V5, write off query.

[Hammer67]

Am in the market for a cheap van, found a likely looking candidate at a local car sales site. Arranged to view it, before I left home I did a quick online history check whereby it came up as a Cat C write off with extensive damage.

I texted the salesman cancelling the viewing and stating the Cat C as the reason. He then phoned me back denying the Cat C status as "There is no marker on the V5 so it cannot be a Cat C"

I've never heard of that before, anyone know the score?

[cartoons]

Commercial vehicles which are cat c don't need a vic check to go back on the road, so there won't be anything on the v5 like there will be if a car is repaired. Looks like he should be checking vans out better when he buys them in!

[rotarymazda]

Hammer67 said:

Am in the market for a cheap van, found a likely looking candidate at a local car sales site. Arranged to view it, before I left home I did a quick online history check whereby it came up as a Cat C write off with extensive damage.

I texted the salesman cancelling the viewing and stating the Cat C as the reason. He then phoned me back denying the Cat C status as "There is no marker on the V5 so it cannot be a Cat C"

I've never heard of that before, anyone know the score?

Cat C is a classification on the HPI Condition Alert Register. When it is assigned, the insurer send off the V5 and it gets marked as requiring a VIC inspection.

After the VIC inspection, the V5 marker can be removed. However, it is still a cat C on the HPI Condition Alert Register.

[dingg]

as Cartoons says above

commercial cat c vehicles do not need a VIC and the v5 will not be marked as cat c

[Hammer67]

Thanks chaps, all is clear now.