All-Around Headache for Everyone

[Music] this is the plaintiff robert johnson he says he was unfairly taken advantage of by the defendant who sold him a junk car he won't stand behind the sale or make good on the repairs he needs and that's not right bottom line he wants a refund because he was lied to and is suing for the five thousand dollars he's now owed this is the defendant assad fazal he says the plaintiff is a young kid who doesn't know what he's doing he didn't register the car in the required 45 day period and it wouldn't pass inspection because it had no plates he tried explaining things to the defendant the guy's as stubborn as they come maybe the judge will be able to get through to him today oh my full refund yeah right he's accused of ripping off a kid okay all parties please ready you see they come to order please let the kids have been swarming your honor thank you you're welcome okay mr johnston you bought a car from the defendant correct yes sir how much did you pay i paid 2 400 and what kind of car was it it was a 2001 mitsubishi eclipse what day did you purchase it i purchased the car on october 3rd of 2019. all right and what goes wrong with it i took the car out of the dealership ended up drove it around for a bit of time ended up the check engine light came on before i was even able to bring the car back to him the car started leaking oil significantly okay yes so what happened uh he had said that the check engine light was due to it brought it to him yes to authorize mechanic that he had uh the check engine light was due to what um an o2 sensor that was needed to be replaced that i was told that was already replaced okay had you already replaced the o2 sensor all two sensors were replaced on this before you bought it correct but that's not why the check engine light turned on okay why was the check engine light on the day after he purchased the vehicle he sent me a picture of the check engine light on and he says it i filled up gas i might have a loose gas cap so i told him to come back i will check it out and that's what it was it was because of the gas cap the light so did the check engine light go off correct and then then it went back on uh yes okay and when it went back on did he bring it back to you i i don't know about any time you're going back okay so it goes back on and what happens when you say you refer him to a mechanic who is that mechanic so it's a local mechanic that i deal with because he wanted to do it why do you refer him to the mechanic because of the oil leak complaint no because he wanted to do some exhaust work on the vehicle what's exhaust work so he wanted to change out the mufflers just to make it louder customize it is that accurate uh yes your honor but as well as i made sure that it was clear that any exhaust work that was to be done on the car the oil leak was to be fixed first which i do have here's what i want to understand all right um the oil you take the car to the mechanic he directs you to he says this is the guy i do business with take it over there so you go over there and there's what is it you have done by him first um the first thing that we have done is the crankshaft seal okay is that crankshaft seal covered under warranty yup and we paid for it okay is it true they paid for it no you're on it okay who paid for it uh it came out in my pocket your honor okay do you have proof that you paid for it uh yes do you have proof you paid for it well when we yes or no do you have proof you paid for it no okay so show me the proof you paid for it and how much was it so the only thing i have that shows that i paid for work done was the 16th of october for 217 dollars worth of work to be paid for what does it say though was the work uh it's just the bank statement you're on right you're only receiving me where's your receipt from the mechanic that tells you what you had done i don't have you're in court suing for that cost of repairs how am are you going to prove to me what was that there were see he only has to pay for things that were covered under warranty you bought a used car but you have a warranty right it has to be in the first 30 days and it has to be an engine and transmission problem because that's the only thing that you have warranted so i need to see what the repairs were to divvy out what it is that's under your warranty and what it is that's your responsibility you see yeah so how do you come to court without the actual recipe the only receipts that were ever given to me was non-itemized receipts that didn't even uh place prices or anything associated with those receipts but why do you you shouldn't permit that you're young how old are you 22. you're right yeah that's it's a baby but you know you if if if you're gonna some he doesn't just have to pay for everything that goes wrong with the car you know that i understand yes right so you know when when the guy's giving you that receipt you say oh no no you need to itemize it so that we can now figure out what parties is and what part is mine show me whatever you got from how long was the car at the mechanics oh it's stoked what yes you're on why is it still at the mechanism we're waiting on information regarding a part additional part that i need for it to pass the inspection it's yes okay but the thing had passed inspection right before you sold it right correct we already did the inspection right before we sold it how did it fail on uh i couldn't tell you the unfortunately part is you say that it's the exhaust that he put on correct is he show me the failure um take your time don't panic no no no you're not i just don't have the thing they ended up the failed paperwork they had taken it back today uh assad and the additional mechanics that were there did you take back a failed paperwork a failure no that that's okay so why would you release something that you need in order to pursue your case why would you hand it to other people i mean take a picture of it and send them the picture but why would you release the actual paperwork who failed you um the mechanic shop that it's still currently being at that he's business personally is that guy asking you to pick up your car or no um he's actually not returning any of my phone calls any of my texts i have proof of that he's left me on red multiple days now um assad had even texted me on the behalf of the mechanic and when i reached out to the mechanic this is your mechanic that you sent them to i'd like to an understanding of what repairs have taken place and i want to see what they are why is your mechanic so bush league that he doesn't itemize what the stuff is what is this so so it's not technically my mechanic it's a mechanic i referred to okay so let me see what that mechanic has written up you have something from him so the first receipt he actually sent me was just a regular receipt let me see it i'll show it to you so on the receiver states it's just a piece of paper and that's what i said this is not not like legit mechanical you know there's laws that govern when you're doing mechanical work on on on automobiles in new york like this is what is this that's all he sent me he said if you could pay for the oil leak i said okay no problem so this is exhaust parts why would you be i'm sorry this is everything that he did at the mechanic the exhaust parts exhaust labor cam seal pan gasket oil change fix trunk latch install hatch something do you have that it's a yellow piece of paper looks like this uh yes i have that one okay that's for the 515 correct good belts good need struts and links okay and that's 515 correct what there did you pay for 135 for the the cam seal and the oil gasket and what did you pay i actually paid the whole 515. okay prove to me you paid the whole 50 300 cash proofed okay okay you need gonna need to show me receipts son and and show me that you paid it you show me that you paid it what's wrong with you people you're in court you don't think i'm gonna ask you to prove your cases seriously what do you think is okay i need you to stop okay i mean you had the time to help your son was before now is this your son your boyfriend or wizzy uh son okay um you know you know i don't understand you walk in here with your hands like this and your hands like this and your poor mother stuck looking through paperwork if you paid something prove it if you paid something prove it what's going on why would you think a judge is not going to ask you prove you paid it how could you think i'm not going to ask you that if it's under the warranty um i have proof that i paid two hundred and seventeen dollars worth of that and the rest was in cash show it to me the two for the 2 17 25. this is just a text like where is the actual stuff i don't know what is your mom suggesting oh no my bank statement just came up so i was just going to show you the actual bank statement okay show me now you're going to show me the actual bank statement it's going to show a payment to delta no what is it going to show up for whatever reason that's the receipt paper they were using the delta is associated with the bp so i'm not sure where they got their receipt paper from but that was what was issued to me from bp mom step up a second let me ask you a question have you gone with them to bp to see when the car is going to be released and what's going on what do they tell you um they basically said they had to take apart the engine two times to fix it to fix what in it the oil leak there was a significant oil leak multiple why would you have to open up an engine to fix an oil leak they had to take it apart do the seals okay i'm gonna need the bp guy so somebody is able is there somebody able to get him on the phone i don't he he don't he does not return my calls anymore i call him you call him is this your phone correct okay okay stop talking get this guy on the phone i need this guy on the phone thank you so she wants to speak to him you want him to to start the call you're on or do you want to start the call i don't care what do you think will be more effective is it on speaker hi hi sonny hi sonny this is judge marilyn milian from the people's court how you doing i'm good uh he's handed me his phone we're here in the middle of our trial and no one here knows what the heck is going on so i want to hear it directly from you okay great so he brings the car to you in october and he asks you to for a different like souped-up or whatever exhaust system correct yeah what else did he what other work did you do on the car 500 for an oil leak i'm not in the office that's the thing would an oil leak cost 500 that was probably the whole receipt 500. how much is owed to you right now okay so what you're saying is that this car owes you 1100 what is that 1100 for can you tell me do you have a receipt you're looking at that you're reading off of yes can you do me a favor and will you text that to assad's phone sure text that right now but don't hang up on me because you're the first person giving me information okay just give me one okay uh did you get it hold on that one says timing belt water pump and the and these were done on what date uh or two days before that day okay so this says date in 12 4 date due 12-4 but you think it went in but definitely in december not in october okay mr johnson how would any of this that's still outstanding be his responsibility to pay if this is all stuff that happened after the 30-day warranty so actually from what i read on new york state any vehicle under 80 000 miles which was this vehicle is covered under a 60-day warranty and on top of that this is a recurring issue that i've been bringing back the car for okay so let me see where you brought it to sunny or where or to sunny right um where you brought the stuff that you did in december is that stuff that he had brought to you in october or november that you were redoing yesterday no is this all new stuff that's the new stuff okay how are you going to prove some that it's recurring stuff when your own mechanic that you took it to i know he referred you to him but your own mechanic says this is new stuff so how are you going to prove that it's recurring stuff so i have text messages uh contacts between assad the mechanic and an additional mechanic that was working on the vehicle at the time at what time or all through the recurring okay so you show me what you have in october and november that would shed some light on whether this was recurring or not sunny stay with me a second can you okay i thought you said you weren't at the shop yeah no i left the shop working right now oh well then how come you told me earlier i'm not at the shop when i asked you for something no no i said i'm not in the office oh okay okay i have uh text messages dating back to the 20th uh from one of the mechanics of why the car is still in the shop and here's that okay give me one second i'm sorry yeah october 7th okay i'm sorry sonny i do have a question i see a text between you and him is it sunny or johnny i believe that one's johnny johnny is one of my workers okay where one of your workers texts them on halloween on october 31st i have to kind of rebuild the upper half of the engine where the cams are yeah the top intake has to come off the valve cover gases have to come off that's a different job that was in the beginning right and at the beginning what was that what job was that for those were a cam seal there was a there was an oil leak from the top that we had to change okay so would that be on the bill that says 515 where it says cam seal and the other thing yeah that's the tan seal that's the that's the one that i saw took care of okay so according to me paid you 135 dollars um okay i got you give me two seconds i'm almost done with you i'm sorry i appreciate your time okay son you have sent me um texts that do nothing to help your case they basically you know that you're getting him to agree to pay the exact things that he says he paid and that the spell that the mechanic says he paid everything else that you've done would either it needs to be under the warranty period i think i'm going to go ahead and i think i'm going to go ahead and hang up with you sonny thank you okay bye-bye all right so now what i need from you is any bills that you maintain he needs to pay under warranty because if he doesn't need to pay them under warranty you need to pay them and that's why you don't have a car because you haven't paid them we can't register the vehicle man you're beyond you can't you don't have a vehicle so i you whether you registered or not is like bizarre to me because you've you have been driving the vehicle and bringing it in and out according to the mechanic why didn't you register the vehicle before driving it when i had purchased the vehicle as soon as the check engine light came on it was unfortunately already too late for me to go to dmv on the next day that i was able to go to dmv i had already brought the car to the mechanic at that point i was waiting for the car to be done i'm sorry do you need the car in order to register it i didn't want to register anything until okay so you chose not to register it all right and now i saw what was the deal with the registration like i saw some daisy that's where all the texts back and forth between you guys where you said i'll i'll i'll change the paperwork we'll change the date so that you can register and did he ever bring you the paperwork or did you ever did you ever do that or what happened so i told him uh i'll redo the paperwork because he passed the deadline to register the vehicle within 45 days he didn't register the vehicle in the 45 days so we transferred his original plates onto the car we gave him temporary registration insurance everything's set to go they go to the dmv december 19th why did you wait so long to go to the dm the first time i went to the dmv was the 29th unfortunately what of november when i had finally gotten the car back out of the shop or the oil leaks at that point you had the car more days than zero between october 3rd and november 20. no your honor i was continually bringing the car back continually means you have the car more days than zero if you're going back and forth which is exactly what your mechanic says going back and forth then you have the car more days than zero why didn't you register the car you went you let the thing inspire that it's a you problem it's not a hidden problem now what has to happen now to resolve that so let's assume she pays the money how is it that she can register the car i could redo the paperwork only if it passes emissions again so admissions has to be done within 30 days within 30 days of what registration no but wait what comes first you do the paperwork i can't do the paperwork until emissions passes again and then if it passes what and then i do the paperwork again he's able to register the vehicle okay i am i am making part of my order that you accommodate him that way correct can i okay in order for the car to pass inspection we need something called an egr tube unfortunately those parts are discontinued i have a place that could make one i've been texting sonny for a long time asking him please give him okay you got a lawsuit against sonny then but these are things that are not they're not concerned a lawsuit well i know i don't want a lawsuit either but that's what i'm doing with taking the car it's not even about the money well it seems to be about the money because at some point sonny's going to start charging you storage fees you need to get the car out of there and when when i was there and he and he did this receipt i did try and give him a partial payment and he wouldn't accept it okay okay so now do you have the 1100 unless you're able to show to me that part of that bill is on him let me tell you what's not gonna happen you're not gonna get your money back all right what you have a right to is what you have a right to which is 60 days of engine and transmission not anything else just engine and transmission so i look at the stuff you brought me and the the one thing i see that for sure has to do with engine and transmission is the stuff he already paid so pay sonny and get your car the fact that you don't have the cars on you not on him can i say one thing please you can i would just like the measurements of that little part that we need so that from home from sunny so that we okay just you understand you're not suing sunny though right so you're gonna you know i i'm i don't even has he blocked you what's going on he i keep texting and he just doesn't answer okay get sonny back on this phone i want him back i mean he's not going to answer now tom it's you text him and tell him sonny i'm going to call you now it's not the judge it's me we'll take the car we're fine with that you can't take the car unless you pay for the car i understood it i don't have it so then okay wait why do you even need sonny because i need the measurements for that part why don't you just pay sonny take the car and get the measurements from your next mechanical guy's not registered there's no place on we can't drive these are all you problems ma'am because you guys had a certain amount of time to register it and the car was in his possession and sunnyboy over here didn't get it registered okay he did all right sonny i didn't think you were going to answer so i made him call you i appreciate it listen up there's she she says i just need one favor from you apparently there's some part that the car won't pass inspection without that she knows a machine shop i guess that'll build it and she needs some measurements do you know what i'm talking about the egr tube the egr tube in order to get the measurement in the back of the mortar oh yeah you're gonna have to get that on your own all right no we're done i got you honey thank you i got it all right no we're done here's what's going to happen you want your car there are things you got to do you got to pay sonny you got to get your car you got to take it to a mechanic you like and then you got to ask the mechanic to do all that because he's not going to take apart the motor in order to give you a measurement that's not happening i thought i could help you out with that but i can't okay he said he would that's right okay well maybe that was before he you'd left the car there for all this time and not paid him so now he's not so cool i don't want to hear another word i'm done okay so if you are unable to show to me which i think you are unable to show to me any other covered warranty expenses then there's nothing else that you can get out of that man so my verdict in this case is for the defendant my advice to you is so that you do not lose all of your investment is that you pay sonny and get the car away from him get it towed to your mechanic and figure yourself out i am asking you whatever it is you can do to help this man register the car please do so you can help the man register the car well i know but no that's not all you wanted what you wanted man was five thousand dollars and the registration is a you problem not a him problem so it's a favor right it's a favor okay but good luck everybody [Music] well unfortunately for the plaintiff this turned out to be a purchase of a car that became a headache for everybody involved what are you gonna do i'm just gonna fix the car and drive the car thank you well you gotta you gotta pay the mechanic where the car is right yes it's all right we'll figure it out what have you learned from all of this uh don't trust business man well no i mean he seems like a fairly good guy all right thank you very much good luck to you i'm sorry you're having problems and mr brazal i'm sorry you've had problems too and got involved in this you did your part though it seems like i i try to do everything i could to help him out okay as far as getting it registered you'll help them there too definitely good enough thank you very much sir appreciate your help okay harvey okay doug look we have talked about this before but even when you buy a used car or truck or whatever you have a right even if they say it's an as-is sale to say nope i want a warranty got a limited warranty if you want one get something but you have a right to ask for it even if they say as is and if you feel uncomfortable about that and they won't do it walk away you

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Length: 23min 23sec (1403 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 02 2021