
During the course of this last month we did a blog on Accident damaged vehicles being Defective Motor Vehicles and in that blog we also covered the consumers rights, in terms of the Consumer Protection Act No 68 of 2008(CPA), to claim a repair, a replacement or a refund of the purchase price from the dealer and/or service provider in the event that the consumer had bought a defective/accident damaged vehicle.
We continue to get daily inquiries about this problem.
A purchaser also has similar rights in terms of the common law, in the possible event that the CPA is not applicable in the circumstances of any particular case. This can occur for example when the 6-month statutory period since the date of sale has already expired.