Vanquish - crashed

[bobcanada]

I consider an official inspection at an AM dealer to be cheap insurance (even at around $500). One of these inspections prevented me from making a $65,000 mistake on a 2006 V8V that was misrepresented by the vendor.

[Andrew Bristow]

I had a report done on this car, the damage was obvious. The dealer assured me that the vehicle had not been in an accident and that it was HPI clear. The repairs were incomplete and the body work was very second rate. If anyone wants to see the report send me an email.Signed Andrew

[smileymikey]

I've got an email from them, stating that they had had the vehicle checked by Aston Martin and no damage found whatsoever.Again happy to forward it to any interested parties.

[runninglow]

Well done for this alert . Please can you post the chassis number of this car or the full VIN number if you have it from an inspection report? It won't be so easy to spot when it next turns up for sale on dateless registration plates.

[yeti]

Jasper Gilder said:

5 Owners in 9 years would make me wonder.....

I never understand that, why would it worry anyone..? I never even ask, just find it irrelevant. Does it mean it was a dog passed on from owner to owner, or just owned by a series of people scratching an Aston itch? Neither scenario is more likely than the the other. Iowned my DB7 for just over a year, did i sellit because it was a dog? No, I just moved to a DB9.

A car with one owner might be a dog, with the owner never bothering to get anything but the minimum fixed to keep it driveable.

Buy on condition and verifiable service history (a soecialist/dealer you can call and chat to), not how many people owned it previously!

[F1 NDW]

runninglow said:

Well done for this alert . Please can you post the chassis number of this car or the full VIN number if you have it from an inspection report? It won't be so easy to spot when it next turns up for sale on dateless registration plates.

Reg YE03 TUZ
Chassis No B500845

And its still for sale at the same place.
Just wanted to put this back at the front of the Forum in case some poor unsuspecting soul is thinking about buying and decides to do some research.

[cayman-black]

Andrew Bristow said:

I had a report done on this car, the damage was obvious. The dealer assured me that the vehicle had not been in an accident and that it was HPI clear. The repairs were incomplete and the body work was very second rate. If anyone wants to see the report send me an email.Signed Andrew

Good info Andrew,this is unbelievable!

[AMFan]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2028884/Fe...

Looks like not all cars that have been involved in an accident are steered away from!

Difference please?

Time to stop the witch hunt me thinks......

[CarbonV12V]

AMFan said:

Difference please?

Mmm....let's think about that one. How about nearly £10m in value, a one off prototype and originally restored by the manufacturer not some general bodyshop

[Lunablack]

AMFan said:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2028884/Fe...

Difference please?

Are you serious??
For a starters the history is well documented and no one is trying to hide anything....
Then there's the fact of.... Where will you find another one?
On top of that it's an automotive legend....

AMFan said:

Time to stop the witch hunt me thinks......

Time to stop the witch hunt when the seller tells the truth.......

[Jockman]

AMFan said:

...Time to stop the witch hunt me thinks......

Time to declare any self interest methinks aussi

[smileymikey]

I contacted the seller after!! he had been made aware of its accident damage and subsequent bad repair. He continued to claim ignorance and repeated that the vehicle had been specialist inspected and given a clean bill of health. This communication was by email and I still have the copies.

Its one thing him making a genuine mistake, its an entirely different issue selling a very expensive car as good, when you know it has been in a significant accident. I had also sent him the photographs of the car at the time of the accident that are shown at the start of this thread.

[V8LM]

If you talk to the specialist that did the inspection, as Mr Bristow will confirm, he will give you a completely different story to the one the seller is trying to pass off.

[Zod]

LordBretSinclair said:

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.
Donald Rumsfeld

That always seemed to me to be a perfectly rational statement.

[AMFan]

So if the car is rare and of a high enough value then the principal becomes less valid and can be easily put aside?

Do we know who carried out the repair - works service?

Seems to be a classic case of a little bit of info is dangerous and the Internet gives a lot of people a little bit of info!

[V8LM]

Principles are different here: one is a Le Mans raced ultra rare car that had a garage fire and underwent a full restoration AND sold as such; pedigree warts and all. The other is a car (one of many) that was crashed, repaired poorly by whom I (and most others) know not, and being sold without any mention of its history AND misrepresentation of what the inspection pointed out.

[Lunablack]

AMFan said:

So if the car is rare and of a high enough value then the principal becomes less valid and can be easily put aside?

Do we know who carried out the repair - works service?

Seems to be a classic case of a little bit of info is dangerous and the Internet gives a lot of people a little bit of info!

Give it up bud..... You're so far off the mark you're comparing apples with carrots....