Well I saw this Eclipse for sale on craigslist and it seemed like a pretty good deal.
I was very interested in it because it had pretty good parts on it, I could use the Auto trans for my '95. I figured I'd put in a manual tranny in this car and have a solid daily driver and I'd be able to sell my other daily driver. I told him that I wanted the car but only had $1,300 cash though and would need to get a small loan. He said don't worry about getting a loan and said I could make payments on it as he has done that before for other cars he has sold.
I thought cool, so we wrote up a small contract and we considered the car sold.
Get the car home and rip into it and found out the thing didn't have dsmlink.
The ecu wasn't bolted down, had 2 out of 4 screws holding on the cover of the ecu, stock chip was in it, and there was no dsmlink cable to be found in the car. Super pissed I called the guy up and he didn't answer.
I then sent him a letter say he can either refund me $563 (cost of DSMLink from MAP with socketing as the socketing jobs looks kind of shotty) or give me my $1,300 back and come get your car.
He calls me today saying that DSMLink was in the car when he sold it but for some reason he is willing to give me $250 back. I then told him that if he wont either take the car back or give me a full refund for a new DSMLink I am going to look into things that I can do to get my money back. He called 10 minutes later saying he talked to his lawyer and that since the contract that we both signed says sold "As Is" that I am screwed and he is really doing me a favor but would now be willing to give me $300 back.
Any advice you guys have would be greatly appreciated!
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