Although we request our drivers don’t take any tip from our clients. Some of our clients still tip our drivers. We would suggest that if you are very happy with the entire services that our driver provided. We suggest that you could write the driver a reference[both email or letter would be fine. For email: info@shangcar.com]. We will arrange the bonus according to the references that we received from our clients monthly.

Any deadhead fees for pickups and drop-offs arrive/depart Shanghai Pudong International Airport and Shanghai Hongqiao Airport?

As a deadhead fee applys to some of  the car rental companies in Shanghai, Beijing and most of the cities in China. With Shangcar, the rental charges that we quoted already covers all the recovery fees, with that there won’t be any additional fees for deadhead fees anymore. Check out our car rental price list here: http://www.shangcar.com/car_rental_shanghai.htm

Please feel free to send info@shangcar.com about your enquiries of rent a car in China or buy your used car in Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou, Guangzhou, Hangzhou etc.

BUY A USED CAR IN SHANGHAI:

   1. Car Inspection.

After emails and tell communications, Shang Car drives your idea car to a public place or your place for your inspection. Shang Car will have a proposal of this car during the inspection.

   2. Payments:

After the car inspection, you confirmed that you are going to buy this car. It’s time to arrange payment and deliver the car. Payments: we accept cash or cheque. For cash, you could arrange down payment or fully payment WHICH is 100% prepaid.

As for down payment:

a. we accept 10% of the car’s price as down payment, we will begin to procedure the ownership transfer as soon as this 10% been received.
b. The rest 90% will be paid after you successfully received the car and all the legal vehicle documents and all under your name.

As for 100% prepaid:

You could drive the car home the same day we received the 100% prepaid of the car.

We will take the rest procedures of transfer the ownership of car to your name.
   3. Register the ownership of car under your name:
We submit all the following documents to road authority to transfer the ownership:

Previous Owner providers: previous owner’s id card, household book, Vehicle Register Certificate, Receipt of Vehicle Tax, Invoice of Vehicle, Vehicle License of the PRC). Shang Car takes car of all the documents of the previous owner, so there’s worry free for you. As for other costs, there will be no any government fee, car tax, nor commission involved.
Current Owner (You or your company)

As company, you provide:

a. Business license [Original]

b. Organization code license number [Original]

c.  Passport copy or I.D. card copy of Legal Representative of Party A

d.  Letter of Authorization with original company chop and Legal Representative’s signature on it.

e.  Bring the company’s original chop when sign the contract and put the chop on some of the car register forms.

As individual, you provide

a. Passport Copy [original]

b. Work Permit [original]

c. Residence Permit [original]

The work permit and residence need to be issued in Shanghai.

   4. Enjoy Safety Drive

After 3 working days, all the legal documents will be received from road authority: the car that you purchased will be register under your name. Enjoy Safety Drive in Shanghai.

For insurances: Please be noted, there will be no any insurances covered after you get the vehicle and all other legal documents, you will need to buy the insurances:

a. traffic compulsory insurance
b. Third party liability insurance.
c. Car Damage Insurance
d. Car Theft Protection Insurance

The above insurances provides the basic car insurance in Shanghai. You could also purchase other insurances if you need more insurance. The insurance will come to affect the same day you bought.

That’s it, see it’s even simple than buy a new car in Shanghai.

There are lots car insurances products in China. It will not automobile come with car insurances when you purchased your new car or used car in China.

We take a sample below to buy your car insurances in Shanghai, usually it’s same all over China.

Some of the basic car insurances that you need to purchase and these are the insurances that most people bought in Shanghai, these are

A. Traffic compulsory insurance [Costs: Seats less than 5, it’s RMB 1050. For seats more than 6: RMB 1100.]
All vehicles drive on roads need to buy this traffic compulsory insurance. Insurance company will cover the third party during the traffic accidents: it will cover all property and life losses except owner of the car, passengers on board. Since all vehicles drive on roads have this insurance, it will cover the car if 2 or more cars hits. Max. compensate: RMB 60,000. The insurance company will compensate whoever the responsibility of an accident. The compensate will be 20% of the max. compensate (RMB 60,000 x 20%= 12,000) when the vehicle’s driver has no responsibility during an accident.

B. Third party liability insurance.
Same like traffic compulsory insurance,  it will cover all property and life losses except owner of the car, passengers on board. Since traffic compulsory insurance only covers 60,000 RMB compensate, a third party liability insurance could help covers more. It has RMB 50K, 100K, 150K, 200K, 300K, 500K, 1000K, total 7 levels for choose. Usually Most owners chose level of RMB 100K. 

C. Car Damage Insurance
The car damage insurance is designed for covers damage of your vehicle. Insurance company will not provides compensate after car knocks, hits or accidents.

D. Car Theft Protection Insurance
For used car, the insurance will only choose to compensate the lower one of your vehicle invoice or depreciation price of your vehicle.

The above insurances provide the basic car insurance in Shanghai. You could also purchase other insurances if you need more insurance. The insurance will come to affect the same day you bought.

Some other insurances:

E. Liability for Passengers and Driver Insurance
This insurance covers the damages to on board driver and passengers.

F. Vehicle Deficiency Waiver
All the car insurances products are set up to 20% Deficiency Waiver. That means during an accident or damage, the car insurances products will cover up to 80% damage and rest 15-20% losses will be paid by owner of a car. With this insurance, car insurances products will cover up to 100% of the damage.

G. Breakage of Glass Insurance.

E. Car Body Scrape Insurance

F. Spontaneous Combustion Insurance

For above insurance, Shang Car is in associate with China United Property Insurance Company, one of the largest car insurance companies in China, which could offer 80% for the car insurance products (the discount except Traffic compulsory insurance) and we don’t take commission from them, or you could choose the insurance by yourself.