Cheaper used car yards... do genuine cars exist?

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I recently was asked by a friend to help them find a used car. They didnt want to spend much so looked at mostly popular cars (parts availability) both privately and at cheaper used car yards. (That dont sell new cars).

As they live in the shire they asked me to look at a few cars at Carcity mitchinbury so they didnt drive over for nothing. Ok no worries.

First car was a ford bf xt falcon sedan. Ive owned plenty of these cars so i thought id have a decent benchmark. Car was started cold and for first few minutes was slipping everywhere in the gearbox. Trim bits were missing and car had too many km for my liking. It was an ex rental car so pretty much trashed

Next car in the same complex was a calais vy 5.7.. drove it from cold and it didnt know where to idle. It was all over the place and felt like it was lacking power compared to what i know of them. Again high km didnt help as well as windows that didnt work.

Third car i looked at was a mazda 3. There were swirl marks all over this car. Incredible, again trim bits were missing or rxcessively flexed inside evidencing their had been some quick patch up fixes.

Three cars from three were terrible. Told the salesman each time and each time acted all surprised. What a waste of time. I thought id walk through the yards for anything that could interest my mate but all had ridiculous high km and always found a problem with trim or paint tc etc etc. Didnt bother driving anymore as im sure they would be terrible

I asked a salesman, anything in hear with 100,000km or less? He looked around and said na mate.

Ive bought cheaper cars in the past from private people and ghey were all mint cars. Some people do care for used cars. To me that car yard is simply a place to offload mediocre cars with a dark history to people living out west that probably cant afford new cars. But the calibre of cars was just terrible, not one decent car in there.

You could find excellent cars privately especially one owner cars well cared for and at cheaper prices too.

It seems that many of the cheaper yards buys all the rubbish "traded in" cars from the auctions for any amount they can salvage for them and then do some quick patch up fixes to try flog em off for a profit to unsuspecting people.

Anyone ever found a genuine car in any of these types of yards?