10 tips avoiding car depreciation

How to avoid high vehicle depreciation? 10 valuable tips against a rude awakening

"I bought the car three years ago for 19,000 Euros as a used car, since then my wife has only driven 5,000 km with it. Today it's not even worth 8,000 Euros. How is that possible?"

This article from May 2019 is intended to give us an overview of the car market in Germany and thus help us make the right decision when buying a car.

This article is in particular intended to help expatriates to use a vehicle for themselves or their spouse for 2 to 3 years and to use it for shopping, picking up children from school and making short excursions.

Fundamentally, our recommendation from COS is that it is better to buy a well-maintained used car than to lease a new car at comparatively high costs.

This gives you the opportunity to drive a better-equipped, more valuable vehicle, while saving money at the same time.

The pre-requisite, however, is that you achieve a good resale price.

How this is done is explained here in this article.

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COS registered officially as car repair company Handwerkskammer Stuttgart

In Germany the regulations for running a car repair workshop are very strict. The reason for that is the extremely high responsibility you have as a car workshop, because of safety. If a mechanist does mistakes in e.g. repairing a brake it is life-threatening.

That's why it is a must to be Meister (Foreman) in vehicle technics, you must have several years experience in maintaining and repairing of cars and you must provide evidence of your technical ability to a chamber of handicrafts, if you want to run a car repair workshop.

COS Stuttgart wants to provide their customers a fully integrated service, even including repair and inspection of the cars, because sometimes it is difficult for the customers to collaborate with the local car repair workshop in terms of language and reliability.

So we went this big step and fulfilled all requirements, and COS Stuttgart became an official registered car repair workshop. We take care for all kinds of services and repairs of our customer´s cars in with best technical knowledge and experience in a professional way.

COS Services officially registered as car repair company by granting KFZ repair and inspection permission Handwerkskammer Stuttgart as concession.