Another reader was considering a distance buy from a company specialising in selling reposessions. This seemed foolhardy to me. You need to do your own HPI check because a check done by the vendor is not guaranteed to you.

You need to make sure you get all the keys otherwise the person from whom the car was repossessed may still have one and could trace the car and take it back. And you need a guarantee that there is no logbook loan type of mortgage on the car which HPI cannot check for.