Need advice for my daughter

jane130

My Daughter is in the process of buying herself a new car . She is supposed to collect it tomorrow On calling her insurance company today and giving them the registration of the car it is coming up as an Astra when she is infact buying a tigra .

should she be concerned about this and does anyone know of anywhere I xan check on the cars history without paying for it ?

thanks

stef73

On the ford website you can enter your registration and it will give you model ,vin number spec, extras fitted you could try to see if vauxhall also do this on there website.

AdrianHi

Try entering the registration here http://www.webuyanycar.com/ and see what it identifies it as.
It could be a mistake on the database that insurance companies use but I think it wise to get this resolved.
Probably wise to do a HPI check anyway which costs about £20 and can be done in minutes online.

u01jet4

stef73, could you give the link to the ford website where you can enter the reg and get more details? I can't see it anywhere and it would be useful for me too!

Thank you

pendulum

What kind of place is she buying it from and is it genuinely a new car or is it just new to her but second hand?

If you go to www.askmid.com and enter the registration number of her car, it does show you the make/model according to their database.

Edit: had this tab open too long before replying and didn't see the replies above

stef73

u01jet4 wrote: »

stef73, could you give the link to the ford website where you can enter the reg and get more details? I can't see it anywhere and it would be useful for me too!

Thank you

http://www.etis.ford.com/vehicleRegSelector.do;jsessionid=D2B070E02776AD95EFBE88CF26691A6B.dulv0677

jane130

she is buying it from a major used car dealer in our area , and its 56 plate so just new to her .

jane130

thanks for the advice , have done an hpi check and Its not coming up as a vauxhall tigra but as make opel Model Blank but everything else about the car is correct .

dacouch

Is it a grey import by any chance?

Homersimpson

Have you definatly got the right reg no? dealers register batches of cars so you might find that if you are a couple of digits out its still a vauxhall but a different model, as an example the car 10 digits above mine (591 rather than 581) is still the same make but a different model.

jane130

thanks for your advice but on phoning her insurance company the quote has trippled now they know its a tigra not and astra so she won;t be buying after .