Home
Guides Car Buying Guide
Bad Credit Buying
Private Car Sales
Blue Book Guide
Used Car Inspection
Credit & Loans Credit Center
Bad Credit Loans
Good Credit Loans
Auto Loan Refinance
AZ Car Sales Bradley Chevy AZ
Insurance GAP Insurance
Extended Warranty
Tips, Tricks & Reviews Blog
Articles
Car Salesman
CarMax Review
Car Buying Scams
Bad Credit Lenders
Got Questions? Site Map
General Q&A
Auto Loan Help
Subscribe To This Site
XML RSS
Add to Google
Add to My Yahoo!
Add to My MSN
Subscribe with Bloglines

Grrrrrrrr... Drive Timeeee

by Malissa
(Tulsa, Ok)



Visitor Review: Should of know something was fishy from the first time we went in there. Since I'm the only one working, everything had to come off of my credit, I don't have horrible credit but it's not that good either.

At first they told me 1500 is all the down payment I needed and gave me the list of cars to look at. So my husband and I went and looked at the cars.

We found a beautiful 300, test drove and fell in love. But because we didn't want to jump into something real fast, we went home and waited a week to talk about it.

It was still there when we went back(YEA) but when we went in to sign papers all of a sudden the down payment went up 100 bucks. Ok. I asked them why and they said it's because they miss judged on my monthly income.. whatever guess we really wanted the car cause we brushed it off.

So now we've had the car for 2 months and already the transmission is slipping and the ac doesn't work. SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!!! You can't win one for losing one and DT doesn't help the matter. I already can't wait til it's paid off and I never ever have to deal with them again.




Comments for
Grrrrrrrr... Drive Timeeee

Click here to add your own comments

Thanks for sharing!
by: Justin
(Editor in Chief)


Hi Malissa,

Thanks for sharing your story. That's too bad about the down payment issue, but at least they weren't way off...like $1000 or more.

Regarding the transmission slipping and the AC all I can say is that I've been dealing with used cars for quite some time it's very hard to tell if a car is going to have future problems...You can usually only spot a problem if it's an immediate problem when the mechanics are inspecting the car.

DriveTime offers extended warranties, did you purchase one? I think they are still including a free 3 year 36,000 mile warranty with most purchases. I believe it is a PowerTrain plus coverage. This I would think would cover your transmission problem, but I'm not sure they go so far to cover the AC under this plan.

Thanks again for sharing...

Justin

INSPECT CAREFULLY
by: johncox83

I really feel your pain about the transmission and a/c problems. Something to remember about these types of dealers is that their stock is mainly program cars, or ex rentals. These cars may not have many miles on them but they are hard miles. People do very stupid things with rental cars, my mom drives slow and steady in her own cars, but get her in a rental and she's the little old lady from passadena! Drive's em like a bat outta hell. Check out you tube and look at what people do to rental cars. It will make you think twice about buying a used one. I've seen minivan's get hot rodded for god sake. lol

Click here to add your own comments

Join in and write your own page! It's easy to do. How?
Simply click here to return to Drive Time Auto Sales











Car buying tips professor, ©www.insider-car-buying-tips.com

New & Used Car Buying Guide

Bad Credit Car Buying Guide

Credit Tiers & FICO Scores

Good Credit Auto Loans

Bad Credit Auto Loans


Search 400+ Pages!







Get Your Credit Score at CreditReport.com