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I would assume by "certified status" you mean the having the official Volvo seal as a "certified used Volvo". As such, I believe it requires being inspected at a Volvo center, prior to the sale, which is why all such certified vehicles are only sold by the dealers.
I really don't see how someone who buys a certified vehicle and then a few years down the road decides to sell it, can say it is still Volvo certified, when all sorts of things could have occurred that would not pass the (whatever number of inspection points Volvo does) certification process Volvo would do in order to claim it to be certified.
If your previous vehicle you transfered the status on was given for a $25 fee but no inspection was done, then they simply took $25 of your money for nothing and gave no actual assurance that the vehicle actually passed the necessary inspections to gain certified status.
However, what you are asking might be something other than this, if so, I guess a little clarification would be needed.
We have a well repected dealer (well, repspect and expensive, not necessarily liked) in town I can check with once I know for certain what it is you are looking for.
All in all, I would expect they would want you to bring the vehicle in to be inspected to their satisfaction before they would give any official certification status to go along with the vehicle. This might be avoided if you have always had the vehicle service by them and they have all the records of such, in which case they should already know the condition of the vehicle pretty well, and might just transfer the status to the new owner (aside from that I don't see how any certification would mean anything if they don't actually inspect the vehicle t hemselves first).
Good luck. Let me know if I am on the right track here, if not try to clarify it a little and I will check with the dealer in town and see what they say.
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Can Certified Status Transfer To New Owner?
Jul 8 2008, 09:20 AM
