Any vehicle for sale listed on any one of the popular on-line vehicle sales sites (and on-line auction sites) that in reality is a piece of
junk, but with a quick inexpensive paint job, the vehicle looks great in the on-line photos (which are usually not very large).
Upon buying or winning the bid on such a car, and once the new owner obtains the vehicle, he/she finds out that the vehicle basically had just a quick cheap paint job that only looks
good from 20
feet away. He/she finds rust was painted over, and everything else about the car is a nightmare (
bad suspension, leaking
window seals, electrical problems, underside body rot, missing parts, etc.)
The new owner will find that they will spend thousands of dollars just to get the vehicle roadworthy, which by that time, the inexpensive quick paint job will start to wear and peel, and rust will begin to
bubble through.
A perfumed
pig seems to sell for
twice what its actually worth simply because the combination of the fresh paint job & on-line photos make it appear that the vehicle is worth more.
