Descriptions of bodywork condition
Discussion
When sellers describe the condition of the vehicle they have for sale, they tend to use: mint/showroom, excellent, vgc, good, fair/average, poor etc. to give an indication.
Does anyone on here know of any attempt to set out what each of these terms should mean - perhaps in Glass's guide or another traders' publication?
Personally, I'd expect mint or showroom to mean just that, absolutely perfect, excellent would allow for some minor stone chipping sensitively touched in and a good but not perfect lacquer condition, vgc might have some light kerbing to alloys and trace lacquer scratching or a PDR-able parking ding or two, good maybe one small but touched-in scuff, fair/average (here it starts to vary with age!) would have some obvious damage, maybe some corrosion, and so on.
What do you guys think?
And is there any sort of standard anywhere? If a seller claims vgc, is it just down to opinion? Or can they actually be held to a standard to justify that contractual description?
Tol
Does anyone on here know of any attempt to set out what each of these terms should mean - perhaps in Glass's guide or another traders' publication?
Personally, I'd expect mint or showroom to mean just that, absolutely perfect, excellent would allow for some minor stone chipping sensitively touched in and a good but not perfect lacquer condition, vgc might have some light kerbing to alloys and trace lacquer scratching or a PDR-able parking ding or two, good maybe one small but touched-in scuff, fair/average (here it starts to vary with age!) would have some obvious damage, maybe some corrosion, and so on.
What do you guys think?
And is there any sort of standard anywhere? If a seller claims vgc, is it just down to opinion? Or can they actually be held to a standard to justify that contractual description?
Tol
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