I have been in the market for a C6 for a while now, and thought I finally found the one. It was a base C6, black, 3LT package with about 20,000 miles on it. I found it out of state and hired "inspect my ride" to send someone out to look at it. That was slated to happen today, Sept 26, but when my inspector arrived he was told the car had some issues (which I was never advised of) and he'd have to come back in a week.

After much digging, I finally had an employee at the dealership tell me what the problem was. He claimed another employee (now terminated according to him), was moving the car I was going to buy to a different part of the lot. In doing so, he "scuffed up the left front wheel so badly that they were ordering a brand new wheel from Chevy. Also, the employee tells me he damaged the A pillar. I asked how he could only damage the A pillar without doing damage at least to the mirror, if not the side of the car.

They say the one week delay is because of them waiting on a wheel. I'm pretty sure they could find a wheel and have it shipped overnight. Hence I am forced to believe there is more damage then they are admitting to. My gut says to pull out of the deal. What do you guys think?

 

Well, if you'd mention where the car is, may be some one from the area could do a visual on it. You could also go to the regional board and ask for someone to go by the dealership and peep out the car for you.

 

It sounds like you aren't being told 100% of the truth in this case.
If the dealership doesn't want to be more informative on the issue look elsewhere. For the amount of money you're getting ready to spend you want to be happy about this purchase with no bad feelings involved.
Best wishes on finding the right car.

 

where is the car located, maybe ask a forum member to check it out and take pictures...
Or maybe this is a sign to keep looking..

 

I'm in Texas, the car is in Arizona. Thanks for all the advice guys. It's not like there aren't a lot of cars out there for the buying...

 

Heh .............. Cars.com Need I say more. Or, Autotrader. Both will let you adjust the search distance. Getting the Zip codes for the major metro TX areas isn't hard. That's how I found my '11 way down in Caldwell, TX

 

Sounds fishy.................

 

What else aren't they saying. Stuff happens and it may all be fine in the end but why mess with it. You said it, there are lots of cars out there. Move on. IMO only of course.

 

Manager calls me back and tells me "to make it right, I'll pay for half the shipping to Texas." Gee, thanks pal. I'm moving on, I'll find one eventually. Thanks guys.

 

contact a few corvette clubs in yor area and see if any members have a car for sale.. thats how I found my 06 and got it for a nice price 24k 44k mile with a warranty still..

 

The place sends me pictures of he car. The right side rear wheel is some ridiculous looking thing. I call them back and ask "if the original wheel was only scratched, and you are getting me a brand new wheel from Chevy, why would you take the old wheel off, slap the custom wheel on, only to have to do it all again when the new wheel arrives?" I proceeded, "you did that because you are not getting me a new wheel-you are sending the damaged one out for a repair."

On top of that, when my inspector was denied access to look at the car, the person at the dealership (regrettably now I'm sure), said "the cars not ready for inspection, it has a wheel problem and something about an arm." Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure they broke a control arm, and that's why it won't be ready for inspection til next week.

The manager of maintenance called me today to implore, once again it was only a wheel that got damaged. I said, that being the case, why was my inspector denied access to the car? One damaged wheel in his report, which was being replaced (as I was lead to believe), should not have prevented him from checking out the rest of the car. That's when I sprung the news on him, one of your minions told the inspector there was a problem with "an arm." I then told him, "listen, I'm sick of the lies. Why don't you TRY to salvage a deal and top lying. You are having the wheel fixed, not replaced, and you are dealing with one or two busted control arms?" He denied all.

Then the owner calls me. I told him flat out, I've been lied to on six separate occasions. When you are ready to tell me exactly what the issues with the car are, we'll speak. This clown himself was the one who said I was getting a new wheel from Chevy.

Probably wont buy from these guys.

 

Oh and the whole "A pillar" being damaged was told to me buy someone else. I doubt that it was. Just told to me by someone that knows nothing about cars.

 

Your 'gut' is right . Sounds very fishy to me, plus being out-of-state, it'd be an automatic pull-out for me. There're so many available; why risk a sour purchase? I'd only buy a used Vette from an original (older) owner, and with zero mechanical modifications, but that's just me. Good luck.

 

Sounds like your gut feeling is telling you to go elsewhere. Go with it.

 

Yup. Thanks for backing up my guts guys. On a side note, none of this will show on the vehicles Carfax, so whoever buys it will be blind. Wish there was something I could do about that.

 

Yea prolly A arm not A pillar

 

Didn't even make to connection. Thanks dude!

 

I, personally, would run. I couldn't buy it and then wonder from now on just exactly what did happen to it. I feel sorry for the next guy that buys it. Jim

 

Run away from this. Too many other deals out there so it's not even remotely worth the risk.

 

I would definitely walk away from that deal.