An older car that can only be repaired economically using S/H parts by a backstreet workshop or even the buyer. It’s simply. Car the owners has decided to sell as it is for whatever reason, many for sale on EBay and other sites
Unrecorded insurance write off.....what does that mean?
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Attleborough, Norfolk
I don't know. It has never officially been a 'write off' as only insurance can do this.
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I found out a little more today.
The car in question had an accident and was sold for salvage without an insurance claim. Apparently this was most likely because the car was either third party insured or not insured at all.
The car was bought from the salvage auction and repaired, then everything carries on as usual. It was recorded by the salvage auction but not by insurance, hence there is a record but the record is unrecorded. Mental.
HPi checks DO NOT pick this up, so beware people.
The car in question had an accident and was sold for salvage without an insurance claim. Apparently this was most likely because the car was either third party insured or not insured at all.
The car was bought from the salvage auction and repaired, then everything carries on as usual. It was recorded by the salvage auction but not by insurance, hence there is a record but the record is unrecorded. Mental.
HPi checks DO NOT pick this up, so beware people.
My God! That's dodgy! You sure it wasn't just quietly got rid of with a known issue through WBAC?
How very dare you!
Beware people!!
I did the right thing and told the nice man at WBAC about the coolant leak and he found the salvage issue himself.Beware people!!
So the car is going to be sold for about a fiver and only I have caught a cold with it. Happy?
Scotland 🏴
For that money couldn't you convert it into another Fauxrrai or maybe a Lameborghini
North West Surrey
That makes more sense now. Maybe WBAC have access to data from people like Copart?
It's certainly something to be aware of anyway.
There are car checking facilities such as https://www.vcheck.uk/ that collect all the data from salvage yards.
It is also common for cars to have been officially written off by the insurance company and the cars sold on to salvage yards, but the insurance company fail to register the car as a write off.
This Facebook page used to post a lot of examples.
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