How to buy a used car registered to dealer

kerten

I had a look at a car last week presumably owned by seller's daughter. Met in a car park, showed me the logbook, etc.

I ran motorcheck on car and it is registered to a dealer a month ago. Seller says they tried to sell via dealer first now decided to sell privately.

I guess guy is a side of the road trader and selling a trade in from the dealer which is not a big deal.

Does anyone know if i buy the car and sign back of the reg book as usual, am I going to receive the registration book on my name ?

punisher5112

kerten wrote: »

I had a look at a car last week presumably owned by seller's daughter. Met in a car park, showed me the logbook, etc.

I ran motorcheck on car and it is registered to a dealer a month ago. Seller says they tried to sell via dealer first now decided to sell privately.

I guess guy is a side of the road trader and selling a trade in from the dealer which is not a big deal.

Does anyone know if i buy the car and sign back of the reg book as usual, am I going to receive the registration book on my name ?

Yes it will be sent to your address.

Just make sure not to buy in a car park that's a big no no.

Check it out thoroughly.

colm_mcm

I would be very wary of a seller like that.

Link to the ad?

James Bond Junior

If the logbook is sent off as normal, it will be transferred to you. As Colm says be wary and make sure everything checks out especially mileage and history. Get a mechanic to look at it and remember that often a seller like that often knows all the local mechanics so may be in cahoots with the seller to go easy on the car etc in order to get a backhand. Don't tell your seller who the mechanic is or use one you absolutely trust.

Atlantic Dawn

He's likely someone buying and selling cars on the side, if he won't admit this from the outset walk away. Most likely car was traded in to dealer and was then sold on to him. Car could be stolen seeing as it's not in his name.

kerten

Thanks for the good advice here.

Motorcheck report is clean. I checked the car myself and it seemed to be a "looked after low mileage 10 years old trade in with service history" than a "dodgy car bought cheap and being sold after a short term fix".

You can never be %100 sure though. I am not planning to buy the car if he can't provide evidence of ownership.

the_syco

kerten wrote: »

I ran motorcheck on car and it is registered to a dealer a month ago. Seller says they tried to sell via dealer first now decided to sell privately.

Personally, I'd avoid it. Sounds like they're trying to get rid of a car that they very recently got, for an issue that the dealers warranty doesn't cover.

cerastes

Car dealer sells car privately where buyer might not realise this and if anything wrong seller has no rights or recourse? If I'm going to buy a car privately I'd expect to be getting it at private car prices.
Wondering myself about certain secondhand cars from dealers, what's a statutory warranty, see some offering no warranty or extended warranty on major components like gearboxes/engines, thought statutory warranty went much further and these are essentially a fob off if anything goes wrong?

Dravokivich

A dealer can't sell you a car with "no warranty," or "Sold as seen." If you ever see that nonsense from a dealer, just walk off.

I don't know if there is a minimum warranty or cover stipulated. But at the least my understanding is, the car should be in a reasonably fit condition.

ShadowHearth

IT already shows so many signs of NONO, why would you even bother with this car? I would walk away when there is already dodgy, shady stuff going on, I would wonder whats even worse with car itself?

pilly

If a trader doesn't tell you upfront that he deals in cars then stay a mile away from them. Not trustworthy.

cerastes

Dravokivich wrote: »

A dealer can't sell you a car with "no warranty," or "Sold as seen." If you ever see that nonsense from a dealer, just walk off.

I don't know if there is a minimum warranty or cover stipulated. But at the least my understanding is, the car should be in a reasonably fit condition.

They dont actually say no warranty, its just some of their other ads say 3 months warranty, or I believe its 3 months warranty engine and gearbox but then nothing about it on other ads. In most of them it says extended warranty available.
I thought a warranty was statutory, from what I recal, a lot of the cars being sold by that seller seemed ok from what you can tell online. The manner of the warranty/lack of any mention of it concerns me.

pilly

cerastes wrote: »

They dont actually say no warranty, its just some of their other ads say 3 months warranty, or I believe its 3 months warranty engine and gearbox but then nothing about it on other ads. In most of them it says extended warranty available.
I thought a warranty was statutory, from what I recal, a lot of the cars being sold by that seller seemed ok from what you can tell online. The manner of the warranty/lack of any mention of it concerns me.

If a car is over a certain age no dealer will offer a warranty on it. That's why the main dealers don't really sell the older cars. Too much risk involved in giving a warranty.