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It is my understanding that a car which as endured flood damage, may be repaired, and resold in a state that DOES NOT REQUIRE DISCLOSURE of such as it is a used. In these states the title is "laundered" and then resold into another state where a retailer sells them.   I get this information through a retired GM employee whose job it was to purchase used cars at a closed auction acting on behalf of GM's regional office.  Now this doesn't help you if you have already purchased a car, but there are ways to backtrack car titles to the original states and get insurance information on the VIN number to address these pitfalls.  Check with an insurance broker than you trust.   Then if you think you have been deceived,  contact the state attorney generals office.  They have LOTS of new law grads just hungry for these types of cases.  Also if a crime crosses state lines,  I'm not sure but think it becomes a FEDERAL case after that.   Not sure but worth checking into,  especially if a dealer seems to have a number of complaints with a common thread.

Also because of the changes in titles from state to state, it may not be evident to the dealer if the car was a flood vehicle or not.  I do not think they have any responsibility to research the integrity of any but the most recent title.  

After Katrina,  many flood vehicles were being retitled in other states that eventually went through auctions with the dealers only making the briefest of inspections.  Not the dealers fault.

buyer beware !

You pay your money and take your chances.  

thats def tru...we have been screwed a few times and had to return vehicles to auction because of this. I remember a civic we had to arbitrate because of this, clean title, bought clean @ auction, had problems with the electrical system and found out this vehicle was registered in a disaster area @ the time of katrina......but clean title and history


luckly for consumers and us, autocheck now will have notes if a vehicle was registered in an area @ the time of major disaster. A good reason to use autocheck and not carfax, autocheck is far more accurate. I have seen vehicles with clean history on carfax and reported frame damage on carfax

You are right about us not knowing about things like this sometimes. When we buy a vehicle we have to sign forms stating the condition of a vehicle. This is to protect consumers from dealers saying "i didnt know". In these situations, the auction is held liable for not catching problems like this and has to take the vehicle back...then the seller @ auction is held liable. This is why I tell people if they have a problem with us over an issue like this, bring the vehicle back, we dont care. We will refund their money and take the vehicle back to the auction and get our money back....no sweat of our back  

I wonder for how much it is sold.  
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I have to agree with some of the above entries.  I purchased a cute little car for my daughter.  I was told it was a sound vehicle.  He assured me that the brakes had been changed and I even asked that they check the sound in the back tire.  My daugther was so exited that I had purchsed the car for her.  I live in Greensboro so I had a little over an hour drive home.  Before I knew it, my dash lit up like a christmas tree.  Almost every light in the dash was on.  Without an owners manual, I was not sure what the problem was.  I got the vehicle home and too it straight to a mechanic to get it looked at.  3 days later I had a $4,200 bill.  4 of 3 window regulators were broken.  The brakes that I was told were replaced, NOT!!  A guy in the early entires metioned no fluids.  He is exactly right.  My car had no anitfreeze and very little oil.  I am surprised the car did not over heat on my way home.  Also, the floor matts that were in the trunk of the car when we test drove the car were not the same Matts when I got home.  So the car that I thought would be a sound car for my daughter is something I am afraid for her to drive.  I still have another $1,500 - $2,000 worth of repairs. So, a $9,000 car has become a $16,000 car.  Cary Auto Sales says in their earlier statement that they would buy a car back.  That was never told to me and I asked if I had any type of warranty and I was told no.  I should have figured when the guy who put the tag on my car said "good luck" I should have known then that I was in trouble.  I usually am told to enjoy, not good luck.  I will not recommend this company to anyone.  I have many friends in the Cary/Raleigh area and I have told them to tell their friends to stay as far away as possible.  I have also shared with my network of friends in Greensboro to tell anyone they see if they are looking for a DEPENDABLE used vehicle, to STAY AWAY from Cary Auto Sales.  As they say, what you see is not what you always get.  So, Buyer beware!  If you purchase a vehicle from anyone, especially Cary Auto Sales, take it to a dependable mechanic and have the car checked to ensure there is no major problems to the vehicle.  If I had done that, I would have run from Cary Auto Sales as fast as I could and never look back.  I am considering reporting them to the BBB.  

Be sure to check your car thoroughly before you buy.. if possible at least get 3-4 different friends to check..

I bought a used honda from them, they were upfront on carfax but i found so many problems with the car (power windows work intermittently, car stereo backlight spoilt, car windows tinted at a level thats illegal in north carolina, car stereo was not connected to back speakers due to cable wear, brake light switch worked intermittently and failed within 2 weeks) after driving for 3 week and all their cars were sold As-Is. I had to change the timing belt (they couldnt give me a maintenance history) and engine oil as the condition of the oil was quite bad.

So in summary, check, check, check and double check a few more times if you intend to buy from them.  

I am new to this forum, I would like to apologize in advance for any protocols or standards and rules i may not be familiar with I may be breaching here, but here goes nothing...

I am a dealer, but this aside for a moment, I am a business guy, in fact I run four businesses; besides this, at times, I am a customer and at all times I am a person. So this leads me to ask the representative from Cary's; Sir, WHAT IN HELL ARE YOU? Obviously you do not give a whit for your reputation nor that of your profession's. From those poor unfortunates who have wondered into the web of buying a, I dare say "car" from you and their statements and your complete lack of integrity and utter lack of even the the barest grasp of reality (or of the English language) in response, it is painfully apparent you are no business person...
                  let me amend this, you are no one in business, you are also no sort of person unless you really are the rare type who really enjoys being awful; as in an awfully despicable human being. Would you like your wife spoken to and treated like this? Your Mother, how 'bout your Grandmother?

So try this, If you were this person, how would you like to be treated? This is something you should have learned as a child, a very young one! Here is another one, treat your customers with love, they are the reason for your very existence, without them you die!.

How Dare you behave like this? I'd bet you have a very tough difficult harsh trying hateful tiny ugly puny sickly putrid disgusting horid joke of a life, enjoy loser!

I just wonder which will happen first, you killing someone from utter disregard for others or some other killing you for utter disregard, on second thought, one can hope...  

hi i am fairly new to this forum but after a long week of research and hard work i had to share my experience with everyone on here.i have been looking for a used bmw for quite a while,a couple of weeks ago i found it at cary auto sales.i decided to have a look.the service was great no issues but i wanted to make sure i was making the right desicion so the research continued and i found this forum which blew my mind and got me super nervous but i really wanted the car so i made a few calls and talked to a few people then i decided to go to them again but i was ready for anything they were gonna try to pull on me.first of all they had a line of people out there very busy place alot of happy faces i was surprised i still was ready till i realized they do push the customer to do whatever they like they hand u the key and leave u alone no sales pitch wow well i figured it was a trick.to my surprise thats the way they do business do what u like well work with u they said.then when i had a question about the quality of the car they said take the car and get it checked out take ur time,i was not prepared for that i mean u read all this here and u see something else there everyone was taking their cars to get checked they encourage it and push it before the sale to make u happy.but when i seen how busy the place is i realized they do treat the customer great but with hundreds of customers a week u cant please everyone.make a long story short i took my car to bmw dealer had the car 2 hours without supervision had a couple of minor issues cary auto sales gladly took care of and drove the car home.i will gladly recommend them to anyone i know just sounds like alot of angry people here that blame everyone for their mistakes.thanks cary auto sales...