What Are the Impacts of Not Scrapping Zombie Cars on Owners?
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Here are the impacts of not scrapping zombie cars on owners: 1. Affecting License Renewal or Annual Inspection: If caught driving a scrapped motor vehicle, the owner will face fines, revocation of the driver's license, mandatory scrapping of the vehicle, and payment of associated costs. 2. Harsher Penalties for Traffic Accidents: If an accident occurs while driving a scrapped vehicle, even if the other party is largely at fault, the owner must still bear the liability within the compulsory traffic insurance compensation limit in case of injuries or fatalities. More severely, if the accident results in serious injury to one person and the owner is primarily responsible, they may face criminal charges. Driving a scrapped vehicle is an aggravating factor, usually disqualifying the owner from probation. 3. Risk of Vehicle Identification Misuse: If the car is sold as scrap, identifiers such as the engine number and chassis number may be retained by criminals and installed on other vehicles.
I have friends who suffered losses due to not scrapping their abandoned vehicles. The main issue is that the vehicle information remains under the owner's name without deregistration, which may prevent them from getting license plates for a new car in the future because the system shows the old car still exists. Additionally, parking fees and traffic violation fines may still accrue even if the car is unused—if it's caught on camera or someone uses your license plate for illegal activities, all the trouble falls on you. More seriously, some places have started charging abandoned vehicles for occupying public spaces, and parking in community public spaces might lead to lawsuits from property management for compensation. The key point is that without scrapping, you can't recover the residual value subsidy for the vehicle, wasting thousands of yuan for nothing. When I disposed of my old car, the scrapyard also warned me that long-term failure to scrap the vehicle could affect personal credit, potentially causing issues with bank loans.
