Martin's Used Cars & Collectibles

Great family, great cars, and excellent service! I highly recommend their cars to anyone. I continue to drive by constantly, and I honk and wave in my favorite PT Cruiser that I have purchased from them! This is a great car, and I have put over 5,000 miles on it with NO PROBLEM. I'm in love with the car Tom Martin has sold me!

I purchased a 2005 Ford Escape Hybrid in 2016 from Tom Martin. Tom posted this car for sale on Craigslist. I contacted him and asked him to send me the car fax on this vehicle. He did so and in a phonecall conversation he assured me that there were no issues with the car. On the day I purchased it he told me that the car would not have passed North Carolina inspection without extensive testing.

After driving 4 hours to pick up the vehicle because Tom claimed his mother was in the hospital in New York, and we believe used fraud in the inducement. We find out after taking the vehicle home that it has had, according to two mechanics, extensive damage to the axle and transmission and that the cost of repairs is now estimated over $6,400, which is more than the cost of the vehicle. He failed to disclose the damage.

There is no way that Mr. Martin did not know of the issues wrong with this vehicle. Otherwise his hands wouldn’t have been shaking the whole time he was writing out the sales contract. He purchased this car from CarMax and there is no way that they or their mechanics did not know about the issues with this vehicle.

Do not buy any car from this place or any used car dealership without taking it to a dealership mechanic and having it checked out. Any inspection he’s had from across the street is obviously inadequate.