tulsa wrote:
What I am talking about is a "friendly buy back", a situtation where Chrysler buys the car back before the Lemon Law is put into effect. My understanding is that a friendly buy-back can result in a new clean title, whereas the title of the "Lemon Law" vehicle is so marked(I have 93 voyager with one). My 05 CRD was purchased in Arkansas and came with a clean new car title in November of 06, was built in August of 04. It was either a Corporate car or a friendly buy back, I do not know which.
There is more truth in this statement than most realize. A vehicle in not legally defined as a "lemon" until a manufacturer is ordered by a court to buy it back. If you settle out of court on a buy-back arrangement the title will look no different than any other used car. Will just have a used vehicle title with a manufacturer as the owner like a returned lease vehicle. Wash this again through the auction with the rest of their lease returns & rental fleet returns and it will be very difficult to differentiate. The big difference here is an intuitive guess that it's too early to have a lease return and not many rental fleets would have CRD's in their inventory.
On your new (essentially two-year old) '05, if your title originated from an original MSO then it was never titled, not pre-owned or a friendly buy-back. I did look at a used '05 CRD Limited with an early build date and 450 miles on the clock. It also was sporting a CEL sitting on the lot which the dealer didn't have the slightest clue about the problems. Lets just say that I chose to pass on that combination (CRD and the dealer).
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