My car has been in an accident!!, Bought it from toyota and carfaxed Options

[97sccelica]

Well, after having my car for a year, i recently found overwhelming evidence that my car has been in an accident.

here are the signs

driver's side mirror used to be from a purple color celica.
driver's fender has been cheaply repainted
over spray in door jambs
blue ish color showing on bottom of door jamb on the driver's side
left quarter panel window nolding does not match and is not uniform with the roof

among a few other things.

the thing is that before we bought the car, we had the dealer get us a carfax and it was clean, according to carfax. there was, however, a 9 month period where the car was not registered for some reason(i think i know why now)

anyway, as far as i know, dealers are not allowed to sell cars that have had more than $500 in damages. and even then they have to tell you if the car has had any damage.

so tomorrow my dad and i will go to a body shop, get an official report saying it has been in an accident and go show it to the toyota dealer and see what they say(and, we will casually mention that my aunt is a lawyer ).

i was going to install the turbo stuff tomorrow but i have to see how this mess pans out.

[97sccelica]

ok, here is what happened.

i took the car to my cousin at the local jeep dealer and he had the cheif mechanic check it for frame damage.

the frame is completely intact.

i went to the toyota dealer and we talked to them. they said that since there was no frame damage, they would only give me a deal on any car in their lot.(they would value my car at $9k)

so i looked around and found a 2000 celica GTS 6spd. we took the car for a test drive and i must say that i was really impressed. the car did not want to move in first but after that, it flew.

after working out the numbers, it came to $5000 to get the GTS. and we came really close to getting the car until the word insurance came up.

so my dad decided to keep my car, which i am perfectly happy with. i always planned to keep my first car and i did not want to move on to a second car that was again fwd and white.

so i didnt get to install the turbo stuff this past weekend, but i did install my gauges and buy the temporary IC piping i will be using. friday i will install the intercooler and saturday moring the turbo goes on and im off to the exhaust shopfor a custom DP

edit:the dealer said that if my paint gets worse on the fender, they will repaint it for free.

This post has been edited by 97sccelica: Aug 25, 2003 - 11:46 PM