According to online vehicle purchasing company SellCar, almost 1 in 5 owners have admitted to lying in order to shift the vehicle.
Some of the lies that have been told by those wanting a quick sale include those about the brakes to the tyres to the mileage and even the car history, with 45% of those admitting they just wanted to get the sell.
It seems the older generation are more trustworthy than those who have just passed their test, with 42% of 18-24 year olds admitting to lying about the quality of a car when selling compared to just 10% of those over 55 years.
But it’s not just the sellers we have to be careful of. Research from SellCar, one of the longest established online vehicle purchasing companies in the UK, of 2,000 motorists who have bought and sold a car show that it’s the buyers too as just over a quarter (28%) have bought a second hand car without even test driving it.
The research highlighted that, shockingly, only 18% trust a car salesman when buying or selling a car, with 45% preferring to go through a friend, where possible. In addition, 35% would meet a prospective buyer at somewhere other than their house, with 17% admitting that if something went wrong with the car they didn’t want them to know where they lived.