Catagory D writ off

colino

Its nice and simple, buy a car from a member of the public and you have to very thoroughly check it out and ask all of the questions. Buy from a trader and if he doesn't tell you something important, like its a Cat C or D then he is deceiving by omission.

marlot

colino wrote: »

Its nice and simple, buy a car from a member of the public and you have to very thoroughly check it out and ask all of the questions. Buy from a trader and if he doesn't tell you something important, like its a Cat C or D then he is deceiving by omission.

I want t believe you. Can you point to the law which says the dealer is required to tell you that the car he's selling is cat c or cat d?

bigjl

marlot wrote: »

I want t believe you. Can you point to the law which says the dealer is required to tell you that the car he's selling is cat c or cat d?

I suspect that it may come under Trading Standards remit, as a recorded car has a lower value than one that is unrecorded, even if they are both repiared to the same standard.

I would think that any car that has been repaired to insurance standards would be regarded as any othe rcar so I susoect that the dealer wouldn't need to disclose that it has been repairs.


Though in the situation of the OP, a Porsche Carrera would be devalued if it has damage repaired at anywhere other than Porsche. As I already stated it isn't unusual for expensive Porsches to be sent to Germany to be repaired in the factory.


This is one reason why even a slightly damaged Carrera can be written off to Cat D standards so easily, if the insurance company used an approved repairer with such a specialised car it could devalue the car, so they do get written off easier than you may think.

colino

Have a look for the 2008 Unfair Trading legislation. That's what TS round here use to hammer the lowlife competition. (In this case, if it was a garage, carrying out an unfair commercial practice by msleading by omission a material fact about the car).

vaio

I suspect that's the legislation I was thinking about but the OP bought the car before it came in so no real help