Bought a Stolen Car without Knowing it

LeeSouthEast

The fact the police left the car with you suggests something is not quite as it seems.

jaks111

this happened to us many many years ago we bought it from a private sale in a newspaper had hpi report done there and then through a advert in the auto trader it came back clear was only when we came to sell it the man that was interested in buying it was a trader checked it out and said it was still on hp we said no its not we have a report here luckily we kept everything from the advert down to the receipt hpi report etc any way after a few weeks when we proved we bought it legit and had a hpi report done that was clear we were allowed to keep it i think it was the insurance company not to sure as it was years ago
some slip through the system on hpi reports i think its to do with some on buying it then re selling it on quickly thats what we were told

good luck hope you get on okay

jacki

flawless101

An insurance company has already paid out for the theft of the car - so I guess the car belongs to them and not an individual.

The police left the vehicle with me but made me sign a statement saying that I would not try to sell the car and I would be committing an offence if I did.

I rang the dealer yesterday and he just thought it was funny and even tried to deny he had sold me the car though I have the paperwork to prove it.

This makes a mockery of having an HPI check done as if the vehicle has been stolen but not yet recorded as stolen, then the HPI check will show a clear.

I am already in the middle of sueing the dealer as he falsified the service history of the car before selling it to me - he stamped the service book with false BMW Sytner service stamps showing a full service history when there wasn't one.

That was small claims court, I guess that now it has to go to the county court as I need to sue for the cost of the car and all the extra I have spent on it.

I am doing the honest thing by contacting the Insurance Company involved tomorrow and having a heart to heart.

I guess the worst case scenario would be that I would have to buy the vehicle from the insurance company (as my children love the car) - then I would have paid for the vehicle twice

hollydays

I am sure the advice from a solicitor would be NOT to speak to the dealer at all,how can you be sure he is not implicated in the theft.
Surely the stuff about the Sytner stamps is a matter for Trading Standards.

roddydogs

Would u care to name the "Dealer"?

flawless101

I won't name him yet as I need to speak to my solicitor first.

Trading Standards are useless. I supplied them with all the paper work for the forged service book - including a letter from Sytners that they had not carried out the the last service even though their name was in the book - but Trading Standards did nothing.

hollydays

Have you asked them why they haven't done anything? The reason?

flawless101

I have rang them a number of times but they won't tell me anything.
Maybe they think this is not a big enough fish for them.

hollydays

Maybe the Police are involved with the dealer.I mean they are investigating him.

omen666

The police do leave people with the vehicles in some of these cases and then send round a police vehicle examiner and then take it