An auto lease fraud class action against Autowest Dodge and its parent Auto Nation was certified as a class action last week in San Francisco Superior Court. The class claims that the dealer failed to disclose the itemization of capitalized cost in the precise manner required by law. According to the class the dealer altered the lease agreement after the consumer signed it and left the dealership. This is an unauthorized alteration of documents.
Lease agreements are filled in at the dealership in several copies and most of the customers think that all of these copies of the lease agreements are identical. However, this is far from being a reality and the bank, as customers discovered later, got more information than they did. The basic problem is that most of the customers did not keep their lease agreements or cannot find them to compare the documents to those produced by the dealer and/or the bank. This is why we strongly advise car buyers to keep their lease agreements or any such documents, even after the lease has expired.
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