Car Mileage and Duty Verification

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@kamnjoro

I have been on a hunt for a nice Noah. Vitu nimejionea jameni! You get a very nice car online or through referrals, but when you are ready to buy, you get surprises.

Case 1: Car co-owned
This guy had taken a loan on the car and was getting late on payments. Only after doing the search did I get to know about the co-ownership, which he admitted. So, I call the Bank, they had no idea the car is on sale. Car confisticated pap.

Case 2: Tampered Mileage
Car is a 2007 and reads 110K kms. I check from KEBS and the mileage as at Oct 2013 was 128K. Meaning mileage inasonge reverse. I detected tampering, and since am not sure what else has been tampered with, nikasema wacha ikae.

FYI, check the mileage from here: http://www.kebs.org/?opt=qai&view=vehicle_search-inspection

Case 3: Clean inside out, Fully loaded, blah blah blah
Supported by excellent pictures. Not until you physically see the car. Unapata imechapa and wonder if those are pictures of the same car.

And how do I verify if duty has been paid, cos the COR from search does not seem to confirm this?

Ni khaarrd

Why not import directly? You still have about a week or so.

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@kamnjoro

I imagine a car imported in 2013, hizo documents zote kuna mtu atakua nazo? I think there must be a way to verify by just having the chassis number.

Short of walking in to Times Towers (to verify payment of taxes and duties), the other alternative is to check with NTSA. As long as the vehicle is clean (all duties paid) the same will reflect in their records.

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@kamnjoro

Mbossi, hio pesa 750K nimesave miaka tano ndio itoshe. An import will require I save for another 5 yrs, by which time prices zitakua zimefika 2m itabidi ningojee another three years.

I presume you don’t wanna take a loan for the balance?

@kamnjoro

Surely, it is possible to by a clean 3rd-hand car. At least records zake ziko sawa, meaning what you buy is what is on record. Au sio?

Clean, yes. Cheap? Another story altogether.

[Ngati_migration]

Kama Sonko fulani Nai was selling this Rav4 ati he has stayed with it for 3yrs na at mileage ni 40k it was so low to be true.I almost bought it but a second thought for no reason told me not to buy.I think i made the right choice.

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@Ngati migration

Kama Sonko fulani Nai was selling this Rav4 ati he has stayed with it for 3yrs na at mileage ni 40k it was so low to be true.I almost bought it but a second thought for no reason told me not to buy.I think i made the right choice.

Kama alinunua from toyota kenya that would have been abit true lakini kama ni import hapo ungecheswa

[system]

I got a nice black 2007 KBZ with a mileage of 155K. Though I coughed a little bit more.

[ochithunder]

Boss, you can even get a 50 year old car that is in very good shape. You just need to search hard enough…

Concours???