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BloodFetish · 03-05-2013, 02:06 PM

Car in question is a 2009 Mazda 3 hatchback with 37,000km, purchased from an Audi dealer in greater Vancouver.

The car drove fine in our road test, but now just over four weeks later the clutch has worn out on it. One of those weeks we were in Disney World, so really only three weeks driving time.

A Mazda dealer test drove the car, confirmed the problem and gave me a quote for $1500.

I wouldn't claim to be hard on the clutch (our trade-in was pushing 220K on it's original clutch), but I can certainly see the dealers viewpoint - the car has been out of their control for 3+ weeks driven god-knows-how.

My question: should the dealer who sold me the car bear any responsibility seeing as this could be a preexisting condition before the sale? I waiting on their return call, but in the meantime thought I'd ask the CP braintrust.

03-05-2013, 02:06 PM	#1
BloodFetish First Line Centre Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Coquitlam, BC Exp:	Bought a used car >30 days ago, manual clutch already gone Car in question is a 2009 Mazda 3 hatchback with 37,000km, purchased from an Audi dealer in greater Vancouver. The car drove fine in our road test, but now just over four weeks later the clutch has worn out on it. One of those weeks we were in Disney World, so really only three weeks driving time. A Mazda dealer test drove the car, confirmed the problem and gave me a quote for $1500. I wouldn't claim to be hard on the clutch (our trade-in was pushing 220K on it's original clutch), but I can certainly see the dealers viewpoint - the car has been out of their control for 3+ weeks driven god-knows-how. My question: should the dealer who sold me the car bear any responsibility seeing as this could be a preexisting condition before the sale? I waiting on their return call, but in the meantime thought I'd ask the CP braintrust.