Have you been caught with car rebirthing?
Monday, August 13th, 2007According to a recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald ‘Back from the Dead’ (13/07/2007) Sydney is the capital of a booming criminal trade in cars that have been rebirthed, where a write-off can be repaired with parts from a stolen car then sold privately with a legitimate compliance label.
The gut wrenching reality is if you’re caught this way, you have no legal comeback, even though you may have performed all the necessary pre-purchase checks. Since the introduction of the CarWise service in April, NRMA has found that 1 in 4 vehicles have had some kind of outstanding issue that could cost a motorist thousands of dollars.
If there are simple ways manufacturers can help with this problem then why aren’t they?
For less than $2 a vehicle we could have high security, self-voiding labels, instead of the current aluminium ones.
Why isn’t data dot security compulsory on all new cars and why can’t the re-registration of written-off vehicles be banned?
If the government is really serious about stamping out this blight, they need to use some muscle and insist that car manufacturers comply.
Have you been caught with car rebirthing? What happened and what was the final outcome?