Cazoo cars , "carefully reconditioned"

[Ubique]

All dealers are the same, they claim muli point inspections etc etc but when I buy I expect to find out why the previous owner traded it in (or sold it) within the first couple of weeks then it goes back to get fixed.... my last four cars have been like that......

Used car multi-point inspections are mandated by the manufacturer, that is the only way you can get a '<whatever brand> approved used car' sticker on it. Some dealers can sell non-brand used, they are the ones to stay away from. Due to the shortage of new vehicles, used vehicles have kept the turnover of a lot of dealers going, as a consequence, they're retailing older cars (over five years) that previously would have gone to auction, consequently, there will be more failures in the used car warranty period as the average age of the vehicles increases.
The other problem is people buying older 'performance' cars, expecting 'like new' standards, we had one that bought some AMG thing, ten years old with over 110k on it and brought it back because it was over 60Nm down on spec. (yes, he'd put it on a dyno....). The sales manager bought it back straight away, better to do that and sell it to someone less 'idealistic' than spend time arguing with a wannabe boy racer.

 

[Parm]

I have no experience of the firm in question, but it appears to be a fairly liberal interpretation of reconditioned.

I worked on a project about 30 years ago - I designed and built a car processing centre for a manufacturer with inspection bays you needed sunglasses to walk through (and staffed by a third party to ensure impartiality of what was and was not acceptable in a used car), a twin-track conveyor-fed car wash, 20 bay mechanical workshop, and a paint shop with 18 spraybooths (14 of them were linked in two rows with rails so you could push the cars from prep to polish on dollies), it turned out very well prepared cars for the used market but I wouldn’t claim they were reconditioned; but that brings us back to what does reconditioned actually mean.

Most of us on here have a modicum of knowledge and interest in cars so this way of buying a car wouldn’t be for us, but I understand the appeal to the masses - my eldest son would do this in the blink of an eye, youngest will only buy his from someone he knows.

True. Boss doesn’t know anything about cars. But for him it was a good way of buying a nearly new car. He’s very happy

Also he’s a fastidious bar steward with awesome attention to detail. He wouldn’t take have parted with folding stuff if he didn’t think it was right

 

[brightspark]

Ok so cazoo advert on tv , basically buy a used car online get it delivered etc ...... (I mean who actually wants to drive it first !?)
Soo how can they claim every car is reconditioned (sorry carefully reconditioned )

To me a reconditioned engine for example ,would be rebuilt to as new condition .
I mean come on do they strip the gearbox ,air conditioning compressor etc etc .......

Maybe there idea of reconditioned is a steam clean and change the oil ?

Discuss

might be like the odd bit of stuff on here reconditioned get the rust of and a coat of paint i noticed that add the other week carefully reconditioned they might give it a valet change anything looking a bit iffy give it a test cert and sevice maybee and thats it

 

[Domdom]

Do some research on the actual owners of companies like WBAC, cazoo, BCA auctions, etc. You might draw the same conclusions I did, that a huge merry go round is being created by one bunch of bored lawyers who have too much money.