know. We don’t need that
umbrella anymore.
>> Hey, buying a used car is
already difficult with
inventory shortages and
increasing interest rates.
But, you know, the saying it
could always be Be Davis is
here to explain why one man had
to give back the car he had
paid for for more than a Me
after he bought a good morning
and will course how you can
make sure this doesn’t happen
to you.
>> Yeah, we always try to throw
that in there, right? Because
yes, through no fault of his
own with seem Akram had to shop
for used car all over again and
financing won in 2023. cost
them a lot more money than it
had in 2021. Here’s what
happened.
>> Instead of browsing car,
lots in person was seem akram
shop for his vehicle online in
December 2021. he found what he
was looking for on Carvana.
>> It was a great guy
like that. With 2015 had side
back in 2000 miles on it.
So I go one point.
>> This was the listing a 2015
Toyota Corolla with 13,000
miles for just under $19,000,
Akram took out a loan from a
bank with a 4.3% interest rate.
He made a down payment to
Carvana and the car was his
in theory because even though
Akram drove the car for an
entire year, all of 2022, when
he tried to renew their
registration and 23, the Harris
County Tax Office hit the
brakes, denying his
registration because they told
him the title to the Corolla
was rejected a year earlier,
the Department of Motor
Vehicles noticed in 2019, the
vehicles Odometer read 22,756
miles. More than 9,000 miles
higher than what was reported
by Carvana 3 years later.
>> I was driving the car like
it was a legal car. That’s what
it was. I mean, we don’t know,
really just ration no
registration and a hold on the
title.
>> Walker wanted to know why
Carvana hadn’t notified.
And when the state rejected
the title. And so when you
reach out to Carvana, they
should have had some idea of
what was going on already.
>> They say
they don’t know the be able to
fix it. And they said they meet
the needs to be like when they
did the time. The broker on.
That’s what the tone.
>> That it was a typo. Yeah.
Take will.
>> Carvana did take the car
back. They comes down payment
and paid his loan in full.
But that left him with no
vehicle.
>> It was frustrating because
right now the interest rate
is high.
Well, buying it because not
that easy. It is to be.
>> When he did find a new used
car, the best interest rate he
could get was almost 6% higher
than the one he had originally
secured. When we reached out
to Carvana spokesperson told us
they determined the mileage
on the Odometer was correct
when they sold the dock rum.
They said the old mileage
listed on the title was a
clerical error, but one that
went unnoticed until Akram
couldn’t register the car and
we checked. State law does not
require a dealer to verify
vehicles history, but the Texas
Department of Motor Vehicles
says you should do that before
you buy any used vehicle.
A title check will cost you
between 8 and $12 and Akram can
confirm it’s a lot less than
what you could lose. If you
don’t do your homework.
>> What did the diesel?
>> So after we contacted
Carvana, they did offer Akram
$1000 to help cover part of the
extra expense of his new loan
with the Higher interest, a car
bomb. A spokesperson told us
this is a rare occurrence and
that there was no easy way to
work with the state to get the
mileage on the title corrected
quickly. So that is why they
just took it back in. Yeah.
And so we didn’t have a chance
since we heard that on Friday.
The check and see it’s been
changed since then like the
title. I wanted to see if the
mileage now list the lower one.
Interesting. Yeah. But what we
do have links on click 2 to
show you how to do it, where
you can check that title to
make sure you do that before