I don’t know about you but I’ve never once asked if a brand new car I’m buying had incurred any damage (maybe I should). But there’s a reasonable expectation that when a consumer purchases a new vehicle that has never been registered that it’s also never been repainted/repaired. However, I know for a fact that new cars arrive damaged all the time at the port and there’s a QC process in place to repair the damage usually before the vehicle is transported to the dealer. Not sure how that’s communicated to the buyer, if it is, depending on the extent of damage. For a situation like this, I can’t imagine a dealership would ever risk not disclosing the damage since it occurred post PDI. The implications (legal, financial, rep) if they didn’t and it was later discovered would be devastating. In any case, I was specifically told, “We are obligated to disclose this and while it’s not our style of business we could not hide it even if we wanted to.” There may be some dollar amount of repair that when exceeded requires disclosure but I can’t say for sure. So essentially someone will buy the car and be told it’s been repainted. However, following the logic, the car won’t be flagged in carfax and so the onus would then be on the buyer to disclose this to subsequent buyers should the car ever get sold again (assuming the subsequent buyer asked the right questions).