'I Need a Lawyer:' Man Buys Honda Accord with 130,000 Miles on It For $17,000. Then His Dashboard Lights Up with Warnings
A man is asking for advice on what he should do about the 2018 Honda Accord Sport he bought earlier this summer. Since he bought it, the Accord has been nothing but trouble.
His decision to buy it in the first place has people questioning his judgment and wondering what convinced him to spend so much on a vehicle with that much wear and tear.
“I bought this car like a month and a half ago. It has 130,000 miles on it for like $17,000. It’s a Honda Accord with a 1.5-liter engine,” says TikToker Abe (@saint_abe).
“On the second day of owning this car I randomly started getting lights on my dashboard. So I call the dealership, I’m like ‘hey, is there anything that you can do? I just got this car.”
He says the dealership told him it was the rocker arm solenoid and to bring it in. “They fixed it and gave it back,” he says.
Fast forward a month and a half, and his dashboard is lighting up again.
Squeaky Wheel Got No Grease
Abe then goes on to explain that “not too long ago he left a review on the dealership’s page, wrote everything I’ve encountered since I got the car, including me filling the coolant every two days. “
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He says they saw the review and reached out, asking if he was still having issues with the car. “I told them what was going on,” he says, “and they literally said they can’t do anything about it.”
Now Abe isn’t sure what to do or what his options are. He doesn’t know if he can sue the dealership or even just return the car. “I’m stuck,” he says, adding, “I don’t know what to do at this point.” His stress and frustration are palpable.
Fresh out of ideas, Abe is pleading for advice because, as he says, “I’m lost.”
Did He Get Ripped Off?
If people have opinions about anything, it’s used vehicles. The comments in Abe’s video exemplify that. There are some people genuinely trying to help, while others are taking him to task for a poor choice in vehicle.
“17k for 130k miles was your first issue,” wrote ceci. Others expressed similar sentiments.
“Gang 17k for a car w 130k miles is outrageous. That’s on you,” commented kev. Abe responded to kev’s comment with a crying emoji.
Cars.com says 2018 Accords start at roughly $24,000. Edmunds lists them for sale for between $14,000 and $20,000.
While that might be true that he overpaid considering the vehicle's above-average mileage, insulting him doesn’t help Abe with his Honda Accord woes.
Uliquora was a bit more understanding of his predicament, writing of the 2018 Accord Sport, “1.5t is everyone’s downfall.”
lvette offered some potentially helpful advice. “Dude it’s the head gasket,” lvette said. “I had the same car, same color and all the same problems. I changed the coils, sparkplugs and cat misfiring cylinder three. The best thing to do is get your car scoped with the camera and that’s how it showed that I had a head gasket problem. Good luck friend.”
Does Lemon Law Apply?
In his video, Abe asks about legal recourse.
In the comments, someone suggests he see if it qualifies under his jurisdiction’s Lemon Law. “if you’ve had 3 or more service visits for a safety issue or part you have a case. I’m not a lawyer though,” wrote IloveShedwine.
The commenter is correct. Though laws vary from state to state, each state has a version of the Lemon Law. This allows people to return vehicles that have defects that have not been corrected within a set number of attempts by the seller.
If Abe qualified in his state, he could pursue this option. Though, as others have found, there's no guarantee it will be successful.
There’s also a federal Lemon Law. But as disappointed buyers before Abe have learned, you’ll often need a lawyer.
The Saga Concludes
Through multiple posts about the Accord saga, Abe jokes that all the lights in his dashboard are Marvel’s “Infinity Stones,” and he’s “collecting them all.”
Jokes aside, after multiple calls, posts, and videos, he seems to have finally found an answer: it was the battery.
In a follow-up TikTok, he says that after replacing the old battery, “all the lights are gone. All of them.”
Here’s hoping they stay gone.
Motor1 has reached out via TikTok direct message and Instagram direct message to see if things are still rolling smoothly.
