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Why Its Just Better To Buy A Used Car – No Recalls

  • by Anthony Kim Jr
  • May 19, 2015

Buying a secondhand vehicle has more benefits apart from the low price. Vehicles manufactured today follow a high safety and performance setup by manufacturers who use high tech equipment. The designers do their homework to ensure that a vehicle owner gets a high performance vehicle that is safe for them and other motorists. Although the auto manufacturers do their best to produce the best automobiles, mistakes and equipment malfunctions can lead to a defective car that is not noticed early enough. This is what leads to the recall of certain models.

Vehicle recall notice image source examiner.com Why Its Just Better To Buy A Used Car No Recalls

This is what you dread – a car recall, usually effected when a faulty car has been released into the market.
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What is a vehicle recall? Well, there might be a number of engineering errors that result in a defect in a certain automobile model produced from a certain plant within a specific time frame. The manufacturer will want the vehicles back for the correction of the defect. This simply means that not all vehicles from that model will be recalled because the engineering error is specific to a certain plant and production time period.

Vehicle recall meme image source brandkeys.com Why Its Just Better To Buy A Used Car No Recalls

While this is a humorous depiction, its more or less what happens
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There are methods through which consumers can report defects and when there are defects that seem to be specific to a certain model, there will be an investigation. If the investigation shows that the defect is something that jeopardizes consumer safety, then the authorities will request the manufacturer to recall that model. In cases where the manufacture does not recall the vehicles, there will be a forced recall by the authority investigating the defect.

In Africa, most drivers will not get the news regarding the recall and this might put them and other motorists in danger. However, the main reason why most vehicle owners in Africa are not affected by these recalls is because they mostly buy secondhand or used vehicles. The advantage of used car vehicles is that if there was a vehicle recall, the first owner must have handled it. Also if there were repairs to be done, then the first owner will have already dealt with this. In short, most second hand vehicles will not be affected by a vehicle recall and this puts used car owners at a safer place when compared to first time owners who have to face the safety and malfunction issues.

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Car manufacturing in progress
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No vehicle brand or model is perfect and if you have spent a great deal of time and money trying to repair different faults, you will attest to this. Though most cars will have minor and major problems in equal measures, when the underlying problem is an engineering defect affecting quality and safety, you will not want to be driving that vehicle. Most of these defects might not be so obvious but will increase safety risks and put the performance in jeopardy.

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Recalled vehicles with faults that need to be rectified
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Instead of purchasing a vehicle that you might not be sure of and spending a great amount of money in the process, why not just buy a used car that that has already passed the vehicle recall phase. You will have better value for your money because used cars do not depreciate at a bigger margin when compared with brand new vehicles. If you want a high quality used vehicle, check out BEFORWARD; a leader in used car importation and sale.

— Anthony Kim Jr

Anthony Kimani is an experienced blogger and article writer. He has been writing for flyer-online.com since its establishment, bringing industry, development and car news every week. Anthony loves Africa for its diversity of cultures and lifestyles.

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