Sold a stolen car, advice please

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  • Geodark
    Geodark Posts: 1,048 Forumite
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    If it was stolen, how could you have got the V5?
  • AndyMc.....
    AndyMc..... Posts: 3,248 Forumite
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    Geodark wrote: »
    If it was stolen, how could you have got the V5?

    Lax practices at the DVLA.
  • Geodark
    Geodark Posts: 1,048 Forumite
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    AndyMc..... wrote: »
    Lax practices at the DVLA.

    Really? I thought all this would have been computerised, so unless the V5 was stolen at the same time as the car how could a new one have been obtained? Bit worrying if it is as simple as filling out a form with DVLA to get a new form issued and no checks made.
  • AndyMc.....
    AndyMc..... Posts: 3,248 Forumite
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    Geodark wrote: »
    Really? I thought all this would have been computerised, so unless the V5 was stolen at the same time as the car how could a new one have been obtained? Bit worrying if it is as simple as filling out a form with DVLA to get a new form issued and no checks made.

    They delete records as and when they see fit. A recent example is all those who have lost additional entitlements from their licences.
  • toshkininny
    toshkininny Posts: 1,189 Forumite
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    Hi, no we didn't do any checks. Because I naively thought that buying from a garage covered us on that sort of thing - I would have done a check buying privately, but didn't realise we'd have to do our own because I thought garages carry out their own checks before selling.
  • Homersimpson
    Homersimpson Posts: 420 Forumite
    I bought a stolen recovered car from a salvage yard (no damage, taken with keys), it said that it was reported stolen on the HPI check but nothing about it being recovered.

    I rang the police who advise that it was listed as having been recovered and they had no further interest in it.

    It does massively impact the value though, the car I bought was a 5year old X-Type diesel and it cost me 2k in 2011, similar cars without the stolen recovered marker were going for 4-5k.
    I have a lot of problems with my neighbours, they hammer and bang on the walls sometimes until 2 or 3 in the morning - some nights I can hardly hear myself drilling ;)
  • toshkininny
    toshkininny Posts: 1,189 Forumite
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    Thanks so do you think the likes of We Buy Any Car would have used this information to devalue the car even further ?
  • motorguy
    motorguy Posts: 22,473 Forumite
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    toshkininny wrote: »
    Thanks so do you think the likes of We Buy Any Car would have used this information to devalue the car even further ?

    Is the real issue here not that you are potentially driving about in a stolen car? You need to get that bottomed out and the marker removed
  • toshkininny
    toshkininny Posts: 1,189 Forumite
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    That has been removed now through the HPI, as they contacted the insurance company .
  • Johno100
    Johno100 Posts: 5,259 Forumite
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    toshkininny wrote: »
    That has been removed now through the HPI, as they contacted the insurance company .

    So it was a stolen recovered vehicle then?
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