In our country while purchasing a used car, a repainted car sometimes may be a symptom/indication of a hidden problem. Most notably ACCIDENT. Some garages, mechanics, and dealers are on the hunt for accidental cars that are totaled on roads everyday. They purchase those dead meat cars at throw-away price. Those totaled cars are then restored in workshops with poor tools, following below par techniques and jugaarrz. Those "totaled" cars are with no life left in them, their chassis either cracked or deformed which is impossible to be restored to its original geometry. This causes poor driveablity / perpetual wheel and suspension related problems. Noisy/problematic doors that do not sit properly in their place, irreparable "Jhankaar mix" soundz of the 90s bollywood fame coming from inside the cabin. More importantly, in some cases a restored-major-accidental car can become a safety hazard for passengers. As 99% restoration workshops in Pakistan dont know nothing about the theory of crumple-zones, or the fragility of soldering a cracked chassis or a roof pillar etc. Resulting in selling coffin-on-wheels.
Hundreds of such cars are sold in showrooms across Pakistan. "apni chalaee hui car hay" "100% genuine hay", "sirf bumper repainted hay" "army afssar, ducter, paro-facer, bank manajar etc ki gaddi hay" are the catch-phrases you hear most often in the land of the Pure.
That said, every repaint car is NOT accidented of course. There can be genuine reasons fro repainting a car. In fact, the world over its considered much better to paint a car rather than keeping a car with ageing/scratched original paint which invites faster body decay due to rust. However, in the land of Hurmat-e-Rasool-pe-jaan-bhi-qurbaan-hay things are a little different. One must not trust workshops/showrooms/dealers etc without making proper verifications on one's own end.
In the interest of general awareness for novice prospective purchasers of used cars.....Please share your experiences/narrow escapes with either purchasing or maintaining or driving such cars ??
Add to list of the downsides of having such cars.
(self edit: i removed the pics, which i originally uploaded for reference sake. As the purpose is NOT AT ALL to defame someone in particular. Thread is for general awareness, information, which is everybody's inalienable right.)