Posted on 7/10/2025
Beware of scammers when selling your vehicle. In the past 60 days, we've seen the same scam on two separate customers, both elderly and both selling their diesel pickup trucks. Fortunately, they both had presence of mind to call me and ask questions. Here's the scam. A couple of guys show up to look at your vehicle and one will distract you even if only for a few seconds. During that time, the other person it squirting engine oil into the tail pipe and randomly around the engine compartment and possibly even into the coolant recovery jar right before or sometimes after a test drive. Then, they'll point out the oil dripping from the tail pipe and all over the engine compartment (in this last scam, also on the windshield and hood insulator as well as places fresh new oil should never be) and there may have been some unusual smoke from the engine compartment during or after the test drive due to where they squirted the oil. One of them will point out the oil an ... read more