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The revolving door of dangerous cars in Israel
In a letter to the new Minister of Transportation, the Garage Association and the Appraisers' Association again ask to close the loophole that returns dangerous cars sold to innocent buyers to the road.
"Regulatory discounts for capitalists"
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Keenan Cohen
Thursday, 08 July 2021, 07:15 Updated: 07:28
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Maybe this time?
The issue of "loss of law" cars is once again on the doorstep of the Minister of Transportation, this time the incoming Minister Merav Michaeli.
After terms and more than ten years that this danger has not been addressed, the Garage Association and the Appraisers Association hope that the new minister will accede to their request to rectify the ongoing malfunction.
Get acquainted (gain, obtain) with present-day techniques that came from "Combined Cars", those that the state itself has inactivated to allow them to re-enter the road after being involved in serious accidents.
These cars pop up in lots, in innocent sale ads on web boards or on Facebook, stand on the street with a “for sale” sign, but some of these cars are a disaster on wheels, patchwork of unattended repair and an accident waiting to happen.
For the innocent customer who gives up a pre-purchase inspection, who is blinded by the very attractive price attached to it, or just tempted to believe the seller - the truth may be revealed too late.
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The vehicles are sawn, assembled and put on the road - a raid by the Etgar unit of the police (Photo: Police Spokesman Brigade, Etgar unit)
So, how does it work?
A car is involved in a car accident, the insurance company decides that the damage caused to it is at a rate that does not justify repairing it (up to 60 percent of the vehicle value), prefers to compensate the insured, and the car itself is sold by the insurance company to dealers.
These in turn, according to the garage association, move the cars to the territories (in violation of the law) or to unauthorized garages in Israel, where they are "repaired" in an unattended manner, sometimes using stolen parts, without repairing and calibrating airbags in case they were activated in an accident.
After this treatment the car returns to the market, and in the absence of any registration or documentation towards it, it waits for the innocent buyer to lose his money at best, or find himself involved in an accident at worst.
If they return to the road, you will have no way of knowing about their history (Photo: Rescue Union)
For more than a decade, unions have been trying to push politicians into legislation that will put an end to this lawlessness. One of the ideas was a duty to report cars that were defined as a “loss of law,” setting up an open database online where a car buyer could check if the car he was about to buy was involved in any safety incident. In 2008, MKs Gilad Ardan and Amnon Cohen were already legislating the "Used Car Sale Law (entitlement to information and proper disclosure)", but the approved wording is completely perforated and lacks the two important components mentioned. "The Ministry of Transportation preferred the interest of leasing companies, the Ministry of Justice opposed reasons of the seller's privacy, the Ministry of Finance and the Supervisor of Insurance also preferred the interest of insurance companies," said Ronen Levy, chairman of the Garage Association. Was done in 2011, when the Ministry of Transportation announced that a car defined as a "loss of law" would state this fact in the vehicle license, two months later,Under pressure from insurance companies - he folded this intention.
This time the ball is in her hands, Transport Minister Merav Michaeli (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Now, as mentioned, the unions are trying to recruit the Minister of Transport to promote this law again and stop the arrangement enjoyed by the insurance companies, who put a few pennies on the broken cars, win the pirate garages or those in the West Bank, the traders win and only the ordinary citizen loses.
And we thought it was the role of the state to protect him rather than the capitalists and criminals.
"If he succeeded in our struggle," write Ronen Levy of the Garage Association and Yehuda Yagan, chairman of the Automobile Industry Association, "an Israeli consumer who buys a used car will be protected - consumer and safety.
We believe that the new government has the ability to bring effective legislation and enforcement that will curb economic crime in the field of repair and trade in vehicles in Israel on the one hand and that will protect the Israeli consumer on the other hand and without burdensome budgetary costs. "
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How many of these cars are back on the road and endangering everyone?
(Photo: Keinan Cohen)
In the meantime, let’s repeat our regular recommendations: Have you come across a suspiciously cheap car that sells for 30-40 percent below the list price?
Take out very sensitive tentacles and do the following: Ask your mechanic to check and have an opinion on the car, or at least send him a review of the test institute report or talk directly with the vehicle owner (which is always good). Ask the vehicle owner, or even offer him in return Payment to take out for you the insurance history and treatments from the garage (an action that the law only allows him to do.) If he refuses or evades - he probably has a good enough reason.
Until then, in the current state of the law empty of content, we can only rely on ourselves.
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