re: carvana
I only have second hand experience with them..
My Brother sold them 2 vehicles a couple years apart, and bought one, and My GF after car shopping for a couple years, ended up buying her car from them in 2020.
the sales to Carvana. no problems. when his Chally finally showed up on their site, we questioned privately a couple of the "scratches" they highlighted (one legit looked like a cobweb), but...they were both smooth and painless transactions.
the Escape He bought when he traded them his Volt however.....
"new brakes and tires" cheapest ones they could find(some chinese brand i've never heard of)..but whatever, they are new..
it has a clean carfax, but some of the shoddiest respray work we've ever seen...bad tape lines between panels where they repainted them ON the car, and there's no paint in the panel gap b/c that's where the tape was.. the whole RR quarter is covered in runs and orange peel...
it's also the 2017+ 2.0 EB, which are known to crack blocks and drink coolant. levels are staying steady for now... but at some point it WILL need a new block...
(he didn't know about the second gen EB 4cyl issues when he pulled the trigger. he was referencing off our dad's 2015 2.0 EB, which is a different block design, and doesn't have the same design defect.)
GF's car.. it's a 2014(?) Mitsubishi Mirage. she calls it the blueberry (it's tiny and blue). (paid about 10k for it, but at the peak of the pandemic used car shortages)
2 sets of mismatched tires,(fronts the wrong size) and the little 3 pot has enough of a vibration it probably has a bad motor mount.
it didn't appear to have gone through any reconditioning, as the tires were old. ( Not sure how old, but in the last month 2 of them stopped holding air, without punctures, but as of yesterday she has a mostly matching* set of new Khumo's, just in time for the snow. - she has a 45 min country road commute)
*mostly matching - couple weeks ago, one went down half way home, she replaced just that tire.
last week, as she's leaving work, one was flat, and wouldn't hold air. she replaced just that tire.
later that afternoon, I went back to discount and bought the other 2. they went on yesterday.