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Initial Complaint
08/22/2023
- Complaint Type:
- Product Issues
- Status:
- Answered
Hello, So I’ve bought this vehicle from First Gear Auto Group on 8/8/23 and they had it shipped to Colorado on the 11th. We spent around 41,000$ and change for the car it’s a corvette z06 2007, before purchasing the car I had contacted the dealer asking if there’s anything wrong with the car if it’s in good condition and if it has any problems aswell as if it will pass emissions. They Told me that the car is in prestige condition that it will pass co/az emissions that the engine and the car is perfect, they also didn’t even know what was done to the car except for a cam and heads. Later do we find out we took it to corvette connections on 08/18/23 to see that the car has serious issues such as it has an illegal exhaust system that it doesn’t have cats and that it will not pass emissions in the state of Colorado. They told me it’s been tampered with, aswell do we find out that the engine is on its last leg. Later we confront the dealer asking if we can either get a refund or a full fix and they tell us that they’ll go over the price of the fix and they will see what they can do. We wait for a couple days and they just completely blow us off without an answer. We tried to be as civil as we could with them but it seems they just don’t care. I am 17 my Mom helped me I’ve been looking for my dream car for around a year now and they swore to me all these things about the car and then I find out it needs a 15-20k$ fix aswell as the car costing 41,000$. They told me they will get back to me it has been almost a week now without any response after he told me that he will go over the pricing with the owner about fixing the car. It seems to us that theyre not being compliant about “fixing the car.”Honestly at this point after being used and treated like this I would just rather have my full refund because it is illegal to sell a car without catalytic converters or even tampering with it aswell as lying about it. Not only that we put around 100miles.“It was fine when it left.”Customer response
08/24/2023
The Watchkid <**********************>
Wed, Aug 23, 3:04 PM (1 day ago)
to disputeresolution
Hello,
I’m adding to the complaint about the corvette c6 z06,
Here is the complaint number 20509082. We also have news about them selling a tampered with vehicle that doesn’t have cats which was tampered with and it will not pass emissions. Because of this there is a rule under epa saying that you cannot knowingly sell a car that has been tampered with as seen here,
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Even for vehicles sold as is.
Here are more paperwork and Information. They even avoided to show us the under carriage to see if it has cats or not or if has been tampered with.
Again thank you so much for the help!
**** ******Business response
08/24/2023
We have been in contact with this customer and we are taking care of this issue. Thank you!
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Customer Complaints Summary
1 total complaints in the last 3 years.
0 complaints closed in the last 12 months.