Advice on Imports
used and chemicals that include salt are used to treat the roads to delay the formation of ice and permit easy removal of the snow from the roads. While this system works for the removal of snow, it’s bad news for the cars in the UK. These salty compounds collect under the cars and fender wells, eventually eating away the metallic parts. So be careful of very cheap cars from the UK, you are better off spending more money on a good car than a rust bucket
Japan has never been a big fan of dirty diesel cars, maybe the idling rattle and noise from diesel engines is not their favourite. Maybe they just don’t like the smoke, o r mess associated with diesel cars. Newer Common Rail diesel engines, however, make less noise and perform almost just as good as their petrol counterparts if not better. New generation common rail diesel engines are fuel efficient and more powerful and that is what the UK people are all about...economy. There are a few things to keep in mind before choosing a diesel engine. Diesel engines are more expensive to maintain. The new generation common rail diesel engines are even more expensive to buy and to maintain. Another challenge for Zimbabweans is that we don’t have machinery to service common rail so eventually it becomes a problem to maintain a car with a common rail engine. Keep away from high mileage diesel engines. They get expensive to maintain as they get older. They also feed on very clean diesel. Contaminated diesel affects them a lot.
Some of the diesel trucks from Japan would have reached their end of life and come here looking for the after-life. Unfortunately, there is no life after death here.
There are no spares and no technicians well acquainted with these cars and some of them have had hundreds of thousands of kilometres knocked off the odometer.
I have said it before that, the moment I hear about UK car imports, my mind automatically shows me a picture of rusty, noisy, smokey old looking trash cans that have us believe when they say Africa is a junk yard. Be careful therefore when dealing with UK imports. Till Next Time. Happy motoring.