Yaris bonnet gap. Problem?

rosie383

Thank you very much for all the replies. Seems the general consensus is not to take the risk. We will take the advice. Again, many thanks.

securityguy

"Get the bonnet up and have a good look with a torch around the engine bay. "

Or better, stop wasting your time. There are a lot of Yarises (Yarii?) which don't have obvious symptoms of accident damage. Why bother trying to figure out if suspicious ones might be OK (a job that's very hard to do without a set of jigs) when there are plenty of honest ones? If you were looking for some exotic car which rarely comes on the market, maybe, but Yarises? There are zillions of them.

BeenThroughItAll

dogshome wrote: »

Yes - Walk away
I've vetted a few cars the kids wanted to buy and first thing is to check the number plates.
They should both show the name of the original supplying dealer, but as they are the first thing to go in a front or rear end shunt, the one at the damaged end will have been replaced with a pattern part that doesn't carry the dealers name

I replace the plates when I buy a car with non-advertising ones as a matter of course. And of course plates delaminate with age, or get stonechip cracks on the front, or ripped off by vandals, or, or...

One of the least conclusive checks one can do.

dogshome

One of least conclusive checks one can do ?

If you'd bothered to understand my post, you would have seen that the point of checking the plates front and back, was to see that they matched.

A dealer issued plate on the rear of the vehicle with a pattern plate on the front, is a strong indicater of a Front-end accident or vice versa - This could be due to nothing more than just a nudge against a fence post or something far worse, and should ring an alarm bell in the mind of any would be buyer at their first glance of the car.

securityguy

"I replace the plates when I buy a car with non-advertising ones as a matter of course."

And I would walk away from a car fitted with non-dealer plates, because there's plenty more cars. Yes, there are perfectly benign reasons why they might be fitted. But there's no situation where non-dealer plates are a good sign, and plenty where they are a bad sign, and there's lots of cars out there. It's not necessary that a means to check a car identify only hooky ones: it's OK if it identifies hooky ones and some false positives, within reason, as there are plenty of cars which won't be false positives.

BeenThroughItAll

securityguy wrote: »

"I replace the plates when I buy a car with non-advertising ones as a matter of course."

And I would walk away from a car fitted with non-dealer plates, because there's plenty more cars. Yes, there are perfectly benign reasons why they might be fitted. But there's no situation where non-dealer plates are a good sign, and plenty where they are a bad sign, and there's lots of cars out there. It's not necessary that a means to check a car identify only hooky ones: it's OK if it identifies hooky ones and some false positives, within reason, as there are plenty of cars which won't be false positives.

You've obviously never noticed the hundreds of cars with defective plates driving around, are you suggesting everyone should go back to the original supplying dealer if they need a new plate and pay through the nose for a new pair?

No one's ever walked away from one of my cars because they don't like the fact I don't have 'Joe Bloggs Audi' of whatever emblazoned on the plates to my knowledge, so you must be hyper sensitive.