Trading Standards want to talk to me about my car?

motorguy

Joe_Horner wrote: »

But he may well have sold other cars from his kitchen without admitting he's a trader (one for me, one for the tax man, one for me....) and been caught out.

In any case, if it was anyting for the OP to worry about (stolen / ringer etc) then it would have been the police rather than Trading Standards contacting him.

Into semantics now.

Very unlikely that he could pick and chose on autotrader that sometimes you're trade and sometimes you're not. They were clamping down hard on that even 10 years ago when i would have used them.

To not declare to the taxman doesnt mean you simply dont put 'trade' in your advert.

Xandros

They eventually got back to me, if any of you are interested, apparently the guy had sold a couple of cars without telling the owners they were cat. D write-off's and people had complained.

I think the only reason they actually contacted me was because my car had shown up as being a category D write-off as well and they thought I might be in the same boat as the people that complained...

As it turns out though (and as I explained when they told me the date it was flagged as being a write-off), I was the one who wrote it off, a few months after I bought it. I got it repaired though and still drive it so I it's fair enough that it looked like I was driving one such dodgy car.

It was nice of them to actually go to the trouble to contact me actually, since for all I knew I could have been driving a death trap for the last two years.