Hello, hello everyone ~ the old driver of the car inspector has met with you again, I am a used car inspector Dongzi. I used to be an auto mechanic, I thought I was still excellent, helpless in the car repair industry for 7 or 8 years has not been able to find a girlfriend, so I resolutely changed careers to the car inspector, hoping to get better. Recently, Dongzi I tested a 2019 Volkswagen Touareg, the seller clearly told that it is a full-loss car that has been soaked in water, but the price is very cheap, do you think you can buy such a car?
This Volkswagen Touareg customer big brother himself checked the record, is indeed a soaked water total loss car, the seller is the current owner himself also said this situation, the current electrical module has been replaced, so the table is only more than two thousand kilometers, the real car is about 40,000 kilometers. The reason why the customer's big brother wants to buy, mainly because it is cheap, and the biggest problem with the water soaking car is the electrical appliances, since all the changes, the harm is much smaller. However, for the sake of safety, he still asked us to help test it and see what the situation of the car was. So, let's take a look at the offer of the vehicle.
Vehicle Year: 2019 Volkswagen Touareg 3.0T Ruizhi Edition
Factory date: April 2019
Date of registration: September 2019
Meter mileage: 2500 km
New car guide price: 819,800
Seller quote: 360,000
It can be seen that as Volkswagen's current imported flagship model, and Audi Q7, Porsche Cayenne, Bentley Bentayga with the same platform to build, product strength and cost performance that is not said. This 3.0T top-equipped Touareg, the landing price of the year was in the early 800,000 years, and now it has been open for more than two years, the normal market price is close to 600,000, and this car is really very moving as long as 360,000, which is nearly 500,000 cheaper than the new car. However, in view of the fact that it is a total loss car that has been soaked in water, it will not be worth buying until I have tested it.
Gossip less, directly start working, although the main thing is to detect the problem of soaking water, but we can not be less of the process, in case there are other problems? First of all, I checked that there was a scratch on the front bar that had hurt the paint to the end, but there was no dust left by the paint after the inspection, and there were no obvious flaws in other places, which was not bad.
The following take out the equipment to check the paint surface of the vehicle, take the paint surface of the roof as a reference value, after all, the roof is the most vulnerable place to damage.
You can see that the front cover paint is normal; the front windshield has not been replaced, but the owner's random parking notice is also difficult to tear, tear off the glue, wipe for half a day to see the date.
Then Dongzi I checked the paint surface of the whole car, and found that it was basically the original car paint, only the thickness of the paint surface of the right front door was about 200, which was repaired by spray paint, but there was no sheet metal. Looking at it as a whole, you can score 95 points, which is still very good. Let's take a look at the cabin.
Open the cabin to see this 3.0T turbocharged engine, the maximum horsepower 340, the maximum torque of 450 N· m, matching the 8AT gearbox, 100 km/h acceleration of 5.9 seconds. This powertrain is exactly the same as the new car's 3.0T Touareg, one less 48V motor than the 3.0T Audi Q7, but this power has killed most cars in seconds, and it is a word to drive: cool. And because it is a blister car, you can see that the interior of the cabin has been cleaned up, it looks very good, and I will look at the details immediately.
First of all, I checked that the two headlights are produced in 2020, which is later than the time when the vehicle is completely shipped out of the factory, so it is obviously replaced, but the front bumper and the front cover look or the original paint, is it because of the reason of soaking water?
Subsequently, it was checked that there were no disassembly marks on the fixing screws of the water tank frame; the anti-collision beam screws and the front longitudinal beam were not moved, which could further rule out that there was a major accident at the front of the car. However, the mud and sand traces that have been blistered on it are still very obvious, and it is really difficult to repair the blister car.
The production date of the radiator fan is the same as the vehicle factory date, it seems that the two headlights are replaced because of the soaking water, the light of these two headlights is not cheap, it can be seen that repairing this Volkswagen Touareg is a bloody cost.
Then check the engine part below, you can see that the engine valve compartment cover screws have not been removed traces, but the sponge covering the top has a lot of oil, two fingers can drip down the kind, this layer of mimeograph is also very obvious, according to the theory, the oil leakage will not reach this level. With the attitude of trying it out, I asked the owner of the car, and the owner said that he threw the sponge on the ground to get oil when repairing the car. I said, how can this year's Touareg leak like this, that makes sense.
The other accessory screws of the engine also have no disassembly marks, indicating that there is no hoisting decomposition and maintenance, so it can be basically ruled out that the engine has entered the water, which is a fortunate thing in misfortune.
Check the brake oil and antifreeze below, you can see that they have been replaced, and the most basic thing for the car that has soaked in water is to replace the whole car oil and water, otherwise there is a great safety hazard. Next, check the interior of the car to see what is going on after the interior of the total damage soaking car is repaired.
Open the door, you can see that the interior design of this Volkswagen Touareg has used volkswagen's latest design language, and it looks much better than the previous style of technology and luxury. At present, as if looking at the past, people who do not know will certainly not be able to see that it is soaked in water, and come to see the details.
Open the dashboard side cover, you can see the obvious blister marks, since it is set total loss, it is also normal to flood the dashboard.
And there is still mud and sand in the gap of the air conditioner outlet, so in general, the blister car is impossible to repair perfectly.
Then Dongzi I dismantled the A-pillar trim and found that there was no trace of blisters in this position, so it can now be determined that the water level at that time only reached the dashboard and did not flood to the top.
Next put the car on fire, you can see that there are a lot of fault lights are on, and I tried the function, found that many functions can not be used: the air conditioner is useless, only the air can not be cooled; seat massage can not be used; the bottom rise can not be used; the electric tailgate can not be used... At this time, the owner explained on the side: We are here in a small county, and there is no place to match after the module is changed, so the fault light is lit, and some functions cannot be used. It is equivalent to saying that only the most basic driving function of the vehicle is retained, the air conditioner is not available, and I do not know how the owner of the car has survived in these months. Okay, let's go and look at the chassis.
Checking the engine again from the chassis, it can be seen that there are no disassembly marks in the engine oil pan; there are no removal marks on the screws at the engine gearbox connection, which further indicates that the engine gearbox has not been decomposed and repaired.
Subsequently, it was checked that there were no disassembly marks on the Yuanbaoliang screws; however, there were disassembly marks in the oil pan of the transmission, and there were also oil stains, but it should also be caused by the oil change of the soaking water truck, not a quality problem.
Next, the rear longitudinal beam and the anti-collision beam were inspected, and no problems were found, which can rule out the suspicion of a major accident at the rear of the vehicle.
At this time, the backstage sister sent the accident record of the car, and found that it was indeed showing soaking water, and the loss was more than 600,000! This insurance company has lost a lot of money, and now even if it is repaired at a large price, the residual value is not high.
Then when I checked the maintenance record, I also found a problem, this car has driven more than 80,000 kilometers last year, it seems that the owner still has reservations.
And when I read the OBD data, I found that the fault code of this car is very, very much, although I know that after the general blister car is repaired, there will be a fault code, but the fault code of this car is also too much, which is the most I have seen a car.
You can take a look at all kinds of fault codes, this is not all checked out, too much, I will not all put out. Maybe this is related to the fact that this Touareg is the top match, because the top model has a lot of electronic systems, and there will definitely be a fault code after soaking in water. And the current owner also said that he has no place to match after changing the module here, and these fault codes will definitely not be able to clear. But now there is really no way to determine whether it is not fixed or the reason for the module matching.
Then I will detect the situation one by five and ten told the customer big brother, he said to consider it, originally thought that the water car repaired and sold, the result is that there are now so many faults, although the owner said to go to the 4S shop to match it, but he did not dare to block ah, if there is still a fault after the match, what to do? At this time, I suggested to the customer's big brother: If you really want to buy, you can negotiate with the seller to drive the car to the 4S store to match, clear the fault code, if the car is no problem after the match, buy, the cost problem in the middle can be discussed who is out; if there is still a problem with the car after the match, it will certainly not be considered. The customer's big brother said that this method is good, so he went to discuss with the seller.
You can see the same Volkswagen Touareg, the offer on the Internet is basically around 600,000, and the price of this car of 360,000 today is indeed very tempting. But after all, it is a total loss of blister car, even after the high price is repaired, there may still be unpredictable dark diseases, so if ordinary people want to buy this kind of car, personal advice is still cautious and cautious, cheap is not easy to pick up!
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