Used AS-IS Truck, Lemon Law/Fraud Case Help

FOR SALE ... Clean rust free California.. 379.. fresh overhaul ..( Code for O/H in a paint can ) must see.......then I bet the stock number is usually a name in reference to the color of the POS truck ..like Purple passion or Red Riding Hood..
I bet that truck sparkled like a diamond in a goat's butt.. when the OP saw it the 1st time
Thats how they operate

 

What’s done is done. Sounds like you have no idea what you bought. Oil leaks are funny. One small leak can cover everything. A/C problems, Clutch problems, transmission, whatever. It’s yours now. To think your going to buy a 22 yr old Truck without problems isn’t realistic. Doesn’t matter now. Just have to fix it. Get used to fixing things. Nature of the beast. Hopefully it’s a nice Truck, that’s worth spending money on. It’s not uncommon for a freshly overhauled engine to push oil from the rings into the turbo, even out the stacks. Sometimes a bad gasket installation, especially a valve cover can leak like crazy. You’ll need to figure out what needs attention. Easy to get Buyers remorse, once Reality sets in. Might not be as bad as it seems. Problems with any used vehicle should be expected. You buy someone else’s problems.

 

Absolutely disagree, many are too emotional about what the truck is, look at the guys who want large cars and see how many are willing to buy just plain junk and defend their decisions when they bring up issues here.

These are seasoned drivers and don’t listen what some of us do with each used truck purchase so we don’t lose money.

 

I'll be the 1st 1 here to raise my hand and plead guilty to your factual statement... But my defense to my guilty plea is I favor 1 certain brand and model .. but if I go to look a truck and I know that its gonna be hard to pick holes in it .. I always take somebody with me to keep me grounded and not making a huge mistake...
As a matter of fact I find my in that situation right now on a truck .. but I'am taking my GF with me .. she has put countless hrs in the shop with me she knows what is a POS and isn't

 

An oil leak doesn't mean anything. The only way to know what you have is put it under a load. A truck may run great bobtail , put it under a load and it runs hot.

 

Maybe you should think about driving a 1999 truck in and out of California it could get more expensive.
Cut your losses and get it checked out and fixed at home. Every day your not working is costing more than you’ll ever get out of the dealer.
Best case is ask for your money back and walk away, they can only say no.

 

The only way the OP can "possibly" get a refund is to file a civil suit against the dealer and the shop that did the rebuild. Odds of winning are probably 50/50 and it will take at least a year. Lemon laws in CA are for new passenger vehicles and have nothing to do with used vehicles, commercial or passenger. I'm in the middle of a lemon law suit against Ford for a new car purchased last year and I'm more than a year in with no resolution yet. My car had a new engine installed at 4,000 miles, and now the transmission is failing. The car only has 8.000 miles on it now.

In the meantime the OP is out the money for the truck and probably won't be an O/O anytime soon because of poor decision making. Buying a used commercial vehicle without doing your own do diligence is just nuts.