Expanding second hand car park sales good news for independent workshops

Responding to the findings of TransUnion’s latest Vehicle Pricing Index (VPI), Dewald Ranft, Chairman of the Motor Industry Workshop Association (MIWA), a constituent association of the Retail Motor Industry Organisation (RMI), says expanding second hand car park sales, are definitely good news for independent workshops. Ranft says with so many more second-hand options now available, […]

Time for regulation to drive access to information is now

Over 50 key stakeholders, including representation from the Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport, attended the Vehicle Write Off conference in Johannesburg last week to discuss the critical need for an open and transparent Vehicle Salvage Database (VSD) of all vehicles that have previously been “written off” by insurers, and to discuss critical next steps […]

SAMBRA comment on New VIN-Lookup website

Amidst growing pressure, today the South African Insurance Association (SAIA) launched a new VIN-Lookup website with Code 3 (rebuilt), Code 3A (spare parts only) and code 4 (scrap- permanently demolished vehicles) to allow motorists and all relevant stakeholders access to the motoring history of a particular vehicle. Jacques Viljoen, national director of the South African […]