OMVIC fines Hitech Auto Sale $5,000 for selling two Toyotas without disclosing accident repairs

Two used Toyotas, two buyers, and no written word about the accident repairs on either. OMVIC’s Discipline Tribunal fined Shekedin Shekedin o/a Hitech Auto Sale and Services $5,000 on February 13, 2026, and ordered the sole proprietor, registered since 2008, to complete the MVDA Key Elements Course within ninety days.

On May 14, 2025, the dealer sold a 2014 Toyota Corolla that had previously incurred accident damage with repairs valued at $2,474, $3,339, and $8,729. On July 4, 2025, it sold a 2011 Toyota RAV4 carrying accident repairs valued at $4,816. Neither buyer received written disclosure of the repair history. The Agreed Statement of Facts ties the Corolla sale to paragraphs 19 and 25 of s. 42 of O. Reg. 333/08 and the RAV4 sale to paragraph 19.

The $3,000 line and the catch-all

Paragraph 19 of s. 42 is the incident-repair rule: if the total cost of repairs to fix damage from an incident exceeds $3,000, the contract must say so, and if the dealer knew the total, it must state the amount. Paragraph 25 is the catch-all that scoops up anything else a reasonable buyer would want to know before signing. The Corolla file engaged both; repairs valued at $2,474, $3,339 and $8,729 on one compact car are exactly the kind of history that moves a purchase decision.

This is the disclosure cluster that keeps producing discipline orders. Hot Wheels Car Sales hid total-loss and salvage brands across five vehicles, Rite Price sold two total-loss Fords with a “clean car” ad, and Bolton Honda involved disclosure statements under the same section. Hitech is the plain-vanilla version: no salvage brand, no rebuild, just repair bills over the threshold that never made it onto paper.

What the panel found

The Reviewing Panel (Greg Flude, Anne French, Joe Malfara) accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts dated December 4, 2025 and a joint submission on penalty under Rule 1.07, without an oral hearing. The findings landed on three Code of Ethics provisions: s. 7(1) (a registrant shall ensure all documents used in a trade are current and comply with the law), s. 9(1) (no act or omission that would reasonably be regarded as disgraceful, dishonourable, unprofessional or unbecoming), and s. 9(3) (best efforts to prevent error, misrepresentation, fraud or unethical practice).

The Notice of Referral to Discipline, dated November 5, 2025, originally went further: its paragraphs 8 through 11 were withdrawn as part of the resolution. The reasons for decision also carry an oddity: the panel describes the two trades as “one involving breach of the all-in pricing regulations and one involving failure to disclose accident damage”, though the agreed facts describe two disclosure failures and no pricing allegation. The order reads as it reads; the operative findings are the three Code of Ethics sections above.

On penalty, the panel walked through its standard aims (specific deterrence, general deterrence, rehabilitation) and noted the parties had not previously been before the Tribunal. The cases OMVIC cited involved single breaches; two breaches here warranted a higher fine. Beyond his own course requirement, the dealer must also offer to fund the MVDA Key Elements Course for all current and future salespersons.

What to learn

• $3,000 in incident repairs is a hard disclosure trigger. Paragraph 19 of s. 42 requires a written statement once repairs from an incident cross that line, plus the total if you know it. Pull the history report before you write the contract, not after.
• The catch-all backstops the specific rules. Even where a repair history sits awkwardly against the enumerated paragraphs, paragraph 25 catches any fact that could reasonably influence a buyer’s decision. A repair history like the Corolla’s is such a fact.
• Count the breaches, not the files. The panel priced two undisclosed histories above the single-incident precedents OMVIC cited. Each trade with a disclosure gap is its own breach, and they add up, the same way the five-vehicle file at Hot Wheels drew $10,000.