The wonderful sparkly Elite Christmas thread of love, dreams and glitches ©

David.

Anyone know the best car check type service/website.
As in been in crash/wrote off, hpi or whatever.

Found a car for eldest on Friday had a mechanic look it over on Saturday, due to pick it up Wednesday or so after mot and few scuffs etc sorted.
Happy with it but just thought might be worth doing :cool:

RootedNomad

Westvleteren wrote: »

Ok, change of location, but this is a bit more.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8KZN8-fdcw


:rotfl:

.... a bit more?

all I can say is that the gorgeous blonde lead singer is totally wasted strumming that particular instrument :rotfl:

rose28454

DD's friend came last night and she recently started at T as a supervisor. She knows about DTD and wombling and told me to look out tommorow as a lot of promotions end tonight. Might be worth a look in the morning. i will have to go early as off to Costco with Mum and my 2 sisters. Anyone know of any good offers there at the moment?

princessmelody2009

kezbratt wrote: »

Mrs_stinkface wrote: »

I've just had a look on net mums and its got some great advice. Thanks.

Evening all. I agree there can be some good advice but I find them worse than the darkside...just watch out for judgmental and "perfect" mums on there who seem hell bent on making others feel inadequate

:eek: luckily I have not encountered this on my London group; they are area specific but that's awful, the whole point is to be a supportive network for other mums

wendyak

David. wrote: »

Anyone know the best car check type service/website.
As in been in crash/wrote off, hpi or whatever.

Found a car for eldest on Friday had a mechanic look it over on Saturday, due to pick it up Wednesday or so after mot and few scuffs etc sorted.
Happy with it but just thought might be worth doing :cool:

None of the cheap ones give outstanding hp, you have to use an hpi type thing for that.........found that out the hard way:(
depends on how new the car is, if its a basic run around its unlikely it has hp, as long as you get sight of the log book and it checks with the address you visit etc.

ok I'll come clean...
am in the cartrade and wanted to buy a car from a friend of a friend who didn't have the log book.
Did a basic check as I knew them (sort of) and hpi is expensive......the log book was with log book loans and I had applied and got the log book from dvla with no probs as compeltley unaware of the scam.
After about three months a man knocked on the door early in the morning, he had clamped the car and had a lorry standing by.
At this point most people would have lost the car, but as I have several strapping sons and a stroppy OH they moved cars to within an inch of either end of the car and advised that if any damage occured they would sue.
We negoitiated with the loan company and had to pay £300 to remove the charge on the car.........
moral of this story is, anyone can get caught.

ma-ri-ella

Trolleyboy wrote: »

No, but it associates all transactions made with it. It's just my paranoia, I'm sure the SADA police would never check.

giftcard transactions are looked at daily for things like random amounts going on/coming off .i think its flagged aswell if a card is used loads aswell

lawrie28

David. wrote: »

Anyone know the best car check type service/website.
As in been in crash/wrote off, hpi or whatever.

Found a car for eldest on Friday had a mechanic look it over on Saturday, due to pick it up Wednesday or so after mot and few scuffs etc sorted.
Happy with it but just thought might be worth doing :cool:

No idea cost wise, but i would go with the aa or rac names you can trust and fall back on should they be wrong. They all searchbthe same databases as far as i know.

princessmelody2009

QPR10 wrote: »

It doesnt stick in my mind so I've obviously been to worse places MILLWALL ! :eek:

My mister had a part-time job there as a Matchday Steward before he got his full-time job! In fairness he is from Bermondsey so he never had any trouble

pattylabelle

sian22 wrote: »

just popping in to say hello to everyone I am tired tonight my dd and her bf decided to give me a surprise visit dds bf wanted to fit a new lock on my door so me and dd went shopping definataly not a mse day for me as bought some stuff for dds dresser but it was soo nice spending time with her and I cherish every moment.dd may not get up to see me until march now so was so sad to see her leave but I love seeing her so happy.hope everyone is feeling good and hugs for those who dont:j

Can we keep you company til she comes back?:D

David.

wendyak wrote: »

None of the cheap ones give outstanding hp, you have to use an hpi type thing for that.........found that out the hard way:(
depends on how new the car is, if its a basic run around its unlikely it has hp, as long as you get sight of the log book and it checks with the address you visit etc.

Its from a garage and an 04 plate 1 owner, mate is happy all the paperwork tallys up just wondered seen as its my sons first car would hate for something to go wrong.
Dont imagine there would be any outstanding finance thinking about it now.