Carvana refuses to honor warranty transfer after vehicle replacement
A Carvana customer had a defective vehicle replaced under warranty, but when a major transmission failure occurred later, Carvana claimed the original warranty did not transfer to the replacement vehicle despite being told otherwise. An individual warranty/consumer-protection dispute.
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