salvage place. That would mean fraud.

Good luck!

Mark

 

Keep in mind, CARFAX doesnt always show the cars total history! It will only come up on a carfax IF it was reported in the first place!

 

nothing showed up on carfax on my car, but i know some sort of fender bender happen to it because some of the car has been repainted. carfax helps but doesn't tell the whole story sometimes.

 

Isn't it illegal to not inform the buyer the car has a salvage title?

 

like i said earlier, only in some states. Dont know which states, but I know that it isnt in South carolina

 

Based on this statement alone, you have grounds to take him to court. You'll have to check your local laws, but in Georgia you can sue in small claims court up to $15,000 and you don't need a lawyer. Of course, talk to him first and try to work things out. If he wasn't the origional owner, he may not have known about it, although I seriously doubt it. If he didn't know about it, he still made the statement, so he's still liable. Don't be intimidated by small claims court. It's no big deal. It's really amazing how reasonable people become once you have a trial date. If a trial date isn't enough to get him to do the right thing, then it will come down to credibility.

Hopefully others can learn from your experience. Always put any such statements of condition in a bill of sale. Any person that is telling the truth will have no problem putting it in writing. If you put such a statement on the bill of sale and the seller objects, then that's a big giant red flag.