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In Florida the tags always stays with the person, not the car. I recently sold a car privately and got a 21 day paper tag for the car ($5) so the purchaser could drive it home.
Odd, why does your car already have a plate? Shouldn't it come with the temporary paper plate?
The car received license plates while it served as a loaner at the dealership. Since it already had permanent plates, the DMV won't be sending me plates with new numbers on them unless I want to get vanity plates. Here is a quote from the CA DMV website:
"Most vehicles have sequentially issued "standard" license plates that remain with the vehicle when ownership is transferred. If the vehicle has a special interest or personalized license plate, these plates belong to the plate owner, not the vehicle." (https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/de...s/howto/htvr32)
I texted my sales person and I was able to confirm that there is a temporary registration sticker right now on the bottom windshield of the passenger side.
Whelp I went back to the dealership to drop off my car on Tuesday of this week due a damaged rear spoiler and poor installation. The dealer claimed it was a new spoiler, but had a chip in it when I went to pick it up and 2 layers of 3M tape. Went back today to pick up the car and the bodyshop they used ended up curbing the car pretty badly . Such a frustrating experience so far. The dealership is saying that the body shop will repair the damage, but I hate how the car is devaluing before I've even owned it a week. As others have mentioned in this thread, definitely do your due diligence inspecting these CPO cars because a lot of crap passes this "certification" process. They will try to slide as many issues passed you as they can if you don't notice them.
Just wanted to keep you guys updated for those who are interested. I ended up going back the dealership to speak with the general sales manager. The only options for compensation we were provided were to either swap CPO cars or they would give us a deal on a new 2019 vehicle. I tried to see if I could either just get a discount on the price I paid for the damaged car or if I could get a free A/B service since I didn't want to spend more money out of pocket. However, they were super adamant that none of these could be provided and that I would just have to accept the car. I eventually told the sales person that I no longer wanted to deal with this issue anymore and wanted to rollback the car completely and buy a car from another dealership, while also filing a complaint with their parent company. After further negotiations, the sales person was able to move down on the new 2019 car pricing to around 13k under MSRP so I only had to pay the difference of around 6k. I was also able to then get the 4yr PPM for $1760 as stated on the MBUSA website. I was able to get a new 2019 E300 with 10 miles on it for $1000 more than a 2019 CPO E300 with 10k miles in my area. Overall, I'm really happy with the result and relieved it all worked out. Will be heading there this afternoon to pick up the new car.
09-22-2019, 10:32 AM
. Such a frustrating experience so far. The dealership is saying that the body shop will repair the damage, but I hate how the car is devaluing before I've even owned it a week. As others have mentioned in this thread, definitely do your due diligence inspecting these CPO cars because a lot of crap passes this "certification" process. They will try to slide as many issues passed you as they can if you don't notice them.
