Yzerfontein
Monday, February 27, 2006
Are new Toyotas actually second hand ?
I mentioned in a previous blog that I purchased a Toyota Yaris Spirit on Saturday, but while taking it home I realised its odometer was stuck at 9km and the speedometer didn't work! Today I drove it to the local Toyota dealership. The chap there stuck his hands deep in the engine and after a few minutes of wriggling around had reconnected what needed to be reconnected.
But this got me thinking about how easily my supposedly new Toyota could have been driven around by the Toyota dealership without any mileage on the clock - for a quick joy-ride to Melkbos, to Yzerfontein, to the 7/11 around the corner, used for a quick demo ride for another client. If it had, say 800km on the clock, a new client would naturally kick up one hell of a fuss and (rightly) argue that this was in fact a second-hand vehicle. Much easier to disconnect the odometer and show the client a low odometer reading.
But this got me thinking about how easily my supposedly new Toyota could have been driven around by the Toyota dealership without any mileage on the clock - for a quick joy-ride to Melkbos, to Yzerfontein, to the 7/11 around the corner, used for a quick demo ride for another client. If it had, say 800km on the clock, a new client would naturally kick up one hell of a fuss and (rightly) argue that this was in fact a second-hand vehicle. Much easier to disconnect the odometer and show the client a low odometer reading.
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