Is this a lie from first registration?

Damokc

How does some like this happen? It's not even the correct model for car!?:eek:

Registered as:

Honda Civic
VTEC OHC 1.7
Registration: 01WW6716
Engine: 1.7L
Fuel Type: Petrol
Colour: Blue

But is:
2001 INTEGRA TYPE R 2.0L 220BHP

1.7 ON LOGBOOK-Cheaper tax&Insurance
Completely original Type R.

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2717926

mathepac

Did you try the VIN through a Honda dealer or Japanese web-site? (I assume it's an import) It may be a VIN cloned off a 1.7 Civic. The car cannot be put on the road or insured.

Damokc

mathepac wrote: »

Did you try the VIN through a Honda dealer or Japanese web-site? (I assume it's an import)

How would you find out the VIN? is that not stamped somewhere on the car? this is just an ad I came across looking for 1.7 civics

ARGINITE

You should be able to find it on the bulk head in the engine compartment.

Nissan doctor

Possibly a stolen car using a reg and logbook from a civic?

I know a 94 2.5 skyline that I sold a few years ago turned up last year on donedeal as a 2.0 with 96 plates on it!:rolleyes:

Gumbo

Or when the car was originally VRT'd, it was VRT'd as the 1.7 civic due to lower VRT rates and then lower motor tax.

TestTransmission

kceire wrote: »

Or when the car was originally VRT'd, it was VRT'd as the 1.7 civic due to lower VRT rates and then lower motor tax.

I'm betting this, car has never been taxed or insured properly.

Would it pass the NCT?

Technoprisoner

a lot of jap importers use to fiddle the vrt and tell them it was a 1.7 instead of 2.0 so they could pay less vrt

Damokc

Ya, would this pass the NCT? Or does the NCT just test whats in front of them and "ask no questions" kinda thing?

Nissan doctor

Damokc wrote: »

Ya, would this pass the NCT? Or does the NCT just test whats in front of them and "ask no questions" kinda thing?

Makes no odds, any insurance taken out on this as a 1.7 civic will not be worth the paper its written on.

Its not even the same car ffs never mind the same engine!

Damokc

Nissan doctor wrote: »

Makes no odds, any insurance taken out on this as a 1.7 civic will not be worth the paper its written on.

Its not even the same car ffs never mind the same engine!

That's what I thinking but thought it as a given. If said car drove into me would their insurance cover damage done to me but not the "Intevic" damage?

Nissan doctor

Damokc wrote: »

That's what I thinking but thought it as a given. If said car drove into me would their insurance cover damage done to me but not the "Intevic" damage?

Nope, it would be the same as being hit by an uninsured driver.

Damokc

Surely Revenue have one young lad they could sit at a PC and go trough DoneDeal etc. everyday. There's dozens of cars like this uploaded every day, if not EVERY HOUR!

Compton

they could... they could also do a lot of other easy things but they don't. Fat pigs.

Damokc

shblob wrote: »

they could... they could also do a lot of other easy things but they don't. Fat pigs.

Id do it for them for 20e a day and I'd definitely get at least 10 a day.:D

darragh o meara

There's a lot of cars around with incorrect details on the tax books. Starlet turbos, glanzas, imprezas & evo's to name but a few have all fell victim to this scam. A dealer from Dublin went to jail over it too iirc.

When I recently looked at a few evo's I found 7 out of the 10 I saw with wrong models on taxbook, some were down as 1.6 glx others were down as 2.0 gsr. It's the same with the imprezas most are down as non turbo models and lads think they can insure them as such. Ok the tax on a 2.0 be it non turbo or turbo is the same but that's it, insurance is null and void if you don't tell them what it really is, so no point in really paying out for it. As for starlets and glanza turbos, I don't think I've ever heard of one actually registered as a turbo.

I personally wouldn't touch any car that didn't have the proper details on the book as your only asking for trouble.by buying one.

As for revenue checking up on this, I don't think there is a whole like they can do about it, bar chasing up the person who initially
Vrtd the car.

Anything advertised as such is dodgy and all information passed to the cops.

GL scrappy

Where on the taxbook/registration cert should it say whether a car is turbo/non turbo?

Chriscl1

It doesn't but the insurer should know by the chassis code if they request it.