mitsubishi galant 2001 model....?

[andreyat]

I traded in my honda for a 2001 mitsubishi galant. I dont want this car(found out it wasnt to good) and want my honda back even though i signed the contract that i traded my honda in for this car.
It has been 5 days already.
Is there a law in california that allows you to get your car back?
If not is there anyway I can get my car back?
thanks

 

[mccoyblues]

You can buy it back but the dealer is under no obligation to take the car back and give you your old car.

Whoever told the the Mitsubishi is no good isn't telling you the truth. Enjoy your new car.

 

[sage]

No. There is now "law" that can help you unless you happened to purchase the used car from a dealer that included the right to return the vehicle (for a fee plus restocking charges). If this option was not part of the sales contract, you are not entitled to it.

If you dealt with a reputable dealer, haven't driven the vehicle more than a few miles, and it's in the same condition as when you received it, you may try appealing to the dealers' desire to provide customer service; but even so, they would be going well above and beyond just customer service.

They have no idea of knowing what you may have done to the vehicle. They've also incurred significant time and expense in processing all of the regulatory paperwork a car purchase requires (especially if there's a trade involved), and there may be just as many fees involved if the paperwork has already been filed, as it would effectively be another transaction, not an "undoing".

Any realistic chance you might have is going to have to include allowing the dealer to make a considerable profit. After all, unless they deliberately misled you, they're fully entitled. You might be able to convince the dealer to walk away profiting $500 or so, but you would have to be willing to pay all of the fees involved for BOTH transactions, including any sales tax, yourself. Of course, all of this presumes the dealer hasn't already sold your previous car or brokered it through an auction to another dealer.

Except for the handful of states that accommodate "buyer's remorse" with NEW vehicles (almost always for 2 days or less) or the option to "undo" the transaction is part of the sales contract, unless the dealer has committed some sort of provable fraud or deception, your decision is yours to live with or try to negotiate.