Owner/Keeper of vehicle

tiamaria

Last year I bought a car for my ex as he needed one to commute to his new job. We had a contract made up and signed between us that he was going to pay me back £50 a week. I bought the car with cash I had taken out from my bank account that morning and I have a receipt from the previous owner with my name and address on it saying sold to me.

He paid me back some money but not all and still owes me some of it. It's come to my attention that he is looking to sell the car and buy another one.

Can he do this? he is the registered keeper but i am the owner. It's not a huge amount of money he still owes me but I Could really do with it at the moment. However he will make excuses and not be reasonable. Is there anything i can do to Stop him selling the car?

Silver-Surfer_2

Technically it's not his car to sell.

How far are you prepared to take this?

tiamaria

Not sure, I've seen many people try and fail to retrieve money he owes them!

Mojisola

tiamaria wrote: »

Can he do this? he is the registered keeper but i am the owner.

Is there anything i can do to Stop him selling the car?

Have you got a key for the car? If so, you could take the car back and sell it yourself.

tiamaria

No I don't have a key

JJ_Egan

You say a contract in that case take him to the small claims court .
But an LBA letter before action ( see mse/google ) may force repayment .

tiamaria

No point me splashing out on small claims court, people have tried before, bailiffs have chased him many time but come away empty handed. He is basically a law unto himself but it would stress him greatly if he thought he could lose the car,

A friend said I should tell the Police and the DVLA but would they even be interested?

rich13348

You could always take the car back as its yours and he has not paid all the money back. It may go back to court though.

DUTR

tiamaria wrote: »

No point me splashing out on small claims court, people have tried before, bailiffs have chased him many time but come away empty handed. He is basically a law unto himself but it would stress him greatly if he thought he could lose the car,

A friend said I should tell the Police and the DVLA but would they even be interested?

You know the right thing to do is to write off the loss, put it down to life experience and know in future BF's are not worth that kind of spend (neither are Gf's for that matter) , I doubt the police or dvla would be that interested, as things are not amiccable, lets say he was to return the car, don't you think he may thrash the pants off it and abuse it before returning it to you? It may not be saleable by the time you get it back.

maddogb

DUTR wrote: »

You know the right thing to do is to write off the loss, put it down to life experience and know in future BF's are not worth that kind of spend (neither are Gf's for that matter) , I doubt the police or dvla would be that interested, as things are not amiccable, lets say he was to return the car, don't you think he may thrash the pants off it and abuse it before returning it to you? It may not be saleable by the time you get it back.

are you her ex?
no one can really advise you here with so little detail to go on.
I'm assuming if the agreement was for £50 per week this is not to much of an old banger, you need to look at how much the car is worth how much is owed, how little hassle you want.


If it is worth your while contact the DVLA request a new registration doc for it, take that to the local dealers and get a new key made up for it. buy insurance and go pick it up let him make the moves legal wise.
As stated any advance warning and he may trash it.

DUTR

maddogb wrote: »

are you her ex?
no one can really advise you here with so little detail to go on.
I'm assuming if the agreement was for £50 per week this is not to much of an old banger, you need to look at how much the car is worth how much is owed, how little hassle you want.


If it is worth your while contact the DVLA request a new registration doc for it, take that to the local dealers and get a new key made up for it. buy insurance and go pick it up let him make the moves legal wise.
As stated any advance warning and he may trash it.

Nope I'm not her ex, I buy my own cars ta
The cheaper option is to write off the loss, as all other suggestions are going to be costly with no garauntee of success with money the OP doesn't have right now.