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Old 07-08-2025, 12:56 PM
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Default Beware Carvana

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Originally Posted by MikeVillages View Post
Buying a car in Florida.
Please share your advice, experience, the good and bad of buying a new car in Florida.
We recently (during June) purchased a car from Carvana. We were charged $1,000 to have car delivered from Sarasota to Orlando, where we had to drive there to pick up.

KEYS - MAKE SURE you get TWO AUTHENTIC KEYS! Not a 'cloned' version. Since they cloned our second key, our car gets confused and just shuts down (NO KEY DETECTED error) if hubby and I are both carrying our keys. Carvana won't provide a REAL key. Figured out after this cloned key problem that is the CURE for several issues (Like driver 1 and driver 2 features. Since it is cloned, the car can't tell who is who).

Rolled back Odometer. Our 27,000 mile car has 50,000 mile tires which are totally worn. wear and tear in the interior shows up AFTER the 7 days return period. Whatever they used to fill the scratches in the leather show up a couple of weeks later.

We did take to Ford to have things checked out. Carvana initial coverage w
on't cover keys, the super worn out Window Buttons and other issues.