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adampdx | June 10, 2009 10:15 PM | in Legal | via Twitter | about How to Buy a Used Car

I absolutely hate used car salesmen. My buddy was given a car to drive off the lot 2 sep times with each time no bank approved! Is it legal?

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BEST ANSWER decided by votes | buddawiggi | June 10, 2009 10:48 PM | view on twitter

I don't know what country or state you are in.
I briefly sold Hondas (9 months), new and used, for Autofair Honda in Manchester, NH and we let just about anyone take a test drive. Is that what you meant? As long as we had a copy of their drivers licence it was completely legal to do this.
It was not even a requirement that I went on the drive with the customer.
99% of the time I did not go with the customer, this was encouraged behavior.

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Employee manual-- Autofair Honda

tags: car, sales, legal

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imadrid | June 10, 2009 11:58 PM

I'm just wondering. In the USA a Repo guy can take your car without your knowledge legally. As long have they have documentation.

Is it possible that a used car salesman sold they guy a car 2 times to take home and use. While they are waiting for the bank's loan approval. When the bank loan was rejected the car was jacked by the Repo guy.

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buddawiggi | June 11, 2009 12:06 AM

I don't think so. In NH we were able to determine financing instantly, if they had the loan they drove home in the car, if they were not approved at all then the drove home in the car they came in. Without a loan in place no paperwork was signed.
Either we secured financing with one of our lenders (usually) or they secured private financing themselves and brought docs with them.
At Autofair we simply could not let a vehicle leave pending loan approval.

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