I purchased a used "one owner" 2002 Honda Civic Coupe with 117K about ... read more I purchased a used "one owner" 2002 Honda Civic Coupe with 117K about a year ago from the family owned Lightning Auto located in Lufkin, TX. Their website states reason why you should buy a pre-owned car from them stating, "Family owned and operated and we still believe our WORD is our BOND." This is has NOT been my experience for the following reasons: Had to wait for the car to get out of the shop before final buy to fix the front struts but then had to return the car back to the dealers mechanic because it still had the same knocking sound which they fixed the bushing but only on one tire and after taking the car to my own mechanic I find that I needed new bushing on all tires which they failed to fix or inform me but they didn't car cause the car was already sold. Three months after owning the car the transmission blew out. Their "6 month warranty on every vehicle with less than 200,000 miles" is worthless and I ended up paying $1500 out of pocket to re-build the transmission. In addition, the transmission mech. informed me that the "engine control sensory unit" is going out and my car could just not start at any point. About 7-8 months of owning the car the air conditioning has gone out. Right in time for summer!!! Cannot afford to fix it and of course the great warranty is expired but wouldn't have fixed it either way. Beyond all that... the spoiler is broken off, the inside panel of driver door wont stay on, and the headliner is dropping down on all corners. This is the worst car I have ever had and now I know why they would only fax me the first few pages of the carfax. It is convenient that I bet every single dollar ive spent on this car that it had been totaled... salvaged.. and pieced together by their own in house mechanic and im the sucker that fell for their "WORD." Either that or the one who "hand selects the vehicles" has no idea what he or she is doing and you never know what your going to get when you buy from them. I can ho
