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 Fraud from Used car dealer, tempered mileage

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mushigen
post Dec 1 2018, 08:47 AM

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QUOTE(Thrust @ Dec 1 2018, 07:43 AM)
This is another area Anthony Loke can look into to avoid customers from being scammed by meter tampering.
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Too much work involved. With our cars not required to undergo periodic inspections at Puspakom, who is going to be tasked with the job to record odo reading of each car?
Unless govt starts charging road tax based on mileage, nobody will want to do the hard work of recording mileage.
And by then, we'll have ppl offering services to periodically lower the mileage on weekly basis.

What we need now is just an avenue for the buyer to take action upon discovering of tampered mileage, with proof.
6UE5T
post Dec 1 2018, 09:02 AM

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QUOTE(Aud power @ Dec 1 2018, 07:41 AM)
Option d. Get off the ass and go change the law
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Unless you have strong connection to government or someone high in the government then that's not an option so it's just practically becomes option 1. 😂
kaichiat82
post Dec 1 2018, 08:44 PM

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joined to work as used car salesman 2 months ago, being a petrolhead and wanted to know more inside story of this industry

this become a area of interest of mine recently, as i observed the norm in this whole industry

mileage tampering just a small peanut, nothing to shout about

it is unrealistic to get top down changes from governemnt now

learn up basic of your car and basic method to inspect used car will get you further

realistically, hook up a diagnostic tool and read gearbox mileage will be best to find out mileage accurately

tcm log gearbox mileage separately, this unlikely to get tampered
kaichiat82
post Dec 1 2018, 08:50 PM

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dealer can put in new carpet, rewrap cushion, rewrap interior, rewrap steering wheel, change paddle pad, so anything interior that show sign of age can be changed, when dealer take good profit, they reinvest so your car looks anew, and tampering meter is justified by all those work done. buyer can do nothing about it

and i am just amase the actual cost of those touch up, not your normal retail price

it all depend how far we want to hide sign of wear and tear

so determine mileage is a collective inspection of all aspects of a used car

looking at mileage meter is really, not helping you to get good condition car

it will only mislead you

This post has been edited by kaichiat82: Dec 1 2018, 08:52 PM
mojo1ne
post Dec 2 2018, 07:54 AM

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QUOTE(Kelvin5717 @ Aug 25 2013, 11:05 PM)
How do you check by the way  shocking.gif

Post their shop name here so everyone would be aware of this con shop ?  blink.gif
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It'll take a long while to type out 90% of used car dealers in malaysia. sweat.gif

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