Where did your old car go?
Discussion
Does anyone else search the motor insurance database from time to time, or ebay or whatever means to find out where your old pride and joy's have gone?
I guess it's a bit like not long after breaking up with someone. You shouldn't care, you don't really care, but you almost don't want to see them around town with someone new, and for some reason you end up having a curious facebook stalk!
Sad, But I can remember the licence plates to all the cars I'd ever owned in the uk, waiting for some work to download so had a browse and amazingly not one out of 15 is insured. Possibly changed to private plates I guess but more than likely written off / sorn / scrapped.. Am I the only weirdo who checks?? Makes me wonder what the average lifespan of a car is in the UK too..
I guess it's a bit like not long after breaking up with someone. You shouldn't care, you don't really care, but you almost don't want to see them around town with someone new, and for some reason you end up having a curious facebook stalk!
Sad, But I can remember the licence plates to all the cars I'd ever owned in the uk, waiting for some work to download so had a browse and amazingly not one out of 15 is insured. Possibly changed to private plates I guess but more than likely written off / sorn / scrapped.. Am I the only weirdo who checks?? Makes me wonder what the average lifespan of a car is in the UK too..
WOW didn't realise that you could search MOT history - they must have brought that in after I moved. My stalkeration has entered new levels!
Interesting looking at a few of them -
94 Supra TT - Last Mot'd in 2009
Genuinely wanted to hunt that down and buy it back one day!
TVR Cerberra - Last MOT was the one I did in 2010 - missing, presumed in a hedge
MG ZT190 - Last MOT 2013, made it to 100,000 miles
My first car, Rover 414i - since I sold it in 2006 at 40,000 miles, made it to 85,000 and three attempts at the last MOT in 2010 which it eventually passed, with advisories of corrosion, oil leaks, cv joints, you name it - literally fell apart by the looks of it!
MG F 1996, eventually died in 2011 after scraping through the last two MOTs
Jag S type - made it the longest, up until 2014 whereit too fell apart - mostly corroded suspension mountingsat 90k miles
BMW 530 - made it to 2008 and 150k miles before vanishing
MG TF, pugeot 309 mi16 - worryingly 'this plate doesn't exist'
I find it fascinating as I buy and sell cars in Aus where it's harder to come across detailed history and cars seem to die at sub 100k in the UK whereas here they're barely run in (warmer, no salt on the roads, drier typically). It tends to be high kms and poor maintenance that ends them here.
Interesting looking at a few of them -
94 Supra TT - Last Mot'd in 2009
Genuinely wanted to hunt that down and buy it back one day!TVR Cerberra - Last MOT was the one I did in 2010 - missing, presumed in a hedge
MG ZT190 - Last MOT 2013, made it to 100,000 miles
My first car, Rover 414i - since I sold it in 2006 at 40,000 miles, made it to 85,000 and three attempts at the last MOT in 2010 which it eventually passed, with advisories of corrosion, oil leaks, cv joints, you name it - literally fell apart by the looks of it!
MG F 1996, eventually died in 2011 after scraping through the last two MOTs
Jag S type - made it the longest, up until 2014 whereit too fell apart - mostly corroded suspension mountingsat 90k miles
BMW 530 - made it to 2008 and 150k miles before vanishing
MG TF, pugeot 309 mi16 - worryingly 'this plate doesn't exist'
I find it fascinating as I buy and sell cars in Aus where it's harder to come across detailed history and cars seem to die at sub 100k in the UK whereas here they're barely run in (warmer, no salt on the roads, drier typically). It tends to be high kms and poor maintenance that ends them here.
Earthdweller said:
The MOT check will only search on a VRM and not the car
If a car disappears it may have been put in a different plate or have been exported , particularly if relatively young not necessarily dead
Good to know, probably explains where my TF went, it only had 6000 miles on it or so! If a car disappears it may have been put in a different plate or have been exported , particularly if relatively young not necessarily dead
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