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earthbound14
Joined: 23 Jan 2007
Location: seoul
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 Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 2:09 am Post subject: buying a car, verifying mileage |
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| Anyone know if you can verify the mileage of cars in Korea? At home I would take the serial number to the insurance company (we only have one gov run company) and do a check on the car to see if it had been in any accidents and what the last recorded mileage was. In Korea no one checks the odometer when you insure your car for the first time, but do they check it when you get a a regular safety check done? and can you find out when buying a used car? |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 2:12 am Post subject: Re: buying a car, verifying mileage |
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| earthbound14 wrote: |
| Anyone know if you can verify the mileage of cars in Korea? At home I would take the serial number to the insurance company (we only have one gov run company) and do a check on the car to see if it had been in any accidents and what the last recorded mileage was. In Korea no one checks the odometer when you insure your car for the first time, but do they check it when you get a a regular safety check done? and can you find out when buying a used car? |
NOPE.
Consumer protection here amounts to caveat emptor. |
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TheChickenLover
Joined: 17 Dec 2007
Location: The Chicken Coop
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 3:39 am Post subject: |
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Buy new...problem solved & 100% under warranty for a few years.
Hard to beat that peace of mind.
Chicken |
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tommy77
Joined: 26 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 5:07 am Post subject: |
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It's not easy. I bought a car last month and was told it had done xxx kms.
The next day I realized the'mileometer' was stuck on xxx kms and wasn't working. |
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earthbound14
Joined: 23 Jan 2007
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 6:37 am Post subject: |
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| tommy77 wrote: |
It's not easy. I bought a car last month and was told it had done xxx kms.
The next day I realized the'mileometer' was stuck on xxx kms and wasn't working. |
I saw one being sold (a 99) with 0 km's on it....the idiot thought it would look better if he just rolled it all the way back. |
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earthbound14
Joined: 23 Jan 2007
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 6:43 am Post subject: |
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| TheChickenLover wrote: |
Buy new...problem solved & 100% under warranty for a few years.
Hard to beat that peace of mind.
Chicken |
true, but I don't intend on staying too damn long and I hate the huge amount of depreciation on new cars.
My current ride, a 93 Kia Pride, cost less to buy than what most cars depreciate in one year. It has over 200,000 on it and clearly never rolled back. This time I'd like to buy a car in the low 100,000's but I'd like to know it actually is what I'm paying for, instead of another high mileage car with nice new paint. |
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earthbound14
Joined: 23 Jan 2007
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 6:43 am Post subject: Re: buying a car, verifying mileage |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
| earthbound14 wrote: |
| Anyone know if you can verify the mileage of cars in Korea? At home I would take the serial number to the insurance company (we only have one gov run company) and do a check on the car to see if it had been in any accidents and what the last recorded mileage was. In Korea no one checks the odometer when you insure your car for the first time, but do they check it when you get a a regular safety check done? and can you find out when buying a used car? |
NOPE.
Consumer protection here amounts to caveat emptor. |
kinda what I thought..... |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 11:21 am Post subject: |
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| A friend used to work for a used car dealership in Korea and he advised me to check for scrape marks around the screws in the front panel (near the odometer). Apparently, in order to reset the odometer, they'd have to take the panel off. |
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earthbound14
Joined: 23 Jan 2007
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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| peppermint wrote: |
| A friend used to work for a used car dealership in Korea and he advised me to check for scrape marks around the screws in the front panel (near the odometer). Apparently, in order to reset the odometer, they'd have to take the panel off. |
that's a good idea!!! Thanks |
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