dealer new cars in the sun...

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by aaronng

It's better than in the US. Cars are delivered by train there and sometimes accidents do happen and the dealer gets panel beaters to fix it up before being sold as new cars to unsuspecting buyers. At least one Acura owner has experienced that with their TSX.

---

Aaronng, do you have a link to this story?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by aaronng

It's better than in the US. Cars are delivered by train there and sometimes accidents do happen and the dealer gets panel beaters to fix it up before being sold as new cars to unsuspecting buyers. At least one Acura owner has experienced that with their TSX.

---

If you live in a place where cars have to be delivered by ship, train or truck, then quite a few get damaged. In Darwin, the local crash repairers make their bread and butter from repairing "new" cars that have been delivered to dealers with transport damage. One of my tenants is a crash repairer and he does "new" Fords and Toyotas. When sold to the public, no mention is made of the repairs.

I wonder if withholding this information is a lawful practice?

why do people care it's under the sun for xx amount of days anyway? It gets a full detail with it before you pick it up anyways

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Zdster

Aaronng, do you have a link to this story?

---

tsx.acurazine.com. Got to search.

It's from there. There was a freight train that derailed and had TSXs on board. Similar to the ship carrying Mazda3s that sunk. In this case, Acura repaired those TSXs and sold them as new cars.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by aaronng

No, it is a protective plastic film that is PEELED off by hand.

---

So exactly when is this plastic filmed applied? Would the car be immaculately clean when the film is applied?

Also, if a car was sitting out in a car yard, covered in this plastic film, during the massive storms Melbourne had on March 7th this year, is it possile that you won't see minor hail damage until the plastic film was removed?

i'm 100% unsurprised by this - it's only a Honda after all...

Sometimes when you buy new cars, you can also tell that things aren't right - i reckon mine may have had it's bumper damaged (u can see repairs)

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p...s/IMG_2596.jpg

The protective plastic is really thin so if hail damage were present you would be a dumb **** to not realize it and it does not cover all of the panels, from memory they only cover a majority and leave bits and pieces so bonnet, boot and roof would be covered, can't remember doors or pillars