WATCH: Dodgy car deals laid bare with View 4 You
“I swear on my mother’s life that this car has only had one owner – a little old lady who used to drive it to church on Sundays…” You’ll hear that – or a version of it – in many a second-hand car showroom in South Africa these days… although there are a few wrinkles to those old used-car salespeople’s lies.“As part of our inspection, we run a diagnostic check which tells us whether there is anything currently wrong with the car and whether there are any fault codes stored in the system about previous problems.”” Even worse, some owners fit special electronic devices that record only a fraction of the mileage, letting them dump a well-used car as if it were barely out of the box.
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