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Dealer Bait & Switch No Recourse?
Old 11-07-2008, 12:27 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Angry Dealer Bait & Switch No Recourse?

Ok, Up front I am going to tell you guys, no hidden agendas here. This is the actual truth of what has happened to me. I purchased a truck via Internet, dealer in Las Vegas screwed up and didn't have the actual truck we spent 3 days on making the deal. He searched out a truck and found one in California, No problem. The sales person and myself went to California and picked up the truck from the dealer late one night. Las Vegas dealership never gained access to the vehicle. Deal was closed and I drove off a happy camper.

I installed my gooseneck hitch, aux. fuel tank, diamond plate bed and then A few days went by and I had a sleeper installed in Texas. Picked up the truck and started towing my trailer for work.
I noticed a little wet under the tank, but nothing much. I thought it was fuel spill at first. I dryed it off and it eventually came back. Last week I came back from a pickup in southern Cal. Stopped home overnight and two puddles in my driveway in the morning. One from the axle, (bad axle seal) and the other about a qt. of fuel under the tank. I took it straight to the local dealer that I hate to deal with but have no choice. They dropped the tank and found a drill hole on the bottom, BUT NOT THROUGH THE PROTECTIVE PLATE ON THE BOTTOM. I had them order the tank immediatly as it was imperitive I get to Kansas City in a few days. The service manager denied the warrentee saying it was my fault. I called my selling dealer, they have done nothing, called Chrysler Warrantee, they have done nothing, and the repair dealer has done nothing. Everyone is denying the resposibility for this repair and there is no way this happend by me or by any of the work I had done. The drill hole
is on the bottom of the tank,it does not line up with any exterior hole and the tank has never been removed by me or anybody that has done work on my truck since I have owned it.
The only thing I can figure is, My truck say in California for almost a year. Someone screwed up a truck in California and replaced the tank with mine. SO in other words there is a truck running around with a hole drilled in the bottom plate and a good tank and mine with a good plate and a hole in the tank.
The tank cost me $1000 for tank and install. I am thinking as a last resort is to turn it into my homeowners, but DC should be paying for this and I don't see how I can prove it......Thanks for listening to my B..t..ch
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