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Used car dealer abandons appeal over sale of insurance write-offs


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Some cars damaged in car crashes can be repaired, reregistered and resold, but motor dealers must tell buyers the true history of what they are buying.
A legal challenge to the duty of used car dealers to tell potential buyers when a car is a former insurance write-off has been abandoned.
In October​, Taieri Motor Court​ in Dunedin was ordered to pay a buyer $5000​ by the Motor Vehicle Disputes Tribunal after failing to tell buyer Mark Thorn​ that a car it sold him had previously been written off for insurance purposes, and then repaired and re-registered.
Tribunal adjudicator Jason McHerron​ said a reasonable buyer would expect to be told if a car was an insurance write-off, and that by failing to do tell Thorn, the company had breached the Fair Trading Act​. ....

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