Reporting someone selling a written off car?

jagerluvinliamo

Hi,

I came across a dealer attempting to sell a car that was written off recently. What ways are there to report him besides getting onto the guards, are cartell etc. interested to know this ?

I really want to light the fire under this ****er cause i'd say its not the first time he has tried this.

Cookie_Monster

Depending on the category of write off he's perfectly entitled to sell it as long as he discloses the facts

Run_to_da_hills

If it was written off technically the registration book should have been surrendered as scrapped.

stellarartois

Sure maybe he's selling it for parts? wouldnt you know it was written off looking at it? If you didn't notice that you should have gone to specsavers.

pa990

there are different categories of write-off's
A : to be destroyed
to
E : minor damage, deemed too expensive for insurance comp to repair

EPM

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Depending on the category of write off he's perfectly entitled to sell it as long as he discloses the facts

Unless the OP has proof that he wasn't doing this I cant see the issue

Absurdum

link to car?

stealthyspeeder

I the Repairs have been done correctly, would there be a problem in selling it again f it was declared?

My friend wrote off his 172 Cup and basically the car was structurally sound, but the cost of the aesthetic and replaceable part repairs were greater than 2/3rd the value of the car. If someone replaced the bumper, the headlights, bonnet and wheel arch panels, there would not be a thing wrong with that car. Yet it was classed as a write off.

jagerluvinliamo

Trust me he wasn't selling it for parts and most certainly did not tell me it was a write off nor provide record to show it was. The car looked perfect to me on the outside to be honest and drove fine. But when i checked the records it didn't show that. It was "written off by the insurer" so it wasn't to be destroyed.

The guy is clearly trying to decieve people into buying a car that may or may not be road worthy.

stellarartois

I'm sure its grand.

Hellrazer

jagerluvinliamo wrote: »

"written off by the insurer"

Written off by the insurer just means that it was too expensive for them to pay for the repair.

If someone bought it off the insurance company and paid for the repair themselves with parts up to spec I`d have no problems buying it.

flamegrill

jagerluvinliamo wrote: »

Hi,

I came across a dealer attempting to sell a car that was written off recently. What ways are there to report him besides getting onto the guards, are cartell etc. interested to know this ?

I really want to light the fire under this ****er cause i'd say its not the first time he has tried this.

Tell him that you did a check on cartell.ie and it shows that it was previously written off. Ask for an explanation as to why this wasn't disclosed. Tell him you'll take the car off him for 2k less than he's asking for as it was a previously crashed car written off by the insurers.

Paul

jagerluvinliamo

I have no interest in buying the car I have found another in the meantime. Yes the car might have been grand, but thats not the point. This person made no attempt to tell me it was written off by the insurer, i just want to know is there a way of reporting it so as no one gets caught out.

EPM

Did you ask if it had ever been damaged?

Digitaljunkie

pa990 wrote: »

there are different categories of write-off's
A : to be destroyed
to
E : minor damage, deemed too expensive for insurance comp to repair

Yes you are right the main categories are,

If the right off falls under category A or B it should never reappear on the road.

Form motorcheck.ie

Category A - beyond repair, vehicle must be crushed
Category B - vehicles body must be crushed, may be used for supplying some replacement parts
Category C - vehicle has been extensively damaged and repaired
Category D - vehicle has been damaged, insurer decided not to repair
Category F - Vehicle damaged by fire and insurer has decided not to repair. In the Uk when this vehicle has been repaired it can re-registered as 'damaged repaired'.

Under Categories C - D - F if the car is repaired properly by the main dealer and all paperwork is issued theirs no problem, but this rarely happens as a profit must be made and to do this you have to cut corners.

The problem is as they generally fall under the category of "Beyond Economical Repair" Joe bloggs buys the car from the dealer and repairs it cheaply obviously to make as much money as possible resulting in a death trap returning back on the road "Legally".

I have personal experience of this. I bought a Skoda Superb new in Sept 2007. I was involved in a high speed head on collusion with an un-insured drunk driver:mad::mad::mad: in April 2008 which resulted in me driving through a bank and ditch into a field. The car had 10k on the clock. My insurance company wrote it of as "Beyond Economical Repair".

I payed €30k for the car originally and after the accident 7 months later I sold it for salvage to the main dealer for €4250. A guy then bought it from the dealer, don't know how much he payed, and I have it on good authority that it was cheaply repaired - I had quoted to me its a "Death Trap". I only found out because I spotted the car in a local town and traced it to the garage that did some of the work on it. The car was sold on...........................................

If your thinking of purchasing an insurance right off no mechanic no matter how many years experience he/she has will have the ability to check the car properly. The only chance you have is to have a motor surveyor do a full assessment test which costs around €700.

WALK AWAY.........................

jagerluvinliamo

Thanks, Thats what i did, i walked Away, i was hell bent in buying it until i found out it was written off by the insurer. I wouldn't touch it now.
But what i wanna know is can I report this dealer to anyone just so i can burn the ****er for trying to sell a written off car who didn't say it was, even when asked. He is still trying to sell it online but now has blacked over the reg on the photos.

aldeniro

Link to Car?

Digitaljunkie

Before you link to the car..................

As I explained in the previous post if the car was written off under Category C - D and F it can be repaired and sold on legally if repaired properly. Don't know where the law stands on bad repair or weather the perspective buyer should be told or not anyway a HPI check should be done. If I was interested in buying simply ask the garage if it was ok for me to have an engineers report on the car and if he said no - then he knows its not right.

Dj