Ipeleng Mabusela, CEO strategy and corporate support for the Retail Motor Industry Organisation (RMI), the leading voice in the automotive aftermarket sector with more than 170,000 employees employed through its eight associations, warmly congratulates the newly appointed cabinet of ministers and deputy ministers, specifically those in the Departments of Transport, Employment and Labour, Education, Trade, […]
The South African Motor Body Repairers’ Association (SAMBRA) is calling for insurance data transparency to help protect South African consumers. Listen to this 702 conversation for yet another alarming example of a consumer purchasing a second-hand car with a very troubled past. Radio clip via Radio 702.
An 84-year old pensioner in Bela Bela has not only lost his original Toyota Corolla which he trustingly traded into a dealer online, but has also been unwittingly been sold a 2021 Suzuki Brezza with just 28,525 km on the clock for R230,000. What looked like a dream car at the initial physical inspection in […]
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, […]
Picture this: You find the perfect used car – affordable, stylish, seemingly in pristine condition. You buy it, excited for your new set of wheels. But weeks later, an unsettling clunk on the highway turns into a terrifying spinout. Turns out, your “dream car” was once a mangled mess, declared a write-off by insurance and […]
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 […]
