re: Legal question: What are your rights when buying a vehicle from an individual?

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My brother (who is a dumbass) bought a vehicle from an individual yesterday. The ad and person selling promised him that there was absolutely nothing wrong with this vehicle. He looked at it, made sure everything seemed in order, paid 11k cash, and then began to drive it back to his house (couple hour trip)

His transmission broke in half about 15 miles down the road. Called the seller and they pretty much said GFY. Is he screwed or does he have any rights at all? I told him that I think he’s SOL.

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a. this might be an unlucky lottery situation where the transmission genuinely took a shite without the previous owner having an idea.

b. the previous owner might not know shite about cars and didn't know there was anything wrong.

c. you said it was a jeep, if it was a CJ7 a lot of them came with a quadratrac transfer case in the 70s that have a chain drive that sucks. I rebuilt mine with a new $300 chain, refitted everything and sold it. I talked to the people a couple months later and they said that they blew up the transfer case within a month. The chain just exploded and they had to rebuild it again.