Tampered ODO readings
By mamamia2411 •
Recently, one of my friends brought a car from a broker, there was a lot promises. The attractive part was less Kms. After one month of use, he took the car to the main service centre for general service. Then came to know that, the ODO reading was tampered and reduced to 100'000 Kms lesser than its original reading.
Can take any legal actions against this guy?? Have read about this guy a couple of times on QL. I think its a fraudulent and illegal act in Qatar. Is it true? There was some major issues on the car and he spend already on it. When it came to know, he is very sad and disappointed. Can he revert this deal??
at first, there is no proof whether the person is a broker or the owner. then, its an online community. Anyone can delete/ cancel the existing post. Or even the account too.
If you have any plan to buy that vehicle, just take the vehicle to the company service centre. They may charge you a few riyals more for checkup. But, you will get 200% accurate details of the vehicle from the day 1 rather than the offering computer checking services.
Its not a mandatory to do the service at the company service centre. Its completely upto you.
Best of luck.
JUST NOW, BEFORE I SAW THIS POST, I SAW AN ADVT ABT A CAR - FOR SALE,
THERE IS ALSO A PREVIOUS SALE ADVT ABOUT THE SAME CAR;
BUT NOW THE KMS GIVEN IS ALMOST HALF OF THE PREVIOUS POST;
IF ITS THE SAME CAR, IS THE ODO TAMPERED??
IS THE POST ON INTERNET A PROOF??
COMMENT PLZ!!
You are true. Qatar is being changing... there is a lot greedy people who only thinks how to grab money from the innocents pocket. Try visit the souq, car wash, super markets,.. you can feel it everywhere..!! Same product - different price tags. Only difference is, the price varies depends the customer.
The guy who claimed it is his car. By taking his words.." before expiring my ID, I transferred this to my sisters name!!"
So there is no other entry claiming as the 'OWNER' of the car. He claim himself its his car and he is the owner!! I need to check with my friend - might be, he has the advert by the owner of the car. I'm sure he has put the KM as well stating its less covered vehicle to sell OFF easily.
I commiserate with you and I really hope the cheat gets the punishment he deserves. I am interested to know the full outcome if ever this will be lodged in a formal complaint. So many cheats here: from dept. stores to corner stores.
who told u it was him who altered the odo?
he's a broker! he tells u it's not me, and give u the number of the owner. the owner will tell u no it's not me...
legally it's a dead end. it is illegal to tamper with the odo, but u need to proove who did it first. even then ur at fault for not checking the car properly.
Yes he has the proof... At the service centre, the vehicle has already came for service at an ODO reading of 100,000Kms above the current readings.
i.e., for example, the current reading is 80'000 Kms. But the company service centre system says it already came for service at 1,64,000Kms. How come??
I think, Car Max/ Early bird/ German do not have the facility to check this problem!!
Can he proceed with the legal issues with this cheat?? It's less than 3000Kms he run the vehicle after the deal. And he already put almost 3000Qrs for service unknowingly its a very used car!!!
Everything works on proof. To take legal action, you need to have proof and if you do, then go and register a case. Putting such kind of ads in websites and fooling around with public is an offense.