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BYD Australia to Refund 1,265 Owners After Build-Year Mix-Up on Atto 3, Sealion 8 and Shark 6
BYD Australia has confirmed 1,265 Atto 3, Sealion 8 and Shark 6 buyers were sold cars stamped as MY26 on the paperwork that were actually built in 2025. Cause was a CRM field that stored the date the car left the factory rather than the true build date, and dealers wrote contracts off that field. No mechanical or safety defect; compliance plates and government records were correct throughout. BYD is contacting every affected owner with three options: a full refund of the original transaction price, a MY26-built replacement of the same model at the original purchase price, or keep the current car plus a $1,100 goodwill payment roughly equal to a dealer delivery fee. The full refund and MY26 swap were added only after the ABC picked the story up; BYD's initial offer to everyone was the $1,100 cheque alone. Owners can self-check the build date on the door-jamb compliance plate or by decoding the 10th character of their 17-digit VIN (S is 2025, T is 2026). Build year drives resale value on Redbook and Glass's, sum-insured bands, and fleet-lease depreciation schedules. Warranty is untouched at 6yr/150,000km vehicle and 8yr/160,000km battery from first registration.
VFACTS June 2026: Australia's Biggest Ever Sales Month, BYD Finishes Just 243 Cars Behind Toyota
Australia records its biggest ever month of new-car sales in June 2026 at 140,058 units across all sources (VFACTS itself 131,134, up ~7% YoY). Toyota leads with 19,124 to BYD's 18,881, the closest gap ever. Tesla Model Y tops the model chart for the second month running on 8,072, beating Ford Ranger (5,999) and Toyota HiLux (5,175). Three BYDs in the top 10: Sealion 7 (4,730), Shark 6 (3,398) and Atto 2 (2,482). BEV share hits a record 23.3% (vs 7.6% June 2025) with electrified cars at ~49.5% of the market. China supplies 35.5% of every new car sold. YTD Toyota 95,141, BYD 52,335 (+141.1%).
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