About 4 years ago I moved to California. I went out there with my sister to see if I could start a new life, I was 20 years old so tie downs or strings attached (young and dumb). I lived in LA for about 3 months with no car and it was horrible.
After trying a toyota dealership and being rejected, since I had NO credit, my sister and I went to Ugly Duckling. I found a car that I thought was nice and that would be reliable... That joke was on me! So I signed a contract for a 1993 Nissan Sentra for $8,000 with a 18% interest rate.
The first month I had the car something in the clutch went out and the breaks went completely out. So I could not shift or stop... That was a fun ride in downtown LA. I took it back to ugly duckling they fixed the problem... Yeah right.
About 2 weeks later... Ooops it happens again. So I am thinking to my self, I must not know how to drive a stick anymore, even though every car I have ever owned has been manual transmission. OH, but what about the brakes, well I guess I dont know how to use those properly either...
So I take the car back a second time and they fixed it again with a nice $300 charge. A couple days later the car won't even start. So I call ugly duckling and tell them that they can have their piece of #$%& back. They wait about 3 weeks and finally come to get it. I would have taken it to the dealership happily, but remind you that it wouldn't start.
So this week, I go to a ford dealership to try to get a new car, I am thinking my credit is clean, it has been 4 years since ugly duckling and since it is the only thing one my credit and it is voluntary then it wont be so bad. My credit shows that it was an involuntary reposession and that it happend 1 year ago.
Now I can not do anything since Ugly Duckling has such a bad mark on my credit.
TAKE MY ADVISE: If you are planning on buying a car - Do it anywhere else, but Ugly Duckling!!
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