Florida does not have a used car Lemon Law
 

My son in law bought a used car yesterday, first time buyer, and ended up paying $7000 more than it was worth with dealer add on etc. He called the dealership today and they said sorry but we can't do anything about it. Buyers beware, it seems a bad law to me.

There should be a 3 day period to cancel the purchase. Call a lawyer if necessary.

You referenced "Lemon Law" in the title of your post. The "Lemon Law" refers to new cars that repeated fail and not situations where someone overpaid.

I have checked and that only applies to new cars

With the information and technology available today, there is no excuse for a half way intelligent person to overpay for any vehicle, new or used. And by $7,000 ???

Tuccillo you are correct it is not a Lemon by definition, however, I would think that there should be a grace period in case you change your mind.

I do not believe FL has a grace period. As suggested above, I would talk to a lawyer. There might be an issue with deceptive practices by the dealership. My gut feel is that this will turn out to be an expensive lesson.

Having been in auto sales in Indiana for over 30 years I always find this type of post interesting.

First the OP states that their son in law paid $7,000. more than the car is worth and this was discovered in less than 24 hours. I would like to know what year, make, model, miles and state of purchase information on this car and I would be happy to post the research as to price. Lets see if he was indeed taken advantage of and to what degree. Or is this a case where his in laws didn't want him purchasing this car.

In the state of Indiana and many other states the 3 day right of rescission on a auto purchase applies only if the seller came to the buyers home not if the buyer came to the sellers business.

The price seemed fair to us $9500 2014 Chevy Sonic 22000 miles, the charges $800 pre delivery and service fee with electronic filing, I think the kicker was 1800 extended service contract, which he is canceling, all this at 14% interest over 6 years, plus off course sales taxes. So I suppose I should have said without interest $13200 an increase of $3700. Thank everyone for their comments.

14% interest? I assume he had some credit rating issues.

Wow!

When he has trouble with the transmission in about a year, please don't come back on here and tell us how they didn't fix it for free after you cancelled your extended warranty.

Yes he should have waited for his wife who had to work she has a much better rating. Anyway we all learn from experience he is a good husband and meant well.

Encourage him to follow the maintenance schedule in the owners manual. If he does, it should last him a good long time.

I just had a thought for a different approach, call one of the Orlando TV stations, they seem to like exposing bad car deals. One of them recently had an expose' on a dealership that was selling cars that were not repairable, and then not honoring the "warranty".