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No legal advice here ...

Write it off (mentally) as tuition and get on with life. Fix 'er up the way you like. Drive often and far! If you drive the car for 10 years, you'd have spent the same amount of money wether the car was in great shape or not. You're just front loading the repairs.

Getting in a legal battle will just sour everything for you, and even if you win the case, it's not so easy to actually collect... and you're likely to spend as much as you stand to collect. You will have a lousy time with everything until the issue is closed for you. If you can afford a 911, it's not worth $9K to have a crappy summer (or more).

Accept your loss, find 'closure' to the incident, and start enjoying your 911, which is presumably why you bought it in the first place.

I'll share my lawyerly experience here. On my father-in-laws advice and against my better judgement (he's a lawyer) we retained an attorney for buying a buildable lot. The deal went sour when previously undisclosed deed restrictions suddenly surfaced. The lawyer got us our deposit back (eventually), without even going to court. It cost us $3600 to get $3000 back. The $3600 does not include the deal related stuff that we were planning on paying anyway. Every time the legal beagle answered the phone, he charged us for 15 minutes of time at $250 / hour. Every 5 line letter was billed at $200 to $300. Every minute used for travel was charged at full rate. And we had 2 months of crap. It was NOT worth it just to 'win'. And, financially, we lost. We payed $600 to have 2 crappy months of spring, when we could have been looking for other lots or houses.

My $0.0005