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Did you save on testing before buying?

It may cost you dearly

Have you seen a car you want to buy but were content to ask the brother / friend / cousin who understands or send a video on WhatsApp to the regular mechanic?

There is a situation that you are really going to regret it

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Keenan Cohen

Monday, 16 August 2021, 07:50 Updated: 08:11

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The demand for new cars, followed by the revival in the used market in the absence of public transportation and the fear of the little that works, drives people to the big trade-in lots and online sales boards, but even though it is a considerable financial expense of tens if not hundreds of thousands of shekels. Those who still have difficulty pulling out their credit card.

And on the one hand it is hard to blame them, within this large expense, which does not end with just buying the car but continues with compulsory insurance and encompasses another 400-600 shekels sometimes look like this thing that if not obligated can be given up. So they make do with the fact that the vehicle looks really well maintained, or that the seller is really cool and a good friend of the neighbor, they will even turn around in the car to feel that everything is fine or get as a Torah from Sinai the test form presented to them at the agency.

For some it may be that luck will play, for some the damage will be small, but for others this tuition of "save pennies and pay thousands" is going to be a very painful lesson.

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No matter if it is a car for NIS 10,000 or 20 times, this investment will usually be offset by the price of the car (Photo: Keinan Cohen)

"When you buy a house, you take a skeleton engineer, an appraiser, a plumbing expert and consultants who inspect the property. When a person buys a car, he has one consultant - the testing institute," says Eyal Bracha, CEO of the Techno Test group. Of a clear message and a point at the end - which of the points in his resume brought him to it? I would not have guessed that with the man behind them I would have a conversation over the bustling compound of licensing tests and buying tests of the chain at the head of which he replaced his father in a blessing.

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Want to cover their exhaust

Take it easy, I tell him, people think all these tests are eye work, get a form full of clauses and comments - but without a bottom line answer.

"Test reports that are scrolls often come from testing institutes that tend to exaggerate to cover themselves," Eyal explains. "It's not our job to write things down and cause a deal to explode."

So how can you still get people to finish a test and know what the condition of the car is?

"Every customer at the end of the test has a chapter of explanations about the test results from the examiner, with us it is an explanation that does not go less than 8 minutes - by definition, because of the same problems that exist in understanding the meanings of the test. Choose me he does not pay me, the buyer chose me gave me confidence - I serve him ".

And it does not end there, Techno Test also operates a national center where service personnel sit on the same information systems of the institutes themselves, and a customer can call and receive further explanations about the test results even at a later stage.

"Both they and the examiners undergo training and coaching of how to talk to a client, how to explain concepts and meanings to him."

Sit down and understand the meanings of each defect in the form (Photo: screenshot, screenshot)

So what exactly is the test report? Well, this form with the sections and lines actually has two critical meanings. On the basis of this data, the customer makes the decision whether to continue with the transaction or not, whether it happens on the spot or after a round of inspections of repair costs in garages or an appraiser's opinion on impairment in the case of tin damage.

"In many cases cost "The test, which costs around NIS 550, depends on the type of vehicle, pays for itself immediately with the rejects that are discovered in it and can save repair costs much higher than the payment to the institute, in most cases many thousands of shekels and sometimes the vehicle disqualification."

But the second meaning of this form is no less important - "The vehicle inspection is a clear insurance function between the inspection institute and the customer" Eyal explains what too many people just do not know, "the Ministry of Transportation (regulator - KK) defined in the vehicle inspection procedure before buying "Procedure 127, threshold of 3 months warranty for the test results, by the way at Technotest we give 6 months."

Even the most professional garage will probably not be able to overcome slight deformations in the chassis (Photo: Keinan Cohen)

I present to Eyal the image that this world has of pre-purchase testing, which is sometimes suspected of combos and "deals" between a test car and the big lots that provide them with work - and there were things never, I tell him.

Eyal is not excited, "It is unlikely that an institute will do such a thing, usually at the level of the individual examiner, because such an action will result in a lawsuit and image damage. Today it is not really profitable for the testing institute to do such things," he tells me. To employees. "We focus on the private client who pays full price (usually testing institutes that work in" contracting "will perform tests at a discounted price, and there the slope to more tests in less slippery quality - KK) and our interest is that a client will bring another client. It is important to us that clients choose us "Service and responsibility. All of these give them peace of mind and confidence to move forward in purchasing the vehicle."

Tens of thousands of tests in 15 branches and information systems that accumulate the typical failure points for each model are significant power multipliers (Photo: Keinan Cohen)

But if I have a friend like a brother, who has a garage and is an expert on these cars, why should I go to the testing institute?

"Even the senior car mechanic in the garage who 'takes a look' at the vehicle, probably does not know or is equipped with equipment to check chassis and angles, perform a review of computer systems at the practical level and in the end - the question of responsibility and behind the test results."

Here Eyal adds two more points, the first is the network's database that knows how to "paint" cars with serious defects and if these suddenly pop up elsewhere with different data - also warn about it - and it doubles power missing from private garages, professional as they may be.

When it comes to combinations between a testing institute and a garage, it is already much more decisive. "The combinations between a garage and a testing institute are dangerous, the testing institute should be independent and not an institute whose entire purpose is to bring work to the adjacent garage."

What are the implications of hitting a tin can in front of one that endangers the safety of passengers and road users?

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But in general, Bracha actually compliments the professional level in the industry: "Israel is in a relatively good place in the world in the field of pre-purchase testing. But the regulatory requirements for opening a pre-purchase testing institute are not high and this is an entrance for those who will not necessarily do it properly. The bigger big institutes, which are already investing not a few hundred thousand shekels, but millions on accessories and testing devices will not look for the marginal savings everywhere "

This is also the concept behind running their 15 testing institutes as a network and not in a franchise model," Takes responsibility and misses something, it goes up in compound interest. The perception of a penny per pound no longer works, a customer knows how to value service. And to stand behind it. "

Retrieving the car's treatment history and malfunctions indicates chronic and recurring problems (Photo: PR)

The meaning of meaning

So you went and did the test, or you got such a test form and you look at it and try to understand what it says about the car you are interested in.

In general, the test can be divided into four parts, the chassis and body test part, the mechanical assemblies, the computer assemblies and the test drive - whether or not the test institute skipped attention to each of these - it's time to choose another place. And while in the technical and computerized tests you will usually get a clear indication, the exact same clarity should be in the essential sections of the "chassis chassis" as defined in Procedure 127 of the Ministry of Transport. Here the test results are divided into three main categories - high meaning, low meaning and marginal meaning. The distinction between the various meanings is derived from its safety implications for the vehicle. For example, a car that has free hinges in the doors, with bent bumpers, with a hood and trunk that do not open properly, defects in the door and window rubbers, damaged windshields and surprisingly even damaged seat belts - all of these, even if they appear together in the car including paint repairs, Some of the outer shell are defined as having marginal significance.

A little tinsmithing and paint, not something critical (Photo: PR)

Above them are all the assemblies that lie between the outer shell and the "rectangle" formed between the front and rear wheels of the car where the width, length and height of the car are located and actually make up its "skeleton".

Hood, wing, doors, rear floor in the trunk, front and rear longitudinal beams up to the harness point of the engine and / or suspensions, front tin and more.

To all of these, even if they are defective, the definition of "low significance" will be attached when it does not refer to the cost of repairs - which is a completely separate issue, but only to the safety aspect of these repairs.

That is, damage to the wings, trunk floor and front of the car may make the car look bad - but their impact on the impact on safety is low.

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And at the top of the flaws is the high significance - that is, any damage to a vehicle that was severe enough to penetrate the same rectangle and carries a safety aspect that affects the safe use of the vehicle and its ability to protect passengers in the event of an accident if not repaired.

By the way, even if it was repaired properly (and we would take it with a very limited warranty), its safety significance may be less - but when it comes to impairment it is a significant reduction - and this is important to take into account.

Speaking of pillars and beams, as soon as there are indications of damage to them and also a score of their coloring - this is certainly a car that has been in a serious accident.

"In our identification, safety and safety deficiencies are the main 'deal breaker' as a result of a purchase inspection, followed by cases of chassis damage and then malfunctions in the gearbox engine," Eyal explains.

Testing of advanced safety systems is the next challenge for testing institutes (Photo: Manufacturer's website, Manufacturer)

Pistons for radars

But even beyond these points, the tremendous changes that the modern vehicle has undergone, also come to the test institutes before buying.

Because when it comes to the usual aspects of mechanical testing such as brakes, shock absorbers, steering angles, engine, cylinders, compression ratios, electrical systems, etc. - very significant technological layers have been added in the last decade and a half.

"The emphasis has shifted from mechanics to technology, the car is controlled by sensors and computer networks. It's a change that also requires a different inspection of the car, an examination of the vehicle's computer and communication networks, a 'search' of the car's fault history to find a systematic problem. Batteries and cells. "

And this sentence by Eyal takes us to the next topic - the future and challenges of testing institutes in the years and perhaps decades to come.

Physical and technical health tests of batteries in electric and hybrid cars (Photo: Manufacturer's website, Volvo)

"The rechargeable and hybrid vehicles already reach about 25 percent of the market and will be joined by full electric vehicles. This requires us to adapt the tools to these tests," he explains. "Voltage and conduction systems, we also have pilots who test for electrical leaks and radiation anomalies that we are testing for future use."

But it is also a challenge in the near term, as more and more cars are marketed with advanced, radar-based safety systems, camera or a combination of the two when advanced in them if not most with steering wheel and brake control capabilities.

"The whole world of ADAS (Advanced Driving Assistance Systems) is a fascinating field with an impact on vehicle performance, probably with the introduction of semi-autonomous systems," he explains. "It is significant in maintaining safety. If it succeeds, we will also suggest to the regulator to consider advancing in the field."

And the regulator committee that will join, and the era of the era in which we will send our autonomous car that will do the buying test and come back to tell us - take your next car for testing before buying, these are the 550 shekels most significant in this buying process, if not economically - in terms of safety.

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