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Caution buying used vans
Posted: Sat May 05, 2018 12:10 pm
by Texas
I've only just heard about this, but, some of you will already know that it happens
A courier does over 550,000kms in his van.
For $280 he gets a used 230,000kms dashbord installed.
SO - only buy a van with a complete logbook
Cheers Gra
Re: Caution buying used vans
Posted: Sat May 05, 2018 1:06 pm
by bowl
Guess same for work utes
Re: Caution buying used vans
Posted: Sat May 05, 2018 3:01 pm
by KeenAds
This applies to any second hand car really. It pays to get a car history check if you are not confident and know what to look for. For digital odometers there is software available that can reprogram the reading so be careful with that also.
Re: Caution buying used vans
Posted: Sat May 05, 2018 4:47 pm
by Bayrock
Crooks, crooks everywhere
Re: Caution buying used vans
Posted: Sat May 05, 2018 4:54 pm
by smile0784
Applies to all used cars.
Thats why the log books are good to look at
Re: Caution buying used vans
Posted: Sat May 05, 2018 5:16 pm
by dazz999
Texas wrote:I've only just heard about this, but, some of you will already know that it happens
A courier does over 550,000kms in his van.
For $280 he gets a used 230,000kms dashbord installed.
SO - only buy a van with a complete logbook
Cheers Gra
yep but why buy a van with that many kms just looking for trouble as with log book make sure everything sort of matches up km between services and time between services
Re: Caution buying used vans
Posted: Sat May 05, 2018 5:53 pm
by Lightningx
Thanks for the heads up.
Cheers :thumbsup:
Re: Caution buying used vans
Posted: Sat May 05, 2018 11:37 pm
by AE092
Our work cars are turned over three years, fully serviced and maintained albeit slightly high k's (approx. 60-70k / year). In saying that, the utes don't miss a beat and the paint is fresh as theyre almost entirely vinyl wrapped.