I was reminded of a car buying scam today. A potential buyer comes to look over your pride and joy and asks for a test drive. He leaves as collateral a nice car and you are shown his valid drivers license. He takes the car out and once out of sight he pours a small bottle of used engine oil into the Cooling system.
After telling you he is impressed and interested you haggle the price. He then wants one last look over the car to be sure. Part of this new inspection he remove the top of the Radiator reservoir and discovers oil..... This can mean only one thing, a blown head gasket and thousands in repair bills. Of course there is now an opportunity for him to knock thousands off your pride and joy.
This is an old trick used mainly by East Europeans in the Western part of Europe and the UK. Just today one of the people carrying out this scam was recorded on CCTV adding the oil.
Will it happen here? Has it happened here? Who knows. But when sales like this happen unless you know whats happened you might just chalk it up to bad luck. The thief in the mean time cleans up the mess and sells the car on at your loss.
Check out this article. This is one of those things that keeps coming up.
After telling you he is impressed and interested you haggle the price. He then wants one last look over the car to be sure. Part of this new inspection he remove the top of the Radiator reservoir and discovers oil..... This can mean only one thing, a blown head gasket and thousands in repair bills. Of course there is now an opportunity for him to knock thousands off your pride and joy.
This is an old trick used mainly by East Europeans in the Western part of Europe and the UK. Just today one of the people carrying out this scam was recorded on CCTV adding the oil.
Will it happen here? Has it happened here? Who knows. But when sales like this happen unless you know whats happened you might just chalk it up to bad luck. The thief in the mean time cleans up the mess and sells the car on at your loss.
Check out this article. This is one of those things that keeps coming up.