I see on here that more than a few F150s have been bought back by ford because they have problems that can't be fixed. What does Ford do with these trucks??? I am sure they don't destroy them. I bought a 99 Ram that was a Lemon Law by back from Dodge in 2001...it had 13,000 miles on it. they fully disclosed to me that it was a Buy Back and the reason it had been bought back. They garenteed it had been fixed and gave me a 1 year bumper to bumper unlimited milage warrenty on the truck. And before anybody says they would never buy a Buy Back.....I got the truck dirt cheap and as it turned out the truck never gave me any problems at all and I put over 80,000 miles on it. I traded it earlier this year in on a Jeep Wrangler and got $1K less in trade for than I paid for it.

I was just wondering if Ford sells any of there Buy Backs like that??? I certainly wouldn't be afraid of buying another one sometime as long as its priced right.

 

Like other maunfactuers, Ford will ship those trucks to other states to be sold at auction where most will either end up in private sales or even dealers. Now by design they (the final) seller has to disclose it was lemon, however it can be such that some sales are not disclosed at all, especially in case of private to private transaction. And main reason for interstate transfer is to avoid or mininize the very disclosure of that lemon law. I used to work for State Attorney General's Office in the Consumer Protection Division; therefore do have some 2-penny knowledge on it.

 

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They pull the ford badges...put bowties on them and ship them to nearest GM dealer as the "ALL NEW SILVERALDO"

 

Ok I can live with that...seems only fair...

 

And that's why you can never trust a used car salesman...

 

You know I wondered about this. Maybe that is why Ford has the DSB. If they buy back the truck through the DSB must they disclose the fact that it is a Lemon to an unsuspecting customer? Or is the Lemon only disclosed if there was a Lemon Law claimed against that VIN number?

Do other car manufacturers have such a thing as the DSB. My other car manufacturers do not list anything about it in their owners manual.

 

They're tagged as "reacquired vehicles" and sold at the dealer's discretion. Usually, they go to wholesale auctions, although I've seen personally where some will end up on the dealer's used car lot. They must disclose to the potential buyer that the vehicle in question has been lemon lawed though.

 

I had a 2000 Windstar that Ford baught back at thier own discretion ( Now I am sure that the nice long email to the president & CEO helped.) When I droped it off they had papers that had to be filled out by both me and the dealer. These papers stated that they would not resell the vehicle,, blaa blaa blaa. It did sit at the dealer for almost 6 months before it dissapeared. I asked the service mgr about it, who looked it up and as it turned out it was sent to the mechinac training site in Dartmouth NS. Later on that year when I went in to renew the wife's registration for her car I found out that the Van was still registered to me. So I know that in that case they did not resell it.

Ohh And since then, since how I was treated by FORD and not by the dealer I have had 3 other new Fords.

DAve

04 Screw Lariat.

 

They make FORD lemonaid!

 

I just bought a reaquired vehicle from a Ford Dealer. They disclosed that it had been reaquired under a lemon law and showed me what the consumer complaints had been. They also gave me a one year warrantee in addition to the remaining factory warantee.

Great price and milage. Runs great!

02 Scab 4x4 lariat and all the bells.

 

How come they can't or don't fix the "Lemons" for the original owners in the first place? Now they are on sale and they seem to be ok...Hmmmmm don't make sense...

 

I purchased a Mustang that was bought back by Ford. They fully disclosed it to me. The customer kept complaining that the car would shut off when ever it wanted too.

The two dealerships that looked at it couldn't duplicate the problem.

It was a good deal $$$ wise. It had around 3000 miles on it. My wife drove the car till it had 130,000 miles on it. Never shut off and it was probably one of the most trouble free cars we've ever owned.

Sometimes it's just the driver/purchaser with buyers remorse.

 

They often do. It's just that the owners are often times pissed off and fed up with trying to fix something that, regardless of how right it is now, will never be right to them. "I paid <enter dollar amount> for my <enter car or truck model> and I expect it to be right!"

Lots of RAVs are like that. They're fixed up and good to go, it's just that the previous owner didn't want to go through any grief that may or may not be present further on downt he road.

 

Sometimes it is simply that the previous owner has made up the problem to get out of an expensive loan or a vehicle that they really could not afford. California is really experiencing this problem(so I have been told.) This is due to their version of the lemon law. Buying and expensive car and then not making payments and getting it taken back after about three months so that no payments have to be made and there is no credit effect since it was a lemon.