- Jurisdiction
- Oklahoma
Hi! I need a little advice and hope someone can help. I purchased a car from an acquaintance around 7/8/2016. I paid 5500 of his 7000 asking price and he agreed to take payments on the remaining 1500. The title has been changed over to me and I began driving it. About a week later it started acting crazy on the highway so I pulled over. I had it taken to a shop. Long story short, a month after it being in the shop I had to drop $4k on an engine rebuild and coolant system parts. According to the shop the head had been poorly welded "very recently" and the coolant system was full of stop leak Which caused many issues and the motor threw a rod. While I realize that typically the right thing to do is to pay this guy til it's all over with I feel like he knew it had these issues going on and that he probably had the work done himself. If I did choose to stop paying, what could he do? I feel on his part the right thing to do would be to leave me alone bc ultimately I'm into this car for almost 10k at this point and I feel he should owe me the difference so he should call it even. And I realize the buyer beware stuff, trust me but with things that internal I had no way of knowing without tearing the motor down to look.