Required Announcements

The following conditions must be announced by the seller and the vehicle must be sold with either the "yellow light" or the "red light". The sale is subject to arbitration and/or cancellation if the following announcements are not made. Seller's announcements on the block become part of the sales terms.

Mandatory Announcements (required with all vehicles including "As Is" vehicles)

Odometer announcements

1. True mileage unknown/mileage discrepancies
2. Documented replacement odometers (announced "true mileage unknown")
3. Inoperative odometer
4. Over 100,000 miles (sufficient to announce over 100,000 regardless of whether it is over 200,000 or 300,000 or more)
5. Odometers that register in kilometers
6. Knowledge of mileage on vehicle being different than mileage appearing on the odometer.

Vehicle history

1. Insurance, repossession or salvage history/papers
2. Canadian history/papers
3. Former taxi's, police cars, municipal vehicles, flood cars, lemon law vehicles
4. Negative vehicle history including Carfax and AutoCheck findings whether or not the reports are accurate
5. Titles with the "Damage Disclosure" box checked

Other announcements

1. Title attached vehicles (see selling light system for guidelines on title attached vehicles)
2. Replacement V.I.N. plates
3. Any defect determined by previous arbitration

Vehicle Defect Announcements (required with all vehicles except "As Is" vehicles)

Frame Announcements

1. Frame damage or repaired frame on full framed vehicles except core support
2. Unitized structural body damage except core support
3. Excessive frame rust including floor sections
4. Spliced units

Engine announcements

1. Cracked or repaired engine block
2. Diesel engines
3. Non standard engines
4. Non standard emission control systems

Mechanical defect announcements

1. Any single mechanical defect in the engine or drive train including:
   a. Motor noise
   b. Clutch
   c. Rear end
   d. Malfunctioning transmission
2. Altered or removed emission equipment including catalytic converters and smog pumps
3. ABS brakes (ABS light cannot be arbitrated)
4. Missing, inoperable or deployed air bag safety restraint systems (air bag light cannot be arbitrated)
5. Inoperable 4 wheel drive

Other announcements (applicable only to current calendar year models or newer, and the prior two calendar year models)

1. Inoperative equipment such as cruise control, power seats and windows and/or other major electrical equipment.
2. Inoperative air conditioning and climate control

Other announcements (applicable only to current calendar year or newer models)

1. Replaced, refinished or straightened sheet metal work
2. Visible defects in the interior or exterior
3. Windshields and other glass
4. Springs, shocks and struts
5. Leaky gaskets or seals (except dripping main bearing, front transmission and transaxle seals)
6. U-joints