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akatrubbleone
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California.
I had purchased a new van from a well known car dealership here in California. I also purchased the 50,000 mile drivetrain, optional warranty that cost $800 dollars. One year after I had the van, the automatic transmittion quit working. I took the car to the dealerships service center. The service tech. told me that I apparantly drove my van through a flood and that there was water in the transmittion, causing it to fail.
Well, a lot of my friends are mechanics, and they told me it was physically impossible for me to be able to drive my car that deep in water without getting water inside the van and in other areas of the engine.
I told the dealership not to touch my van, and that I was taking it somewhere else for another opinion. (At my own expense.)
AAMCO did the repair. They found no water in the transmittion and what really caused the failure was a factory weld had come "undone". I have this all in writing.
Do I have any recourse against the dealership? I paid out of my pocket 2800 dollars to have the transmittion repaired. If the dealership had not lied, my warranty would have covered it.
Thanks.
I had purchased a new van from a well known car dealership here in California. I also purchased the 50,000 mile drivetrain, optional warranty that cost $800 dollars. One year after I had the van, the automatic transmittion quit working. I took the car to the dealerships service center. The service tech. told me that I apparantly drove my van through a flood and that there was water in the transmittion, causing it to fail.
Well, a lot of my friends are mechanics, and they told me it was physically impossible for me to be able to drive my car that deep in water without getting water inside the van and in other areas of the engine.
I told the dealership not to touch my van, and that I was taking it somewhere else for another opinion. (At my own expense.)
AAMCO did the repair. They found no water in the transmittion and what really caused the failure was a factory weld had come "undone". I have this all in writing.
Do I have any recourse against the dealership? I paid out of my pocket 2800 dollars to have the transmittion repaired. If the dealership had not lied, my warranty would have covered it.
Thanks.