Carefully reconditioned cars

Ibrahim5

There is an advert on TV for a car company that says that they carefully recondition cars before selling them. It makes me break out in spontaneous uncontrolled laughter. What are they talking about?

onlyfoolsandparking

Ibrahim5 said:

There is an advert on TV for a car company that says that they carefully recondition cars before selling them. It makes me break out in spontaneous uncontrolled laughter. What are they talking about?

They use a slightly higher quality shampoo and wax 

tacpot12

Well, when you re-condition anything, you are trying to bring it back to a certain condition, usually "New".

This is more or less impossible to do with a used car at a reasonable cost, so I think the Advertising Standards Agency would say that this is "clearly" marketing puff and not meant to mislead anyone, but I think many will be misled. I wonder where they get their "new car smell" from?

Goudy

OED defines recondition as overhaul or repair.

I gather this to mean any faults from their inspection (however good that is) will be repaired or overhauled.

So for example, if they find a a nail in the tyre, I presume they would repair it.

If it's below minimum tread depth, I presume they would overhaul it with a new one.