Complaint Review: DRIVETIME (DRIVE TIME) LAKELAND - LAKELAND FL

The car almost certainly had oil in it when it was at the dealer.  You drove it for weeks without checking the oil.  Your car had a blown engine.  Cars with blown engines burn oil.   Do you start to get the picture, or are you having trouble visualizing this complex sequence of events?  I know, it's probably very hard for someone like you.

And I rate your vehicle 150 out of 100.  So what?  You need to have an INDEPENDENT MECHANIC check the vehicle BEFORE you plonk down thousands of dollars.  You do realize that a used car dealership cares about only one thing -- getting your cash?

 Now Billy Boy is without a car. Billy Boy doesn't have the brains to check the oil on a car he doesn't know. Because of Billy Boy's lack of common sense, he causes a breakdown. Now in very predictable fashion, Billy Boy STILL hasn't learned one damned thing from all of this and blames the dealer when Billy Boy himself, if he had the brains/IQ, could have prevented this. Now class...stand by for more hilarious statements from Billy Boy. Thanks for the laughs, kid!

 How did the vehicle perform during the prepurchase test drive?

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They rate the cars AFTER THEIR INSPECTION. Mine was rated 98 out of 100. THEY TELL YOU HOW THEY INSPECT THE MOTOR AND ALL THE FLUIDS WHILE BEING SOLD THE VEHICLE s**t for brains. They give you a WARRANTY to back up their inspection. So yeah why tf would I think I need to check the oil. GET A LIFE loser.

 You bought this car, which you have never seen before. You have no experience with this car and you don't know what, if any problems it had because you just don't know the car, as would anyone who just buys a used car. NOT ONCE did YOU even bother to CHECK THE OIL. You just drive it. You have ZERO CLUE as to whether or not there's oil in the engine and it never even occurs to you to check it because you probably don't even bother to do that common sense thing! If you would have, you could have added oil. Once again, another example of the DUMBING DOWN of America. Anybody with half a brain, would have, out of an abundance of caution, would have checked the oil on a USED CAR, they don't know because they need to observe these things. Absolutely amazing!!!

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How did the vehicle perform during the prepurchase test drive?

You bought a used vehicle for $29k sight unseen, without a test drive, and without having a mechanic look at it?  That's some weapons-grade stupidity right there.

Your vehicle has a blown engine, probably a busted valve seal.  It's causing it to burn lots of oil.  The smoke is a dead giveaway.  As far as the car running out of oil: you were driving it for weeks without ever checking the dipstick, so it's totally your fault.  You almost certainly damaged the engine even more. 

That said, even if you keep the oil topped off, you will eventually destroy the engine if you keep driving it with a severe oil burning problem.  You need to take it to a real mechanic (not Firestone tire and lube monkeys) and have the engine overhauled or replaced.

The seller doesn't owe you anything, since you almost certainly bought the car AS IS.  It's your problem now.  And good luck getting the extended warranty to pay for anything.  They'll most likely deny it as pre-existing damage, which it is.  You should have noticed it before plonking down money for the car.