Rise in Online Car Scams

Posted by Shane Teskey on 20 January 2012 in Ask the Experts, Featured, How we've helped, Used Car Buying Tips | No comments

Motorcheck looks at an increase in one particular kind of scam that involves duping unsuspecting buyers with a ‘Ghost Car’.

Frozen Windscreen’s a Thing of the Past?

Posted by Shane Teskey on 17 November 2011 in Ask the Experts, Used Car Buying Tips | No comments

Cian Royston from NVD shows Motorcheck the Heatshot, a heated winscreen wash system that clears ice, snow, grease, bird droppings and dead insects from the windscreen, whilst prolonging the life of your wiper blades.

Motorcheck.ie Highlights Car Clocking on RTE News

Posted by Shane Teskey on 7 October 2011 in Featured, How we've helped, Used Car Buying Tips | 1 comment

A study by Motorcheck.ie shows that as many as 1 in 5 cars for sale in Ireland may have been clocked. RTE’s Nine O’Clock News picks up the story.

Court Rules on Side of Consumer Against GE Money

Posted by Shane Teskey on 28 July 2011 in Ask the Experts, Used Car Buying Tips | No comments

An interesting ruling in the High Court yesterday could make it easier for car owners to terminate their hire purchase agreements but don’t expect to get away scot free!

Car Clocking Grips Northern Ireland

Posted by Shane Teskey on 23 June 2011 in Featured, How we've helped, Used Car Buying Tips | No comments

A recent undercover operation by the BBC has uncovered a rise in the number of cars being clocked in Northern Ireland.

Trading Standards are quoted as saying “We would be hard pushed to identify a town or city where there isn’t a clocker or a number of clockers operating”

Need something with a bit of extra legroom?

Posted by Shane Teskey on 27 May 2011 in Used Car Buying Tips, Used Cars | 4 comments

Motorcheck has been given exclusive access to a TTT (Transparent Trade Tender) where there are two very special vehicles going under the hammer.

Merlin Car Auctions is Ireland’s Best Managed Company

Posted by Shane Teskey on 8 March 2011 in Used Car Buying Tips, Used Cars | No comments

One of our favourite partners, Merlin Car Auctions has been awarded the highly respected accolade of Deloitte Best Managed Company at an award ceremony held in the Burlington Hotel in Dublin last Friday (4th March 2011

Stolen Cars Seized in Balbriggan as part of Garda Operation

Posted by Shane Teskey on 23 October 2010 in Used Car Buying Tips | Comments Off

Garda begin ‘Operation Shannon’ in Balbriggan, Co. Dublin with the safe retrieval of 2 stolen cars and a further 4 in Dublin, Wicklow and Kildare.

Outstanding Finance Still A Serious Concern

Posted by Shane Teskey on 21 September 2010 in Ask the Experts, Featured, How we've helped, Used Car Buying Tips | 2 comments

Whilst we don’t have any official statistics on the number of cars being repossessed in Ireland, when RTE’s The Consumer Show called us, we thought it was high time we conducted a survey of the current market and tried to uncover the chances of buying a used car with outstanding finance.

Read on to see the results of our survey and the segment of The Consumer Show that was aired last night.

Do We Put Too Much Faith in Tipp-Ex?

Posted by Shane Teskey on 12 August 2010 in Used Car Buying Tips | 2 comments

As you know dishonest sellers will do just about anything to sell a car. Some of the methods used to deceive people require skill and a certain level of ‘expertise’ (forging logbooks, modifying VIN numbers, etc.).

Others however need nothing more than a bottle of Tipp-Ex to execute a con and you’d be surprised how many of us fall for the latter.