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Message: <blockquote data-quote="briarcreekguy" data-source="post: 1962303" data-attributes="member: 16975">I know that it is too late now, but always get ALL the money up front, disclose every problem that you know the vehicle has, and tell the buyer "as is, no warranty". Many years ago, before we were married, my ex had an older Camaro. She wanted to buy a truck. A buyer came along, and in spite of everything I had told her, she sold the car to a lady who was buying it for her son, and got half the payment in cash and half in a check. Before I could get off work that day, they were already calling, that there was a problem with the car. When we went to check it out, the car was knocking badly, it clearly had thrown a rod. Now this car was older, but it was a daily driver. The mom, tried to claim that it had started knocking just a few miles from the house. I think that the 16 year old son, came home from school and either sat in the car revving the engine until it blew or took it out and wound it out to see what it would do and threw the rod. I thought that I was going to have to fight the dad, before it was all over with. We called an attorney friend, who said that on a car that age with that many miles there could be no warranty either expressed or implied. They wanted us to buy a new engine on a car that was sold for a thousand bucks or so. In the end, the fiance had to race to the buyers bank in the morning to cash the check, before they stopped payment on it.</blockquote>

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