Any rights after being sold a write off

noddybrown

Just about to part ex a 2000 vauxhall corsa we have had since 2001,got aphone call from firm we are buying off and part exchanging the corsa to say it was a cat b write off in late 2000 when 4 months old, do w have any rights to claim from the company that sold it us or the firm that bought out that company.

any help gratefully recieved


stephen

gazfocus

Would highly doubt it after 12 years.

artbaron

It's illegal to sell a cat B car but I doubt a claim 12 years later will get you anywhere. It's worth next to nothing anyway so I'd advise you to just be glad it didn't fall apart and kill you, and move on.

Joe_Horner

That doesn't sound likely. Have they offered to still take it off your hands at a reduced trade in?

Cat B on a 4 month old car would be VERY heavy damage and DVLA wouldn't issue a new V5 without a VIC check. That check will be shown on your registration document as "substantially repaired and/or accident damaged; identity checked on dd/mm/ccyy".

If your V5 isn't marked like that then either it wasn't written off or you bought it before DVLA were notified by the insurers who wrote it off. In that case there'll be a current VIC marker on the DVLA file and they won't have sent you any tax remonders over the past 12 years.

You can check if there's an open marker by going to https://www.taxdisc.direct.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/app/enquiry?execution=e1s1 and clicking "vehicle enquiry" on the left of the page.

paddedjohn

Are you sure it's not a cat c?

colino

It wouldn't have been a Cat B, but did you finance the car at the time? If you did I'm surprised the HP company didn't flag up the discrepancy then.

fivetide

Have they put the right registration in? Has been known!

motorguy

noddybrown wrote: »

Just about to part ex a 2000 vauxhall corsa we have had since 2001,got aphone call from firm we are buying off and part exchanging the corsa to say it was a cat b write off in late 2000 when 4 months old, do w have any rights to claim from the company that sold it us or the firm that bought out that company.

any help gratefully recieved


stephen

Im curious as to what you might expect your rights to be after 12 years of ownership??

mattyprice4004

12 years? This is a wind up, right?

zappahey

First post.....check
Ridiculous scenario....check
wind up....check

withabix

Assuming this isn't a win-up, it is NOT illegal to put a Cat B write-off back on the road.

It requires a VOSA VIC inspection before it can be however.

If the OP has a V5 and has been taxing the car for the last 12 years, it must have been passed by VOSA.