Car buyers beware of crashed vehicles

A fifth of us don’t carry out any checks before buying a used car, writes John Hearne

It is far less stressful and time consuming to do your homework before you buy the car than it is to seek redress after the fact.

Last week, the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) announced that it had taken enforcement action against a Dublin-based car trader for ‘engaging in misleading commercial practices and providing misleading information to consumers’.

John McLoughlin, trading at Mac Autos, Raheny, Dublin 5, was required to issue refunds to consumers who had bought cars from him in 2018 and 2020.