thanks to another memeber i have jsut though of another question about insurance write offs?
where abouts can you buy them from simple i know but have asways wanted to know as im sure you could find some lovely cars fords) that arnt to badly damaged as cat c or d
so an help would be good

 

Auctions mostly i would say,maybe some breakers that the insurance companies use to collect the cars

 

search copart on google thats where mine went. lots of cars there also online auctions to

 

excllent cheers guys and where in the essex area pre near southend way and i will oook aon the web site craig and cheers for all ya replys guys

 

try breakers but some of them are ropey selling cat bs etc,id go to proper places like copart and that that seem sound like.

 

I get my damaged cars from D Hales, it is online only and you have to be in the trade to have an acount, all sorts of cars get on there, prices are also all over the place though.

 

theres hbc at bilsthorpe as well its an online auction

 

only cat c or d can go back on the road cat b cant also if they have been written off they will be automatically categorized you will do well to buy non reported cars now a days

 

what should i look out for when using these sites??

 

if you buy a car that had been declaired a write off cat C or D then it will have a vic marker against it and there for need to have a Ł41 vic check just learnt that from my experance with my s2

 

only applies to cat c..

steve

 

copart.co.uk

 

cat a,b,c,d can all go back on the road, the cat marker is advisory...

 

and a + b

 

eh when did that change?
you are suposed to have a disposal licence to buy cat a and b cars I know of the loophole to get cat b's on the road but I'm not aware of it being advisory???

steve

 

New one to me to

 

www.abi.org.uk/Information/Consumers/General/595.pdf

steve

 

always been the same...

cod marked cars are the only thing you need disposal licences for,and they can never go back on the road when that marker is issued

 

working at vosa untill 6 months ago i have completed lots of cat a and b vics...


they go back on the road no probs with a vic.

dvla have nothing to do with the category the cars fall into. its an advisory to them from the insurer, it legally means nothing.

 

same old same old in 2010,theres more to write offs than meets the eye.

i just sold a 52 plate cat c vectra sri turbo diesel i got off a mate,it never repeat never had a marker on the logbook yet it hpi'd as a cat c,i could tell it had a wing and a nicely done repair on the bonnet so i wasn't worried it had been hit hard and the innerwing and bulkhead/front panel was perfect and original.

so there you go explain that one !!!! cat c in 2007 and nowt on the recently accquired logbook?

 

i think the marker is removed from the v5 when its vic checked. if the marker is on the v5 dvla wont tax it

it is possible to buy marked cars with markers against them and a new v5 would be issued in that scenario with a marker,indicating its been written off

 

ye i phoned during the week because i never got my tax reminder through the post because of the cat c but i was told that i could tax it with my mot my insurance and my log book at the post office

 

yeah, dvla work in funny ways sometimes

 

i was also told that if i was to sell the car to some 1 before the vic check it i could and would be in there name but they wouldnt get the v5 until it was checked then the buyer would have to apply for the book

 

good thread

 

cat a+b can not go back on the road the dvla will not release the log book,they come with a certificate of destruction meaning they have to be broken for parts and you must be licenced to buy them anyway

 

correct, and once the vic has been completed you will receive the v5 once you send off the v62 to apply for it, then wrote across the bottom of front page is substantially damaged and repaired vic checked on blah blah blah

howver to remove that from the v5 just oput a private plate on the car and it never comes back



in regards tot he above ifact i have seen some cat b's etc go back on the road it is sommonly known there not sposed to but they can do if you try hard enough

 

untrue im afraid.
not all a and bs have cod markers.

COD meaning certificate of destruction, should only ever be issued at the point the vehicle is being destroyed. so none should have a cod marker untill is is about to be squashed.

 

you can still not get a log book for cat a+b trust me i work for a car breakers and we have had loads of motors i wanted to buy but could not because they had to be broken

 

Just thought Id bring this post to your attention, perhaps your boss would rather have made the profit out of breaking those cars / not understood the law rather than sell the car to you to make a profit on?