[s-cars] Ever heard of this?

[Vincent Fregeac]

Hi Dave,

In Canada, if you buy a car with a safety issue, the seller is
responsible of any consequences of the safety issue except if he can
prove he had no way to be aware of this issue. As the seller is a dealer
and, moreover, have made maintenance on the cause of this issue, I don't
see how he can say he have no responsibility. You should check if this
is true also in US before you claim anything to your insurance. Still in
Canada, in case the seller is responsible, he have to refund the
original selling price plus taxes plus any expense you made on the car,
either maintenance or mods, except for regular maintenance like oil
change.

YMMV in US but it's worth to check.



Vincent.
'96 S6 bought from a dealer for this reason but still in one piece... or
almost.
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[mailto:s-car-list-admin at audifans.com] De la part de David Glasser
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Objet : [s-cars] Ever heard of this?

Listers,

Last Friday I'm driving to a job at about 4:30pm on the Henry Hudson
Pkwy in
NYC.  Stop and go traffic.  I'm moving about 25 mph in the right lane
when a
van cuts into my lane from the center lane (which was stopped at the
time).
I hit my brakes to slow down (no danger, plenty of time to stop) when I
hear
a clank and my car suddenly lurches uncontrollably to the left, scraping
the
right front of a blue escort along my two drivers side doors and then
hitting the right front quarter panel of a limo in the left lane with my
drivers side front quarter panel and scraping along the limo's
passernger
side doors.  Noboby hurt, thank god.  Turns out the passenger side lower
control arm snapped causing the car to lurch to the left.  I've owned
the
car two months (just received the title in the mail today).  The lower
control arms were supposedly replaced by the dealer I purchased it from.

End result is the car is a total loss.  I don't know yet what the
insurance
co. will give me for it.  I have nowhere to keep the car to part it out
or I
would.

Anyone ever heard of such a mechanical failure on these cars?  Kind of
scary.  Thank god I wasn't driving 70mph with my pregnant wife or
newborn
son (12 days) in the car.  I'm fighting hard to feel good enough to
purchase
another Audi.  Just though I'd share.  Any BTDT's or advice most
welcome.

Dave Glasser
95 Black S6
www.daveglasser.com
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