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> shouldn't some responsibility lie with the previous owner? If the secondhand purchase was a general person-to-person sale, sure. If buying secondhand from a
by TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
> shouldn't some responsibility lie with the previous owner?
If the secondhand purchase was a general person-to-person sale, sure.
If buying secondhand from a dealer, or the manufacturer, I'd be expecting some sort of refurbishment. At the minimum a proper detailed cleaned, full service, and software factory reset plus latest software upgrades at the relevant price-point.
- dustindiamond 8y agoOther car manufacturers call it ‘certified pre-owned’, or CPO.
- chiph 8y agoThe thoroughness of a CPO inspection/refurbishment can vary from "We did all 200 items the manufacturer specifies" to "We washed it". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f037K2Fr2FU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f037K2Fr2FU
- misterdoubt 8y agoWell, as always, a certification is only as good as its certifier.
- dustindiamond 8y agoHave anything I can read instead of sitting through 12 minutes of a talking head? If it is a true certified, the checklist (standarized by the manufacturer) will have to be signed off by a factory-certified technician, so there is a paper-trail.
- ams6110 8y agoand we all know that a car dealer would never do something like sign off the checklist without actually having done the work. /s