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Many frauds are recorded in the used vehicle market. The government decided to set up a site that would limit the risks for buyers.
The used car market sometimes has a few gloomy undersides. Indeed, half of the transactions involve fraud. And in order to avoid the various traps, the Ministry of the Interior has put online a site, Histovec, which allows to know the history of a vehicle. A tool that would have liked to benefit this couple, whose bought second-hand car has been sleeping in a shed for two years. And for good reason, it is unusable.
“The body alignments were not good. We are not professionals, we cannot see it directly“, explains Cyril Lebeury. Thus, the couple realizes too late that the odometer has been blocked, and that the vehicle has even been damaged. They therefore have the car checked, and the experts’ opinion is categorical: it is Declared wreck The vehicle could not be sold as is The couple filed a complaint, and pending judgment, legal costs have already cost 15,000 euros.