Perfect condition, never crashed, low mileage. This is what most used car ads look like. But the reality is often different. And according to experts, the situation is getting worse. It is said that there are more and more cars with twisted tachometers in the advertisements, as well as those that are after total damage and are sold as intact. Our editors responded to two such advertisements.
The extra went to see the car from Germany. The advertisement of the West Bohemian car dealer reported the speedometer as 156,874. However, the car’s history report indicated that the speedometer had been tampered with after 2019. Over 50,000 kilometers had been lost. “We don’t know, it’s not our car,” responded the salesman.
In commission sales, the car dealership is only an intermediary between the owner and the buyer. No one is forcing him to check if the car is OK. “Obviously it costs money, so we don’t normally do that for consignment cars,” explained the dealership employee.
The car dealership withdrew the car from the offer immediately after our visit. It is said that what happens next with it is up to the owner.
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We went to Central Bohemia to find another ad. The car was demolished in Germany for a total economic loss of over 900,000 crowns. But the seller advertised it as unbroken.
Contrary to his own advertisement, after a while the seller admitted that it was not a completely undamaged car. “I will say that it was definitely the victim,” he declared.
The man then explained to the staff that by the unbroken car in the ad he meant the unbroken car in this condition, i.e. at the moment when it is being sold. “Well, that’s a completely ridiculous excuse. You want to know if there was demolition in the past. Because that’s what affects both the price and the safety of traffic,” said Barbora Minksová, spokeswoman for the Cebia company.
99.4 percent of the cars in advertisements are sold as undamaged. However, it is said that it does not correspond to reality. According to car history checker data, 25 percent of cars are five years old and up to 60 percent are ten years old after an accident. And recently the percentages are said to be increasing. Repeated accidents are no exception. “You can really earn up to hundreds of thousands of crowns on these cars,” Minksová pointed out.
A speedometer turned down by 100,000 kilometers can raise the price of a car by approximately 20 percent. But it can also happen that the technician at the MOT incorrectly describes the state of the speedometer, and the error is then written into the car’s history, even if no one has turned it on. Car owners themselves should therefore monitor the data.
kdu, TN.cz
2023-11-05 19:59:00
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