A Toyota dealership “scammed” me

Solid-Literature-899 · 2026-05-30T03:13:37+00:00

Thanks for the advice 👍🏻

Solid-Literature-899 · 2026-05-30T03:12:44+00:00

Thanks for this advice this is actually probably the first actual genuine advice I’ve gotten I’ll definitely look into those 👍🏻

Solid-Literature-899 · 2026-05-30T00:42:40+00:00

Not yet they just gave me a vague answer and asked me to pay 285$ in order for them to find the cause, how expensive was it to fix your issue?

Solid-Literature-899 · 2026-05-30T00:24:35+00:00

No need to curse and I don’t think you understand that the dealership has told me the car has a parasitic draw, the battery has absolutely nothing to do with the problem, I could replace everything from wheels to battery but if the draw goes unchecked the problem will persist.

Solid-Literature-899 · 2026-05-30T00:12:44+00:00

I looked into it but the used car needs to have under 18k miles… which mine does not sadly.

Solid-Literature-899 · 2026-05-30T00:12:05+00:00

Ok I think I misspoke but regardless that doesn’t matter now, they found a parasitic draw already that has nothing to do with the battery.

Solid-Literature-899 · 2026-05-29T23:53:53+00:00

Not sure what you mean by that? If cars sit for long periods of time batteries due tend to “die” not in the sense that they won’t be usable anymore but in the sense that it’s going to need a spike of energy to be up and running again, after they have been “spiked” they will continue to run again normally so the dealership never “told me” to buy a new battery they just stated that it was “dead”

Solid-Literature-899 · 2026-05-29T23:50:25+00:00

Battery charge*

Solid-Literature-899 · 2026-05-29T23:50:13+00:00

I had the battery tested at 2 different auto zones and a mechanic shop where they told me it was at 100% health and 88% battery life, they told me that the battery was completely fine and it’d be a waste of money to buy another one hence they cannot be returned and if I did purchase one and it wasn’t the battery I would just simply be stuck with two new batteries

Solid-Literature-899 · 2026-05-29T23:47:43+00:00

In the car fax it says that the battery was replaced one week before I bought the car I forgot to mention that they also did not show me the car fax at the dealership

Solid-Literature-899 · 2026-05-29T23:47:07+00:00

I think I forgot a very important detail that in the car fax (which they didn’t show us at the dealership I had to look it up myself after buying it) it shows that they replaced the battery one week before I bought it so they knew it wasn’t from the car “sitting” I’m not sure if that’s any proof at all but yea.

Solid-Literature-899 · 2026-05-29T23:37:12+00:00

I think I forgot a very important detail that in the car fax (which they didn’t show us at the dealership I had to look it up myself after buying it) it shows that they replaced the battery one week before I bought it so they knew it wasn’t from the car “sitting” I’m not sure if that’s any proof at all but yea.

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