Richard Solomon

Well, in my case a "courtesy buyback" car - one that was SO incredibly troublesome that Audi bought it back - shows up in CarFax as a "fleet vehicle": https://www.audiworld.com/forums/sho....php?t=1668453 so I've become completely disbelieving of CarFax's "Lemon Check".

Anytime someone gets a "good deal" on a very recent car I cross my fingers that it's not a situation like my old car. OTOH, it's entirely possible that the poor/lucky guy who got my old car got it after they fixed the final problem... Hey, it could have happened.

Mike_L

Nah, I got a CPO'd 2013 and its been relatively trouble free. It certainly wasn't a good deal. Dealer made $10k off me.

streetspped

I would say I got a fair price but by no means a fair deal. CarFax says it was a personally owned lease before I got it. There are a ton of 2013 CPO'd vehicles with less than 15k on them in my area. Still don't understand why that's a bad thing, but what have you.

Have an appointment at the dealer on Thursday. We'll see what happens.

jdong

I think the concern is that lemon law buyback contractors might be good at making "courtesy buybacks" look like single-lease-owner-low-mileage cars.

Of course, I only say that because I recently DID go through a courtesy buyback, and I sure hope the next owner has better luck with that car than I did. On the bright side though, that has put me in an A6 3.0T Prestige!

Note that I'm sure there exist low-mileage CPO's that are a legitimate good deal. It's just being on the other end makes you feel a bit wary.

streetspped

FYI I brought the car in to the local dealer, they installed a software update, and everything has worked flawlessly since.

jdong

That's fantastic! Congratulations