impounded car - quick question
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i've just seen an ad for a car that has got me thinking - it's nothing special at all but one i've been looking for as a cheap daily hack and need some legal-ish advice on my thinking
vendor says it was seized as he couldn't prove insurance - he can't afford release fee (?) and is offering the car, the V5 and his bill of sale for approx 50% current market value. buyer pays release fee and any storage costs but it would still be cheap enough if i moved quickly on it.
if i pitch up with the release fee, receipt from current RK, the new keeper supplement and proof of my own insurance would they release it to me ? a quick google seems to be suggesting that they would but i am totally unversed in these things so offer up the Q for some advice
or.., is there not a bargepole long enough?
paul
vendor says it was seized as he couldn't prove insurance - he can't afford release fee (?) and is offering the car, the V5 and his bill of sale for approx 50% current market value. buyer pays release fee and any storage costs but it would still be cheap enough if i moved quickly on it.
if i pitch up with the release fee, receipt from current RK, the new keeper supplement and proof of my own insurance would they release it to me ? a quick google seems to be suggesting that they would but i am totally unversed in these things so offer up the Q for some advice
or.., is there not a bargepole long enough?
paul
i'm not overly concerned about the untested, "as is where is" nature of the sale. i know the marque and model well and the MoT history seems to suggest a degree of care in it's past.
i have a well equipped mobile tool box (cell 'phone and AA card) so as long as it could drag it's sorry ass out of the yard i'll be good !!
will call the vendor in the morning and get the details of where it's being held and speak to the pound to make sure it still exists - it didn't occur to me that it might have already been cubed but seems to have been seized within the last week so should still be there
paul
i have a well equipped mobile tool box (cell 'phone and AA card) so as long as it could drag it's sorry ass out of the yard i'll be good !!
will call the vendor in the morning and get the details of where it's being held and speak to the pound to make sure it still exists - it didn't occur to me that it might have already been cubed but seems to have been seized within the last week so should still be there
paul
swampy - it's just a saab aero ss but it's the model and spec i'd been looking for.
seems the owner's taking some kind of interest in it's fate as the ad's been updated to reflect that it's now accruing storage fees. as suggested above, the ad now states that they're trying to recoup some of their costs to date (which will now include the driving without insurance fine i guess). there's a lot of detail about alleged mix-ups and omissions with the insurer but that might just be padding.
vendor states payment to (her?) once the car is released and has listed what appears to be a plausible procedure for getting it out of the pound.
it was the insurance i had wondered about - the intention would have been to buy it and use it as my main driver on it's own policy until it died. almost a years MoT so i would (as usual) just have rolled the dice on any catastrophic mechanical failure
it's shed money even with all current fees paid so it could end up at around half price but only a few hundred in it now that storage is kicking in tbh
regards
paul
seems the owner's taking some kind of interest in it's fate as the ad's been updated to reflect that it's now accruing storage fees. as suggested above, the ad now states that they're trying to recoup some of their costs to date (which will now include the driving without insurance fine i guess). there's a lot of detail about alleged mix-ups and omissions with the insurer but that might just be padding.
vendor states payment to (her?) once the car is released and has listed what appears to be a plausible procedure for getting it out of the pound.
it was the insurance i had wondered about - the intention would have been to buy it and use it as my main driver on it's own policy until it died. almost a years MoT so i would (as usual) just have rolled the dice on any catastrophic mechanical failure
it's shed money even with all current fees paid so it could end up at around half price but only a few hundred in it now that storage is kicking in tbh
regards
paul
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