DEFECTS IN CARS
Manufacturers Should Pay (Special Crspdt. N.Z.PA.) LONDON, July 29. The Research Institute for Consumer Affairs says that customers should not pay for car defects. A pamphlet describing what the institute’s investigators found when they interviewed manufacturers and distributors suggests that manufacturers should pay dealers a fairer rate for guarantee work. Ideally, manufacturers should be responsible for predelivery inspection, and not different dealers with different attitudes to it and different facilities for doing it. Failing this, manufacturers should make sure dealers carry out the predelivery inspection thoroughly. The customer should expect his car to be free of faults, and if it has to be repaired he should get the use of another car as a replacement, says the pamphlet
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30818, 2 August 1965, Page 5
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