Here's my story and it's my mistake but I want you to know about it because it may save you a few thousand dollars in the long run.
These guys are obviously just dealers and I don't think they really know what's up with their cars that they sell. A quick wipe down after they purchase them from the auction house and they put them up for sale.
I took a liking to a Hyundai Tucson and met up with these guys for a test drive. They gave me plenty of time to test drive the car but the car had this funky jump to it at highway speeds. I went home and thought about it overnight and it was my impatience and tired from looking at more cars that I went back and signed the paperwork for the car. Made the payment and drove it home.
Turns out my inclination about the weird thud kept popping up when I drove the car around. So I took it to a shop to have it looked at. Turns out the transmission was shot and it needed to be completely rebuilt. Part of me doesn't know if it's a bad Hyundai or a bad mechanic or a bad dealer which is the reason I took so long to write this post. But I called up my main transmission shop guy, he flat out refused to touch this Hyundai saying their transmissions are notoriously difficult to work with. Another guy told me to spend as much as the car was worth on a newly certified transmission with full 3 year warranty. I couldn't afford that. The last mechanic I took it to said they could rebuild it. After 3 grand and some change they rebuilt the transmission and within 10 months it skipped all over again. I had the shop rework the transmission while they still had their 1 year warranty period.
Car still drives terrible, once again I write this to share my experience, across the board.
The car was a total disaster, turns out it's also been in an accident and that was repainted to hide it, not the dealership, just previous owner. But the sad thing is this dealer provided the Carfax and no accident was reported. It's just to show you a dealer without any prior knowledge of the car, you must be willing to pay a mechanic to check it out first.
I think the dealer guy was nice, but whether they knew they were selling this lemon or not is only something a higher power would know. As with all car purchases, especially used ones in the state, as soon as I buy it it was sold as-is no warranty. I'm very wary of doing business with this kind of company in the future. Maybe avoid 10 year old Hyundais as well when they're completely out of their 10 year warranty too while you're at it.
I felt it is fair to give them 3 stars, because they did their part as much in showing me their car line up and letting me test drive it and pulling together some paperwork. But I also don't want to give them 5 stars cause I feel like their product isn't reliable. Once again you heard my story and you can decide for yourself. If the troubles are the dealers negligence, previous owner, Hyundai, or just myself for even considering this car after weird feelings from the test drive.
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