[Epoch Times, July 28, 2021]Recently, Henan Province has experienced continuous heavy rainfall, and the local reservoirs have been flooding without warning, causing floods. After the flood, countless water vehicles will face maintenance and handling problems. So, where will these water trucks go?
According to the “Daily Economic News”, an industry insider revealed that “the water tanker will definitely flow out to the national market, especially the more sinking market.”
The number of cars in Zhengzhou, Henan Province exceeds 4 million. Henan Automobile Trade Center, located in Jinshui District of Zhengzhou, is one of the larger automobile cities in Zhengzhou.
Although most stores stated that no vehicles were affected, there are still many new cars parked in the parking lot that have been soaked in water. In the Weijia Automobile Park, another large-scale automobile industrial park in Zhengzhou, there are many unlisted, soaked new cars parked in the park.
Many people will choose to buy a soaking car, BMW is becoming the best selling model in a second-hand car shop in Zhengzhou. The employees of this store divide the customers who come to buy the water bubble car into two types: some people buy it back for their own use, some people make money from this, and the car will flow into the market.
On the morning of July 20, Li Yue (pseudonym) drove his Volkswagen to work, and the car stalled at an intersection with deep water. Around 4 pm, the towing company contacted by Li Yue sent the car into the 4S shop.
Li Yue decided to keep this “semi-bubble car” by himself, but he also knew that the performance of the car had been affected. Once it was soaked in water, the car would have a problem. It was just a matter of how soon the problem came. “No matter how you repair it, There are always problems with this car, and this kind of car has various risks. He fixes it for you. After half a month or half a year, at most, there will be an inexplicable malfunction light after a year. , Because the car has a large number of lines on the chassis, I never know which line of the dozens of thousands of lines is wrong.”
Generally speaking, water-soaking vehicles are mainly divided into three grades according to the degree of wading. They are: “immersed vehicles”, that is, the flooding exceeds the tires, and the general problem is not big; “half-soaking vehicles”, that is, the flooding exceeds the engine dipstick. It is serious but not scrapped; “full-bubble car”, that is, flooded over the roof, is a scrapped car.
Like 4S shops, second-hand car dealers have many vehicles for sale that were soaked in the rain. According to employees here, the price of the car will drop if it is soaked in water.
For the sale of water tankers, the store said that it would not specify the “water tanker” in the contract, but would specify the condition of the car and write “accident car”. The other party said, “There are also more in this market, like the one in Guangdong. Every year there are so many such cars on the market, but you don’t know.”
An industry insider said, “In essence, it will definitely flow out to the national market.” He said that after some of the previous floods, there must be a lot of water trucks, but the scale is not as large as this time in Henan.
This person in the industry believes that if an individual consumer encounters such a privately repaired car, it is actually difficult to find. He thinks that this can only depend on the professionalism of the car dealer and whether he can tell the truth. And the soaking trucks that “recharged with shoddy goods” are more for the sinking market.
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