Saw a hard-to-find vehicle online and called about it. Salesman assured me it was in great shape, great tires, needed nothing. Took a major train trip to get it. Driver met me at train station and was nice.
Drove car 500 feet, and it was obvious the tires were terrible (one turned out to have a major gash and embedded nail) and all were badly cupped and extremely noisy. Sales Manager offered $100 towards replacement tires, telling me salesman should not have told me they were like new, but they were "good enough to pass inspection". Car had just passed PA state inspection, but inspection had been done by Kyner's themselves - letting car dealers do state inspections on their own inventory is an insane idea.
If I hadn't traveled hundreds of miles to get the car, I would have immediately left without buying it, but I made the mistake of trusting the dealer and their comments/inspection, and would have had to stay overnight to get a train back west the next day.
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