Funny how as-is laws are always met with “you don’t have to buy it” for the suffering customers, but the defense from that auto sales industry is “we have to buy it”. You don’t have to buy that clapped out altima, my friends. If you don’t buy it, you can’t re-sell it. If you do buy it, you still don’t have to sell it…

That’s the correct answer. My initial/current van was a private sale but was coachbuilt when new and unlike the van in this article, properly maintained; if I bought a new vehicle today, I’d go directly to a mobility van builder. The cost is brutal - as with everything medical, it is assumed that insurance will cover…

So this dealer knows he has a piece of crap, where the crappiness has been actively camouflaged, and misleads and lies to them, and family who is clearly in a desperate state, and they are 1000(sic)% at fault? The professional with insider information who chose to lie has zero blame in this?

Eh, perhaps. But, who knows, this person may be insured to the point where that would be a favorable outcome.

Do you think good old Ranko will let you take it off of the lot for a PPI?

As Is sales needs to be banned, at least for commercial dealers. It is one thing for ordinary folks to be selling something as is, we’re not trying to make a profit or run a business, and can’t be expected to be spending time doing in depth inspections, but a dealer who sells every day? They are either selling…

Not that able-bodied people don’t also deserve to not be ripped off, it’s especially scummy to do this to people that need these vehicles.  Worst of the worst.

All “You should have had this independently inspected” aside, a quick look at their Google reviews shows this place isnt a stranger to this crap.

AND this is why I recommend buying a good 90s Honda and as many good replacement engines/trans combos for it you can find cause cars now are all junk and all future cars will continue to be worse each time they "improve" anything

the pop crackle turds are going to get it all banned. S4 and gen 3 series in my area running straight pipes and a rich tune. can hear them forever away and one twat will rev the shit out of 2nd and 3rd gear popping and crackling 

As usual, one asshole ruins it for the rest of us who know how to behave like normal people.

Just so the whole thing is legible, and not reduced to gibberish by Kinja’s inability to handle links properly:

if that shit passes federal noise laws then they can get fucked. if i wanna drive around at redline in 1st gear in a stock unmodified vehicle that was legal for sale in the united states then they can pound sand and petition the federal government to lower allowable noise levels in production vehicles.

There are plenty of ICE cars that are more quiet than the federally-mandated fake sound coming out of my EV. And yet, they still also require it to make an annoying beep when it backs up like a dump truck.

Stock Harley’s are not loud.

From a NY Post article on the same guy:

Dude’s just a car guy. If he wants to drive around in 1st gear all the time, more power to him. I personally wouldn’t, but different strokes for different folks.

Agreed, and truck boys that are just as annoying.

I’d LOVE to see Harley riders start getting fined.  But selective enforcement...

South Park’s F Word episode is still relevant today, nearly 15 years later.