Just been out to look at a car for MIL. A 15 month old car priced cheap, one lady owner, 4000 miles, and from looking around the car and a quick ride in it looked fine.
However, the V5 had a different name and address (address in a town 40 miles away) to that of the person selling, "It's my aunties, and she is out of the country for a few weeks, but asked me to sell her car, she will sign the V5 when she comes back", no written confirmation of this, and the V5 also has a taxation class of Disabled.
If the guy was honest, he seemed to be doing everything possible to give the opposite impression.
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sounds like a motabillity car thats being sold off in a dodgy deal if you have the registration call motability on 0845 456 4566 explain your suspicions and see if it actually belongs to them and is on their system if it is then its more then likely stolen
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Clearly you have misgivings. You know what to do.
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I already knew what to do, you couldn't see me for dust.
It just amused me that either it was an honest seller who was so naive that he couldn't see that what he was doing was suspicious, or a dishonest seller who wasn't bothered about putting up a good front, and was just relying on the cheap price of the car to overcome anybody's doubts.
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Did you HPI it ?
It, may, be very much of an innocent abroad (well his aunt anyway)
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Did you HPI it ?
I was going to, but even if it had come back clean I would have still walked away, so there didn't seem much point.
Also to benefit from the HPI guarantee "if you are buying the vehicle privately, you must buy it from the keeper, at the address shown on the V5. You must also check the identity of the seller." which obviously I wasn't and couldn't.
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You will spend hours sitting in a local DVLA office with tons of paperwork just to get it changed from disabled class to PLG.
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didnt with the ex motability car I bought for my mother.
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Lucky you. My parents bought an ex mobilty car from a large car supermarket that still had tax on it. What a load of messing about to get the tax changed. I gave the seller short shift for not making it clear they were buying an ex mobility. Frankly, I wouldn't have touched it with a barge pole.
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Lucky you. My parents bought an ex mobilty car from a large car supermarket that still had tax on it. What a load of messing about to get the tax changed. I gave the seller short shift for not making it clear they were buying an ex mobility. Frankly I wouldn't have touched it with a barge pole.
Presume you can not take advantage of any VED in this sort of example? Would it not therefore be up to the car supermarket to change the taxation class when they sent the V5 away? Maybe I had it easy then when I had to change the taxation class but it was only a 5 minute job at the local DVLA office.
Not that I'd want to be in a DVLA office at the end of a month though!!!
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You will spend hours sitting in a local DVLA office with tons of paperwork just to get it changed from disabled class to PLG.
Not so, took me about 5 mins. Take original V5 (though I admit not sure how that works if just bought the car and the has been sent away....). One form to change taxation class, show your insurance cert (and MOT if applicable) then pay up for 6/12 months VED.
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You will spend hours sitting in a local DVLA office with tons of paperwork just to get it changed from disabled class to PLG.
Not my experience getting a cherished reg onto a retention cert and off again, why should getting tax class changed be so difficult?
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It's not - I've spent more time waiting my turn than actually processing seemingly complex changes at LVLO - they're very efficient !
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I breaks my golden rule.
Does the car
the owner,
the house,
and log book
all exist at the same place?
That is what a 'normal' person does.
Buys a car, registers it at Swansea, parks it outside, and lives in the house. In years of buying cars this has always served me well. I broke it once, when I had 'car fever' and just wanted a car, because I wanted a car.
Total failure. I now do not even go and look at a car that does not meet this rule.
Last car was a 'normal, straight' guy. Nice house, family, log book, paperwork etc. Car is a normal nice straight car.
If it smells odd.......it is.
Edited by MW on 03/01/2009 at 15:36
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Two things.
If it is a Motability car, the person would not have the V5 - this is retained by Motability for the duration of the lease, usually 3 years.
Look at the Tax disc. If it states "DVLA Fleet" then this is issued by Motability - unlikely in this case because of the V5. You can have a disabled tax disc and not have a Motability car.
Otherwise, as others have said, walk away.
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I had a couple of motability cars up to 2003. Both the V5 docs were in my name and address and in my posession.. This may have changed since tho' Just done a change of class from PLG to Disabled at the Manchester office. No queue, met by a 'greeter' who asked me what I wanted to do, Shown straight away to a desk clerk who processed all my docs...tried to answer an unrelated query for me and then sent me to another counter to collect my new tax disc. In there about 10 mins, really friendly and no queues after me.
Would,' bother with this one tho'
Ted
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my motability car was in my name and address on the V5 for 6 months the dealer messed up on the VED and had to change it and the V5 went onto my name not motability took months to put it right
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Not always the case MW, one of my vehicles is registered to my place of work as it's a company vehicle. I wouldn't sell it from my place of work though, I'd sell it from home. One of my golden rules is not to bother replying to ads that only give a mobile phone no.
Edited by captain chaos on 04/01/2009 at 00:06
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and does anybody buy the selling point " one lady owner" if my misses offered to sell her car to me i would definitely walk away
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I know a hapless punter who fell for the one lady owner trick - turned out she was Laura Ashley (PLC)
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...and the chintz upholstery didn't give it away?
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