In the second-hand car market, which has seen movements on the buying-selling side in recent months, users are new types. Frauds may be waiting.
With the approach of summer months, the interest in second-hand vehicles has increased, and remarkable news from the sector continues to come. One of the representatives of the appraisal sector, who drew attention to the fact that the frauds carried out in the buying and selling business started to increase again at the right rate. Pilot Garagewarns consumers against possible damage to second-hand vehicles. The brand, which gave remarkable information about a 2019 model car, which was appraised in Istanbul Esenyurt in the past days, pointed out that the owner of the vehicle suffered an average of 60 thousand TL loss due to the replacement of 4 doors with “exit” doors. Pilot Garage General Coordinator Cihan Emre made an assessment on the subject and made a series of suggestions to those who will buy second-hand cars.
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Emphasizing that a significant portion of the grievances experienced by consumers while purchasing second-hand cars are caused by “acquaintances”, Emre said, “While buying a vehicle in our country, our tendency to buy by trusting spouses, friends, relatives, acquaintances, the cars around us and their owners, unfortunately, brings with it an illusion as there are too many fraud cases in the market. Unfortunately, many of our citizens buy the car from a friend without a comprehensive check-up and appraisal. Our advice is to have the car you buy thoroughly checked at a TSE certified corporate appraisal point of your choice.” he said.
Cihan Emre, who commented on the vehicle with a spare part; “Our technical team detected paint on the middle pillars and chassis of the vehicle, whose body appears to be unpainted when looked at in the paint measurement, although there is no damage record, it was understood that the 4 doors were installed as a product from an accident vehicle. This vehicle, which can be sold for 280-290 thousand TL, was purchased for 355 thousand TL. Even if there is no history of damage, only paint control is not enough, removal-installation and detection of paints in interior parts protect consumers from a possible loss of more than 100 thousand TL. The vehicle you bought may be damaged, it may be changed, it may be paint, it may be a spare part. The important thing here is whether you pay more than the original value of the car, in this case, the wrong and incomplete statement of the person selling the car, rather than the spare part, puts the consumer in harm’s way. All four doors of the car, which was purchased as original, were pulled from traffic in the past, were scrapped, and were fitted to this vehicle from four different same-colored vehicles.” said.