WHAT THE UNCERTAINTY COSTS
The discount for not knowing is bigger than the repairs.
A buyer who cannot verify history does not walk away. They bid lower, and the honest seller with a genuinely well-maintained car absorbs that discount along with everyone else.
The careful owner
Serviced on schedule at a proper workshop for five years, and receives the same price as an identical car that was not. There is no way to prove the difference.
The neglected car
Sells for more than it should, because the buyer prices the average risk rather than this car's risk.
The buyer
Pays a discount that covers the possibility of a rebuilt engine, and still carries the risk that it is a rebuilt engine.
The workshop
Did the work, knows the truth, and has no way to say so to anyone who will own the car later.
Everybody in this loses except the person who rewound the odometer, and they only make two hundred thousand rupiah.
If you buy, sell, or service used cars.
Being designed and nothing to use. The useful thing is concrete: what you check today, and what you have been caught by.
yusuf.maulana@catatbengkel.online
Yogyakarta, Indonesia