The kereta-potongmenaceQ: What is a kereta potong?
A: It is when one half of a car (front or back) is joined (welded) with another half to form a car. The halves usually come from two different cars that survived a bad accident or from imported “half-cuts” (one half of a car).
Q: How did this practice of joining two halves of a car start?
A: A few years ago, there was a lack of guidelines and it was not mandatory for inspections to be done on cars. The cars should have been considered total losses but insurance companies chose to salvage them.
Q: Why was this done?
A: To save money. The companies did not want to pay the full claims for a car that should be written off, so they gave the go ahead to “fix” the car. It is a cheaper and faster alternative to fix one half of a car to another than to fix the car’s bonnet or bumper individually.
Q: So is it harder to get away with it now?
A: Since mandatory inspections came into force in 2005, the kereta potong are being identified.
*Answers supplied by used-car dealers
A: It is when one half of a car (front or back) is joined (welded) with another half to form a car. The halves usually come from two different cars that survived a bad accident or from imported “half-cuts” (one half of a car).
Q: How did this practice of joining two halves of a car start?
A: A few years ago, there was a lack of guidelines and it was not mandatory for inspections to be done on cars. The cars should have been considered total losses but insurance companies chose to salvage them.
Q: Why was this done?
A: To save money. The companies did not want to pay the full claims for a car that should be written off, so they gave the go ahead to “fix” the car. It is a cheaper and faster alternative to fix one half of a car to another than to fix the car’s bonnet or bumper individually.
Q: So is it harder to get away with it now?
A: Since mandatory inspections came into force in 2005, the kereta potong are being identified.
*Answers supplied by used-car dealers
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