Cat B car back on the road and for sale?

westernpromise

As it's an Audi it's probably been crashed 5 or 6 more times by now.

facade

westernpromise wrote: »

As it's an Audi it's probably been crashed 5 or 6 more times by now.

Audi drivers don't crash very often. They see lots of accidents though.........:D

motorguy

facade wrote: »

A check of the MOT history might be interesting.;)

I cant do an MOT history check because its registered here in NI.

BUT its just went through MOT on the 23rd July there and has been on the road up to that point (tax expired 31st July 18)

motorguy

westernpromise wrote: »

As it's an Audi it's probably been crashed 5 or 6 more times by now.

Probably driven in to by a Honda driver on cruise control.

:rotfl:

Geodark

Joe_Horner wrote: »

You'd face three problems buying it.

The first is insuring it - Flux will consider them but options are going to be very limited unless you self-insure.

The second - and more important - is satisfying yourself that whatever repairs were needed have been done properly.

Finally, since they removed the need for VIC checks in Oct '15, you'd also need to be satisfied that it isn't a ringer. Given what proper repair of a cat B is likely to entail, poor repair or ringing are both real possibilities.

Have they really got rid of VIC? I didnt know that. In that case, as you said, surely the makes it easier to get rid of ringers?

And no, I didnt check the date on the posts and hadn't realised that it was a resurrected thread haha.

canstantic

Motorextreme said:

As a motor dealer of repute with over 35 years in the business, and at the top end of the scale i say this, Joe Horner is indeed correct, the codes for Cat B are indeed voluntary between insurers, and D.V.L.A. and their is "no written law" to say a Category B vehicle cannot be returned to the road, the reason so very few actually are is because they are usually so extensively damaged and regular every day vehicles that it is simply not worth the cost or time to reinstate. However ..... in the case of say a Top of the range Mercedes, Ferrari, Porsche etc: the very value of the vehicle itself may deem it to be worth repairing to the highest of standards, indeed as i write this in August 2018, a 2012 new generation Porsche 911 Carrera is being advertised on Ebay motoring for £30,000 (over half the price cheaper than a non damage example) and is Insured, Taxed, and MOT'd and being used daily .... I am always amazed at so called "online" experts who pass on heresay information without actually checking the legality of such facts, whether you agree or not is immaterial, You CAN, should you so desire return a Cat B to the road, and yes, Adrian Flux WILL i insure it, none of it will be completely straight forward as so few people really understand the law surrounding this process, but the question started out as as "Can You return a Cat B to the road " .....well the real answer if you want to be completely within the law, but outside of most people's comprehension as to why you would ? ....is a Yes.....half price Porsche anyone ?

What’s the process for getting them back on the road?

AdrianC

Geodark said:

Have they really got rid of VIC? I didnt know that. In that case, as you said, surely the makes it easier to get rid of ringers?

They got rid of it nearly five years ago.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-vic-scheme

In the whole time it operated, it found 40 "ringers" out of 916,000 cars checked.

DoaM

You're replying to a thread that's been dead for nearly 2 years.

motorguy

Thought i recognised the thread!  

Saw another funny one yesterday going through - "Vehicle recorded as DVLA scrapped marker on HPI condition register".  That was on a very nice looking 2016 Mercedes C Class Estate too.  Not sure what has happened there.

canstantic

DoaM said:

You're replying to a thread that's been dead for nearly 2 years.

Do you know, how I can get a Cat b back onto the road?x