Firstly, this is not a for sale post. I need advice on something that has come up today.

I have a 55plate Mondeo ST TDCi for sale. A guy from Northern Ireland a coupe of weeks ago got in touch and I sent all the details, history, pictures he asked for over to him via email. Spoke regularly on the phone. Agreed a deal and to sell it to him for 4800 quid. He booked his flight and ferry crossing and let me know the details.

I have an email from him today from an Autocheck he has done, which has come back saying the car is classed as a CAT D writeoff. This data was added to the Experian database on January 15th this year. Now I owned the car then so got in touch with the buyer for more info. He gave me Autochecks number. I called them up and they advised that the car was involved in an accident in August 2007 (before I bought it) but for some reason the insurance company didn't update the database until January this year (18months later and now I do own it).

To say I was shocked was an understatement and the buyer is going to contact Autocheck later on this evening to get more info as they wouldn't tell me much else because I wasn't the purchaser of the report.

If he comes back to me, what do I do? I've told him he can walk away from this and no issues as I'm not trying to hide anything. I have a feeling he may come back and want it at a reduced price, but I am already selling it cheaply as I want it gone quick. Can someone give me some advice on how much realistically the car is worth now its classed as CAT D as I can't find much pricing for this sort of thing.

Bit gutted to be honest as its a bloody good car and I've never had an issue with it.

Picture of said beast.





Cheers

Matt