Kent Motors are in the business of ****ming and selling written off cars to consumers.

I bought a car from Kent Motors Durban in 26 March 2020 which was meant to be happy day for me. The car gave me issues from day one (but i couldn't return it since it was lockdown), the dealer asked to sort out everything if I allow them to (level 4 lockdown). Mind you i wasn't even allowed to test drive the car as i was told its a performance car. I trusted the dealership as their a big dealership in KZN, car kept on having issues every 3/4 months or so.

1. Car overheated on the very first day and went to limp mode, i wanted to go home with car but i could not. 2. Traction control would turn on for no reason 3. Rain sensors wouldn't work. 4. Wheel Bearing issue. 5. Petrol Pump and injectors failed. 6. Car overheated damaging the piston and engine block again.

After sorting out these expensive repairs mostly at own pocket i decided to sell the car in August 2022, i had planned to keep the car till 2027.

I decided to sell the car to We Buy Cars who gave me a very good offer. The guys at we buy cars where able to see that the car was in serious accident as the dashboard was showing signs of unevenness, and dashboard isn’t even from the manufacturer (not from Ford). So they said they don’t buy cars where airbags have deployed at we buy cars, i was devastated when i heard this and in disbelief.

Now dealer never disclosed to me that the car was in an accident. So I did some research and found that the car was owned by the Telesure group (Insurance Group) and i was able to obtain pictures of the car where i saw the extend of the damage, all front airbags deployed. Dealer is saying that they were not aware of the damage put I don’t think it’s true as We Buy Cars was able to see this issue within a few minutes in the car. I have been ****med by Kent Motors, sold a code 3 vehicle as a code 2 car, dealer made money through the sale of this car and i am still making a loss even today (I was sold ******* at a premium cost). It made sense why the car kept on having serious every 3/4 months cause it was written off before.

I called Kent Motors to inform them of the findings from We Buy Cars, they said i should bring back the car, when i was returning the car to Kent Motors the piston from cylinder one broke. So they said they will gladly take the car back if i fix the engine, in which they quoted me R99k which includes new turbo's, new engine block, thermostat, oil and water pump etc, basically a new engine. When they repaired my car in 2020 they never gave me a new turbo, new oil and water pump, new thermostat i just got a new engine block.

Now my issue is, We Buy Cars was able to pick up this problem within a few minutes of being in the car and the dashboard is exactly how it was when i bought, how come a big dealership like Kent Motors not be able to pick this issue out? I was also able to do my research on the car which took me half a day and got pictures of the car including Telesure owning the car.

I hope who ever reads this review informs their friends and family members on Kent Motors, they have made my first car experience a horrible and very expensive one.