![]() ![]() She just wishes she knew the differences between a visual inspection and a comprehensive vehicle assessment. ![]() Zsombor says iNeedaPPi has been responsive to her situation and has presented some options for her son to consider. "And this situation is particularly unfortunate where there was some rust deep underneath where we weren't able to see it," he added. O'Reilley adds that his business doesn't do "full mechanical inspections," but inspectors do a test drive and visual once-over to give customers a better idea of the car's condition. "We're just presenting the condition to them." "We aren't really telling people this is a good buy or not a good buy," said Joe O'Reilley, the company's founder. Zsombor used iNeedaPPi, a national company that says it offers quick and inexpensive pre-purchase inspections backed by its "internal review process." Some of the 'deep rust' underneath a car that an Edmonton woman bought after having a visual inspection completed (CTV News Edmonton/Alison MacKinnon). "That's like a big red flag, stop right now." "We would call the purchaser and said this car ain't worth purchasing," he added. We would have stopped at this point," Stewart said as he pointed to the rust affecting the structure of the car. "We would've actually started that inspection. Had Stewart or one of his mechanics done the inspection, he says they would've stopped the buyer in their tracks. Well, this is a little more than moderate when you can put your hand right through the body of the car." "The report that the purchaser got doesn't say bad rust, it says moderate. He was just sick about the state of the vehicle."īruce Stewart showed CTV News Edmonton the extensive rust damage, including "gaping holes" and crumbling bodywork along the Mazda's support structure. "They weren't even able to put it up on a hoist because the right-side panel had just started to disintegrate," Zsombor said. Almost immediately, they got a call from one of Stewart's mechanics. They brought it to Bruce Stewart's Auto Repair Centre. ![]() Her son bought the car, but after a few weeks of driving, he noticed something wasn't right. There were some things to be expected, some mechanical things that we thought, for sure, we would bring it in and get them taken care of." It had a rating of great, 76 out of 100," she said. "I don't know anything about vehicles, so we got the report back. She thought it would be a convenient service that would help provide the last piece of feedback before making the choice to buy the car. Zsombor found a mobile inspection company online that contacts the seller and meets them to do a test drive and visual inspection. "We know that because it was an older vehicle, there was probably going to be a few things that had to be tweaked." "Everything seemed okay, so we went out there and took it for a test drive," Zsombor recalled. She thought they had done their due diligence by checking the car for any liens and viewing its history. " was super responsive," Zsombor told CTV News Edmonton. He found a private seller offering a 2009 Mazda 3 on Facebook Marketplace. Gian Zsombor's 18-year-old son saved money for years to buy his first car. An Edmonton woman hopes others can learn from her experience after she bought a used car that turned out to be a lemon. ![]()
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