@AndoAv8R
If a Ford Buy Back occurs in a State where a vehicle and its title are branded a Lemon, some States will not allow the resale of a Lemon by law.
Ford’s way around this is to use a closed auction process - pick up the vehicle, move it to a State where it can be resold, repair it and throw it on a Ford Dealer lot. After a Lemon is initially taken back, is when it goes to auction, but must be bought by an in-network Ford Dealership buyer from a different State IF it cannot be sold in a State that prohibits the sale or resale of a Lemon’d vehicle.
For those that don’t know, Ford also gives the Dealership who is facilitating the initial Lemon transaction money for taking the collateral back.
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RAV Buy Backs are never CPO... they are Lemons, whether the Buy Back was a collateral swap or a complete refund to satisfy the prior owner’s displeasure and exit from a problematic vehicle. In order for Ford to have that car back on their lot, it has to be repaired and there has to be a document that outlined what was repaired.
Ford is not loosing money on RAV Buy Backs.
If the car is indeed a Ford RAV Buy Back Lemon, on the driver side B-pillar, below the original VCL there will be a label stating the car was a Ford RAV Buy Back.
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That RAV decal would have been placed on the car after it went through the Ford BuyBack process and before it’s returned to Ford Inventory. It is to remain on the car indefinitely.
After the Lemon is put back into FORD Inventory for retail sale, the car would have to be advertised as a Lemon and would have the appropriate labeling in ANY advertisement of the vehicle. The first Ford retail customer buying it (after being a Lemon), that retail buyer would have had to sign off on any Ford RAV paperwork informing them that they are buying a vehicle that was involved in a Ford RAV Lemon Buy Back.
Period.
And lastly - ANY vehicle that has been deemed a Lemon through any Vehicle Manufacturer Buy Back process - that vehicle’s VIN is marked for eternity as a Lemon. It’s flagged in the Vehicle Manufacturer’s systems, it’s flagged in any DMV system and the same will show on any type of vehicle VIN report. It’s not so much the “title” being marked as a Lemon - the VIN to that vehicle is tagged. Once that VIN has any Lemon history attached to it - it follows the vehicle everywhere.
Ford OASIS and ETIS are Ford Dealership systems only. When a VIN is input into it, it reveals any Warranty history, any maintenance or repair history (non-warranty) if that vehicle was serviced at any Ford Dealership AND it also notes any RAV Buy Back history (if applicable).