Carvana Delivers Vehicles That Failed State Inspection With Undisclosed Defects and Misleading Reconditioning
A buyer received a Carvana vehicle that could not be legally driven — missing required hardware, fraudulent wiper blades, a burn in the seat, and wrong oil type — contradicting Carvana's advertised 150-point reconditioning. By the time the defects became apparent, the 7-day return window had closed. Carvana's settlement offers amounted to a fraction of actual repair costs, leaving the buyer financially harmed with no real recourse.
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