Is this Fraud ?

adandem

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

I have to disagree, anyone buying a car and not getting the garage to plainly tell you if the car is written off or not is a muppet - it's a large purchase and something that you should put a bit of care and consideration into.

I am quite a trusting person, the person who sold the car (garage owner) was also a work colleague. I had absolutely no reason to suspect that there was a hidden past to the car. I, like the OP's daughter was much younger and quite naive when it happened to me.


There are also thousands of 'write offs' on the road where insurance claims haven't been made. How do us 'muppets' detect those do you think?

hollydays

adandem wrote: »

I am quite a trusting person, the person who sold the car (garage owner) was also a work colleague. I had absolutely no reason to suspect that there was a hidden past to the car. I, like the OP's daughter was much younger and quite naive when it happened to me.


There are also thousands of 'write offs' on the road where insurance claims haven't been made. How do us 'muppets' detect those do you think?

I had a work colleague once who I had no reason to suspect would lie to me (but he was aware I knew very little about cars).
When I told him I was (genuinly) getting the AA to do look over the car he was trying to sell me, (his Fathers),his reply of "what do you want to do that for?",together with the look on his face,said it all.His Father was in one of those jobs ,and very senior,where honestly is paramount.
I later got a mechanic friend to look over it-it had been involved in a nasty prang which my colleague claimed to know nothing about...

Blacksheep1979

adandem wrote: »

There are also thousands of 'write offs' on the road where insurance claims haven't been made. How do us 'muppets' detect those do you think?

If you're not able to tell yourself then get a mechanic/AA/RAC to give it a look over.