Car buying possibly gone wrong?

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Originally Posted by mosesbotbol

My friend who owns a dealership would say to customer looking at car with damage history, "Did you ever break a bone? Are you any less of a person?"

My advice to anyone concerned about accident damage is have the car looked at by a body shop. If the car is pretty new, under warranty or complete service records; it's the body that most of concern. Many mechanics aren't as keen at spotting body work as a body shop is.

You need not run away if there is previous body work, but knowing the honest picture of the car is important before deciding.

I don't disagree, hence my saying I am not against keeping the car. My problem in this whole thing is the fact that this car WAS THE SALESMANS CAR and he KNEW that it had prior damage and repair. Best I can tell they did a great job as I can't tell anything is out of the ordinary. BUT.......... I would have preferred to know this going in so that I could have decided to purchase this car and negotiate a lower price (which is why he lied to me) or look at other cars that haven't been previously wrecked. There is a pretty good chance that we are going to buy another Cruze very soon, and guess where it won't be purchased from?