Ok. My fiance bought a used car at a buy here pay here type of place a few years back. After about a year the transmission took a dump. She took it to a couple mechanics to get quotes on fixing it and all were around $2500. She took it to where she purchased it from and they told her they could do it for $1200~ so of course she took it there to get fixed. The car sits there without being fixed for the longest time so she calls alot and gets an answer of "its almost done, just another week" or she would get the run around from the manager who didnt want to talk to her. In this time she met me and we got together blah blah. By this time a YEAR AND A HALF has gone by since she first brought them her car and they keep saying almost done. Finally she calls one day and goes "look we cant fix your car" dont you think they could have figured that out within the first month if so? Anyway so after that my fiance and i went down to their office and fought with them for a little while and finally we made a deal that they would give us our car back in the condition it was brought into the shop. (also to mention they did give her loaner cars to use in the meantime, 6 of them to be exact because they all kept breaking) so in that final deal we handed their car back to them and i drove her home and that had her car delivered on a saturday to our apartment. Wasnt in the shape it was originally but thats expected after sitting outside in the florida sun for a year and a half with no care. so we end up taking it to a mechanic her family knows, he repairs it to working condition (i guess it was fixable) but total for transmission repairs and everything else were around $3000. We paid it thinking it would fix it. Well 2 days later more stuff goes wrong so the mechanic looks at it some more and find more things wrong. but they arent just defaults. First off the place the car was originally at changed our her transmission with the incorrect one so when the new mechanic fixed it he basically had to put a diff housing on the tramission to make the car think the right one was in there. But today another thing was wrong, he went in there and saw they they cut some hoses to bypass one part of the engine area and put a rod in some part of it to make it "work right" Anotherwords they rigged her car with stuff that wasnt originally in it, even though was asked for it in the same condition it was in. And to fix todays problems ts another $500 dollars to fix. We dont have the money to do this, let alone pay that $3000 we just paid. We are going to sue the company she originally took it too BUT we dont have money for an attorney or anything liek that but we also done have thousands of dollars to fork out to repair a car that a dealership majorally rigged and screwed up. I was wondering if when we sue that they could sue for lawyers fees as well. Also is there anyone in my area that could help us? We are in Miami, FL zip code is 33193
Let me know, thank you.
Let me know, thank you.