Importing Damaged US Cars
Discussion
Do Jap "grey import" cars' previous histories follow them? Rhetorical, but arguably no.
I daresay there are 'pay' sites for checking US cars' previous histories, but making the usual checks will show nothing? V5C will say "declared previously registered elsewhere" [or similar]; that is all, for the great unwashed?
Regards your thread title, where are you going to get the parts/spares to fix them?
I daresay there are 'pay' sites for checking US cars' previous histories, but making the usual checks will show nothing? V5C will say "declared previously registered elsewhere" [or similar]; that is all, for the great unwashed?
Regards your thread title, where are you going to get the parts/spares to fix them?
I agree that jap stuff is very hard to trace from here but americaland is an english speaking country, that would make it a much easier task to trace vehicles historys.
But no, a normal vehicle check that you would do here wouldnt show anything that happened on the other side of the pond.
But no, a normal vehicle check that you would do here wouldnt show anything that happened on the other side of the pond.
It's easy to catch, run a Carfax report or an autocheck.
Carfax is what consumers use, but Autocheck catches a lot more, like if the car was ever sold with a frame/unibody announcement at auction.
It's been my experience, as someone in the trade here in the USA, that a LOT of "bad" stuff ends up overseas, it's almost a joke. I remember coming across a list of all cars that were bought back under the lemon law in New Jersey in 2011... a Rolls Ghost was on there along with a number of other very pricey cars, I ran carfaxes on them and most had been exported.
Carfax is what consumers use, but Autocheck catches a lot more, like if the car was ever sold with a frame/unibody announcement at auction.
It's been my experience, as someone in the trade here in the USA, that a LOT of "bad" stuff ends up overseas, it's almost a joke. I remember coming across a list of all cars that were bought back under the lemon law in New Jersey in 2011... a Rolls Ghost was on there along with a number of other very pricey cars, I ran carfaxes on them and most had been exported.
I very nearly got caught with that here in Dubai.
Went to look at a 2005 Dodge Viper, drove fine, just a slight hint of cherry peel on the paint on the rear quarter.
I knew the car was a US inmport (they all are here, Vipers were never officially sold here) so thought I'd check the Vin before buying.
Didn't even need carfax.... popped the vin into google and the first thing that popped up was the salvage auction listing from a few months previously....car had been written off with extensive flood damage as well as a rather bent rear end.
I walked away and the car's still for sale now more than a year later.
Went to look at a 2005 Dodge Viper, drove fine, just a slight hint of cherry peel on the paint on the rear quarter.
I knew the car was a US inmport (they all are here, Vipers were never officially sold here) so thought I'd check the Vin before buying.
Didn't even need carfax.... popped the vin into google and the first thing that popped up was the salvage auction listing from a few months previously....car had been written off with extensive flood damage as well as a rather bent rear end.
I walked away and the car's still for sale now more than a year later.
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