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  1. J

    Sold a lemon by a dealership

    Thank you for the great reply. Nice and rational.
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    Sold a lemon by a dealership

    A very reputable dealership whose average starting price on their cars is probably R500k. Trying to keep their name/details out of it for now because I am very much in the middle of this and I don’t want to give them any fuel to throw at me. Like I said I will say later on.
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    Sold a lemon by a dealership

    I’m going to re-write my post you replied to here. don’t have oil leak invoice with me, but 12k battery died in between first major and second major repair. I do regard battery and lightbulb as minor fixes but all the minors are adding up. (I did fix these by myself because I didn’t want to...
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    Sold a lemon by a dealership

    The car has been fixed but with a month left on CPA, I’m in a car that I’m waiting to break down. So really isn’t any trust or faith left in it. At the this stage it’s about principle.
  5. J

    Sold a lemon by a dealership

    It’s what I was expecting. But evidently not needed
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    Sold a lemon by a dealership

    I have usually bought the cars from people I at least sort of know. And these people I’ve generally trusted to have looked after the car while they’ve had it. And there’s paperwork! Unfortunately I was headed overseas during April. But lockdown said otherwise. So needed a car but no friends...
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    Sold a lemon by a dealership

    This is the way I do it. Every car I’ve bought has had this sort of paperwork. I’ll sit and go through it, gives you a good impression of the car. Which is why it’s glaringly missing right now. Yip, dealer sat there and said stamps suffice. (5 months later after purchase)
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    China plans rapid expansion of 'weather modification' efforts

    Yeah on different scales for sure. It’s pretty scary all in all
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    China plans rapid expansion of 'weather modification' efforts

    Do you know that SA has been experimenting with geo engineering for quite awhile https://za.boell.org/en/2018/06/05/state-play-geoengineering-south-africa But I think China is on a whole other level
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    Sold a lemon by a dealership

    W When I originally picked the car up. I had a look under the bonnet. It was nice and clean from a power wash. I saw and pointed out oil on one of the pipes. Salesman quickly said it was residue from the wash. My bs meter went off at the time. Get home and I have the biggest leak I’ve ever...
  11. J

    Sold a lemon by a dealership

    Thanks for the advice. Definitely don’t love the car haha
  12. J

    Sold a lemon by a dealership

    No, when compared with same year and model that were for sale at the time, it was actually slightly more (10-15%). I thought it was padded because it would be problem free vehicle which had had a good quality check on it. I am prepared to pay more for quality, which I thought I would get from...
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    Sold a lemon by a dealership

    Thanks. Yip while I do hold the Japanese and Koreans cars in good stead, I’ve previously owned trouble free VW and Audi’s, which I think I’ll go back to now
  14. J

    Sold a lemon by a dealership

    Interested. Does it come in canary yellow? Haha
  15. J

    Sold a lemon by a dealership

    100% agree
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