Business ProfileforPerformance Bountiful

I bought my first car in 10 years at performance Toyota bountiful.At the time of sale,I almost left there was a ton of pressure to buy the car.As I was leaving stopped me with a “discount” and I agreed to buy the car. I purchased the car as is but “as is” means that any preexisting known problems need to be disclosed to me.I feel the vehicle condition was misrepresented to me. At the time of purchase there was a sensor light on for the parking assist. I was told this would be repaired. I had to go back and forth with the dealership even though it was signed as a “we owe” item in my agreement.First they wanted me to pay $700 then $400.They did end up repairing it, and holding to their word, as it was in the agreement. The sensor was the start of the real issue. The real issue is that the steering rack and pinion is bad. The car makes a horrible sound when turning and the repair of my 3 month new to me car is upwards of $5000. That’s a quarter of what I was financed for. I am stuck with a car that I have to fix, that I feel was completely misrepresented to me. I have researched steering rack and pinion and this typically does not go bad for 150,000+ miles to even the life of the car. When I purchased the car it had 55,000 miles on it. I have barely driven it 3000 miles in 4 months and it’s getting progressively worse. I do not believe the mechanics that inspected the car before they sold it to me at the dealership were unaware of the issue. I feel that they fully knew, chose not to disclose, and now they have no interest in assisting me because it was purchased “as is”. After waiting for years to buy a car I feel taken advantage of. I would advise anyone if you are being pressured to buy, walk away. I do not believe the mechanics did not know, because after they “fixed” the sensor is when the sound started, further connecting that the two were related. The parking assist functions from the rack and pinion which is bad, and this issue was not disclosed at sale.