Found out my car is on finance!!

1986mike

Hello,

ssaa does anyone know??

1986mike

i have read that i cant legally sell the car now aswell is this true??

d0nkeyk0ng

It may have been paid off but not the record not cleared. I'd speak to the person or company you bought it from in the first instance.

1986mike

d0nkeyk0ng wrote: »

It may have been paid off but not the record not cleared. I'd speak to the person or company you bought it from in the first instance.

i bought it from a private sale the problem is i lost my V5C I got a new one but the new one a few months ago but the DVLA dont put the details of the previous owner on the V5C anymore, however i can request the details of the previous owner from them if need be.

if the previous owner does not know anything about this issue what else would i be able to do? contact VW directly? if they have not been persueing the debt does it mean it has definitely been paid off ? or maybe they have stopped caring? either way would they be likely to clear the debt if i explain to them the situation? the car is worth very little now and i doubt it would be worth it for them to take it...

wgl2014

I would suggest just contacting VW finance. Likely to be a clerical error as much as anything else.

On a side note I think it is madness not to spend a few quid on an hpi check when buying a car privately.

Herzlos

1986mike wrote: »

i have got one of those reports online now and it states that it has outstanding finance from VW from 2008!

I doubt anyone is able to pay off a car over 10+ years, so it's almost certainly a clerical error. I'd phone VW and find out what's happening and if they can remove the marker.

kwame41

Sounds like a clerical error to me.


Never buy a car without doing a HPI check I think is the lesson to be learned going forward.


:-)