Car seller obliged to return Dhs45,000 to buyer for tampering with mileage counter

Abdulrahman Saeed, Staff Reporter

Abu Dhabi Family, Civil and Administrative Cases Court obligated a car seller to return Dhs45,000, the value of the car to the buyer, who said that he had had the car technically examined with the aim of registering it and discovered that there was tampering with the mileage counter, as the seller told the buyer it had travelled 124,000 kilometres, but the test proved that it travelled 190,000 kilometres in 2019.

The buyer filed a lawsuit against the seller in which he requested that he be obligated to pay him the value of the car, Dhs45,000, cancel the sales contract, and also obligate him to pay the fees and expenses of the lawsuit, after he had cheated him when he tampered with the odometer of the car which he bought from him.

The court appointed an expert who examined the car and affirmed that its metre had been tampered with before the date of purchase.

The court explained that the appellant sold the vehicle with a defect and that he tampered with the odometre and that was proved to the appellant after subjecting the vehicle to a technical test to register it.

The court stated it concluded through the documents and the expert’s report that the appellant had made a mistake, so it ruled to cancel the sales contract and obligated the appellant to return the value of the car Dhs45,000, to the appellant.