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A woman went viral on TikTok after revealing how she learned the hard way that she\u2019d been scammed when buying a $56,000 luxury car.<\/p>\n
User @greenhillsathome, who lives in Tennessee, said she purchased what she thought was her \u201cdream car\u201d in 2023. While she didn\u2019t share the make and model, she described it as a \u201cluxury vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said she was willing to pay top dollar\u2014until she went to trade it in two years later and was shocked to discover the car had been in a major wreck before she bought it. The crash was so severe, she said, that the airbags had deployed. Worse still, she claimed this information was never disclosed to her and that, had she known, she would have bought a different car entirely.<\/p>\n
She noted that in Tennessee, it\u2019s illegal to withhold the fact that a car has been in a major wreck. She questioned how she should handle the situation\u2014though by press time, it appeared she had resolved it. Still, she warned viewers to be wary of shady car dealerships and not to trust services like CarFax, which provides vehicle history reports, unquestioningly. She claimed both can mislead customers.<\/p>\n
As of this writing, her initial video had garnered more than 20,600 views.<\/p>\n
@greenhillsathome said she bought her \u201cluxury vehicle\u201d in January 2023 with just 17,000 miles on it. She said the dealership assured her it had never been in an accident.<\/p>\n
A few years later, ready to upgrade, she took the car to another dealership, only to be told it would offer $24,000 instead of the $33,000 she expected because the vehicle had been in a serious wreck.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe go to trade in said car and they come back and tell me, \u2018Oh, we\u2019re sorry,\u2019\u201d she recalled. Stunned, she initially denied it, but the dealership showed records of an accident in March 2022\u2014months before she purchased it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were not told,\u201d she said. \u201cWe were not given the CarFax.\u201d<\/p>\n
Calling the omission \u201cdeceitful and illegal,\u201d she considered confronting the original dealership. She floated two options: Demand that it repurchase the car for the $56,000 she paid plus refunds for her extended warranties, or pay her the $8,000 difference between the car\u2019s value if it had a clean history and what she was offered.<\/p>\n
She noted that if she litigated, \u201cIf the dealership is found guilty, they would have to pay us triple the damages plus attorney\u2019s fees.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
@greenhillsathome\u2019s story drew plenty of advice from commenters.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is why you always get the Carfax,\u201d one wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can check Carfax yourself,\u201d added another. \u201cWhy didn\u2019t you check before purchasing?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCarfax is step one in buying a car,\u201d a third echoed.<\/p>\n
At first, @greenhillsathome thought the dealership might help resolve the issue. But she said when she visited on Monday, the general manager brushed her off.<\/p>\n
Hoping to get answers elsewhere, she went straight to CarFax, asking if it could confirm when the accident records were pulled\u2014on the day she bought the car in January 2023, or when it was traded in the previous June. She said CarFax refused to provide that information, and in a second video<\/a>, accused the company of being \u201cslimy.\u201d<\/p>\n She remembered seeing a clean CarFax at the time of purchase and accused the dealership, CarFax, or both, of lying.<\/p>\n Ultimately, she decided the car felt \u201ctainted\u201d and traded it in for another vehicle. Her family is happy with the replacement, and she\u2019s ready to move on, though she called it \u201ca hard lesson learned\u201d as someone without much experience buying used cars.<\/p>\n In many states<\/a>, yes\u2014especially if the damage is severe enough to affect a car\u2019s value or drivability. Dealers can face legal trouble for hiding known issues, typically under auto fraud or deceptive trade laws. But the legal requirements vary by state.<\/p>\n Most disclosure laws focus on specific aspects (e.g., airbag deployment) that could impact a car\u2019s performance or resale value. Generally, dealers must reveal this information before selling a car so buyers know what they\u2019re signing up for. But private sellers are not always subject<\/a> to the same laws.<\/p>\n In Tennessee, specifically, according to state law<\/a>, if a car has a rebuilt, salvage title, or a salvage history, the dealer must provide a written disclosure before completing the sale; buyers must even sign to acknowledge it.\u00a0<\/p>\n However, if an accident doesn\u2019t result in a branded title or salvage designation, Tennessee law doesn\u2019t explicitly require disclosure of that damage. In practice, that means a dealer might legally withhold crash history unless it triggered a title change.<\/p>\n Still, that doesn\u2019t mean nondisclosure is defensible. Under Tennessee\u2019s consumer protection laws, deliberately hiding significant accident damage\u2014especially if the buyer asks or could reasonably expect to receive the information\u2014can constitute a deceptive trade practice. And if the dealership or seller misrepresents accident history or provides falsified documents, the affected customer may have<\/a> substantial legal grounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n Motor1<\/em> has reached out to @greenhillsathome via a direct message on TikTok.<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A woman went viral on TikTok after revealing how she learned the hard way that she\u2019d been scammed ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5482,"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5479\/revisions\/5482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bruntonwolf.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Is it Illegal Not to Disclose When a Car Has Been in an Accident?\u00a0<\/h2>\n
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