2000 Chevy Silverado 4×4 – Update And Aggravation
This is a continuance from yesterday’s article about the 2000 Chevy silverado 4×4 we purchased.
As I stated in the article yesterday, since the sellers mechanic wouldn’t answer my calls and never called back, I took the truck to our mechanic at the end of the street from our house.
To quickly recap:
- The sellers mechanic delivered the truck in 4 wheel low and didn’t notice
- I left the location to head home and notice the RPMs revving up
- The transmission was not shifting gears
- The oil pressure light comes on
- I pull over and manage to get it into 4 wheel high (within a minute or so of the of the RPMs revving)
- The truck makes it to my driveway at home but the oil pressure light is still on
- I call the seller immediately (Within 30 to 50 minutes of leaving his location)
- The seller doesn’t want to talk to me and says he’ll have the mechanic call
- The mechanic calls me after about 30 minutes and insists that if I let the truck sit for 3 hours it will run and drive fine again. He claimed the oil sensor was just heated up by the 60 seconds of high RPMs
- 3+ hours later, the situation is the same and not resolved so I call the mechanic back at the number he called me from (No answer)
- I call again (No answer, but leave a message)
- I call the seller this time and he doesn’t want to talk to me. He says he’ll have the mechanic call back asap
- I never get a callback and decide to take the truck to my mechanic the next morning
Ok, that about sums up yesterday. So, this morning I take the truck to my mechanic and he calls me over to listen to the motor. At first I didn’t hear anything, but then I’m 45% legally deaf, which could be why. He asks me to listen closer and more carefully, this time I hear a faint noise when he applies a little gas to the engine. The mechanic states that this could be very bad and continues with his diagnostic.
A few minutes later he comes to me with some of the oil from the engine and points out tiny metal flakes in it. OMG! This is bad! Yep, the mechanic now informs me that the there are either broken pistons or bearings inside the motor and that the entire motor needs to be replaced (A $1,800 to $6,000 job depending on different options). He then advises me to park it or take it back to the seller.
This is where I flip my cookies folks! I call the seller back using some pretty colorful metaphors and the seller agrees to refund my money. I ask when he’ll be in the shop and how late they will be open. He tells me he’ll be there till he closes at 6pm. Bet! I’m on my way!
I have a family friend follow me to the location to return the truck for a full refund. We arrive no longer than 45 minutes from the time I hung up the phone with the seller. When I arrive, the only person there is his secretary and she explains he’s out of the office and has no clue when he’ll be back, so i tell her to call or text him to let him know I’m there.
30 minutes goes by and still no seller. it’s Friday and there’s no way I’m leaving without the refund and having to wait until Monday. I ask the secretary when he said he would be there and she said again, that she doesn’t know, his car just broke down a few miles away and it could be a while. WTF! How convenient is that I said outloud! The secretary ensures me it’s not a hoax and it’s real.
I immediately get on the phone with my wife to give her an update and we start talking privately about what our next options may be if he doesn’t honor his refund agreement. We spoke about a possible civil lawsuit and then jokingly I asked my wife (Privately) how much she thinks it would cost to hire one of those protest groups to stand out front for a while.
Evidently, the secretary was eavesdropping on my private phone conversation with my wife because the next thing I saw out of the corner of my eye was her fingers going a mile a minute texting someone. Literally, within 60 seconds, the sellers comes walking around the corner from the back of the building and through the front door. BAM! WTF!
He explodes with anger walking through the door, going on about me threatening him (Even though I did no such thing. I had a private conversation with my wife and the secretary eavesdropped). I think the seller got a bit loud and ripped the sales paperwork from my hands. He went on about “all sales final”, “Sold As Is”. and that because my cell number shows as unknown on a caller ID that I’m trying to scam him. The nerve of that guy, really? He tries to twist it like that?
I explained that he’s the one that sold me a lemon and this made him even more upset claiming I don’t know what lemon means. I explain it in the simplest of terms accurately and he still claims I’m clueless.
Long story short, he honors his agreement and gives me a full refund. I wish him a wonderful day and leave.
So, now the wife and I are looking for a truck again.
Since 1996, Eric has managed companies with 240+ employees, online communities with over 1 million members, attended numerous industry related events/conventions and has personally worked with start-ups, personalities, small mom and pop businesses, corporations, freelancers, news outlets, and a variety of domain investors one-on-one from all over the world. That equates to a lot of years behind the scenes with his fingers firmly on the pulse of multiple industries.
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