Evans Halshaw £98 HPI Checks

atrixblue.-MFR-.

if they tried charging you for HPI your part ex, i would pass this info on to trading standards.

Ibrox3

Evans Halshaw want to sell me a vehicle check as well. Salesman stated that it would protect me from such as a "log book loan".
However when I asked the dealership to provide a written policy document to declare exactly what it was I was going to be insured or indemnified against, they stated it was not insurance and they had no policy document! Clearly if someone is charging you £99 for a guarantee that you will not suffer any financial loss they have to be able to back that up with a written document.
I managed to get out of the dealer that it was not their guarantee but Experion's - a little digging tells me that Experions cover is available to me with a check for just £20. I guess I'll be declining the offer of a check then.

marlot

Ibrox3 wrote: »

I managed to get out of the dealer that it was not their guarantee but Experion's - a little digging tells me that Experions cover is available to me with a check for just £20. I guess I'll be declining the offer of a check then.

You don't even need to do that if you're buying from a dealer. They have a legal obligation to sell you a car with good title. HPI is a tool to help them fulfill their legal obligations. Why should you pay? Let alone their ripoff rate?

anotherbaldrick

The buyer is King; go sqrue em. Tell them to swallow the charge or you walk.

Lincoln_Imp

Tell them to expect a visit from Angela Rippon as you will reprot them to Rip off Britain

Flyboy152

marlot wrote: »

You don't even need to do that if you're buying from a dealer. They have a legal obligation to sell you a car with good title. HPI is a tool to help them fulfill their legal obligations. Why should you pay? Let alone their ripoff rate?

But still the point is, who on Earth trusts them enough to buy a car from them in the first place.

darrenwakey

this might sound daft but you never know?
if i go and by a car from these places and ask for finance,and the finance company say, "yes" ,everything is fine you can have the finance,then surely there is no outstanding finance on the car,then when you go to finalise the deal you turn round and say i dont want the finance i will pay with cash instead would this work.

madkitty

so should we still do a HPI ourselves as I have got EH to drop the fee?

forgotmyname

Take your business elsewhere and tell them why.

fivetide

madkitty wrote: »

so should we still do a HPI ourselves as I have got EH to drop the fee?

There should be no need, as said, the dealer has to provide a car with good title, that's why you are paying thema premium over buying private in the fisrt place.

However, they aren't that hidden. At our local EH all the cars have a sticker on the window saying that there will be an additional charge for the checks. Not that I'd pay it of course, it just isn't that well hidden if it is on the windscreen.