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The benefit of doing a VIN check in Nigeria before you purchase a car can never be overestimated. It will help save your hard earned money and most importantly your time amongst others. I have always known that some of us would do anything to sell our cars. However, the extent of this malicious act has grown from unreasonable to unfathomable.

You won’t believe what my eyes have seen as I am currently trying to get a 2007-2010 Camry for a client. The issues vary from flooded cars, rolled back mileage and extreme accidents to jalopy cars that look picture-perfect online. The car that drove me to the brink was a 2009 tokunbo Camry on OLX for N2m which looked good enough coupled with the usual hype from the seller.

Nevertheless, something seemed amiss because the price was too good. As usual, I requested for the car’s VIN to determine its history before going for a physical inspection. The disastrous history report revealed it was sold as scrap/destroyed car in USA and shipped to Nigeria 4 years ago, but the seller misrepresented this car to be a clean tokunbo, despite the fact that it has been registered and used in Nigeria for 3 years.

These same reasons compelled me to start importing all my client’s cars from the USA and Canada in 2011, it has been cheaper and less stressful as the entire process from purchase to delivery is usually done from the comfort of my home. Fast forward to 2016, looking inward has become inevitable due to the sky-high dollar exchange rate. Therefore, clients with constrained budget have to settle for tokunbo cars while some prefer the Nigerian used cars.

Finally, when a deal seems too good to be true, then you need to be more careful e.g when the price is too fanimorous, the low mileage is not commensurate to the age of the car (e.g a 2001 model regular car will hardly have a mileage of 75,000 miles), when the seller wants you to take the car after paying 60% deposit while the balance will be spread over 3-6 months (in this case, the car is probably a Nigeria used car presented as tokunbo and it’s not worth more than your initial deposit so the balance you’ll be paying is extra profit to the seller) etc.

Let’s all make Nigeria great again.

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When will VIN start working in Nigeria

A Nigerian panel beater can change everything in a car and still present it to you as fairly used and there is no information to look up.
The more reason you should stay clear of Nigerian fairly used vehicle even if na woman or banker bin get am.

First page since last year, some people are just too fast.....

Let me go and read the article.......


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First to comment sha cool

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Informative!! Nice one from the OP

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Thanks Op. This is very helpful. That car though.. Niger i hail o!

This is very true. 99℅ of nigerians are victims of this. I have been to lagos where accided cars are shipped in and sold for new. A recent case was a 2016 land cruiser that got involvedin an accident, the airbag did not deploy despite not being switched off.

Some of these cars are sold at 3 times the actual cost of acquiring them

The latest fad is to tell you that it was used by a bank or a woman. Do not fall for that crap

wer u see money to buy car...........

that's a very good move

Abeg no vex, what is VIN

Educative but am among the few that prefers jet.. Car is too much a stress.

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philchudi:
Abeg no vex, what is VIN

Vehicle identification number

How would I check it?

AutoJoshNG

What's the average mileag for foreign used car that you would wanna recommend?

Wow. This is eye opening. Many people don't know this and they waltz off to get any automobile. Good work op.

harmbhrosz:
AutoJoshNG

What's the average mileag for foreign used car that you would wanna recommend?

its not about recommendation, its about yiu taking time to check the vin number online before making up your mind to either put up with buying the scrap or not

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My nebor does accidental car business. Must times he do import those with little problems like the door been heat llittle and he normally replace with a new door before a specialist will do correct auto Base paint to the affected area. At the end is just like new car. He told me he buys from insurance company in USA and he does that online. He is really making good money. I pray I raise some loan to join him

This is a very important post. I almost fell for the antics until I got my money back with 'agidi'. The said car was sold 2 years before to a man in Ondo State and was brought to Lagos State. A friend of mine told me not to buy the car but I went ahead to pay half of the money behind him until he saw it and showed me all the patches and works done to it. Anyway, I have learnt my lesson from that day..

OP ...how can I find out the VIN on my own. Does it required any registration with auto sites. Need an insight into this. Once bitten twice shy my brother.

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