In the process of selling car just now. chap that was buying it was due to come on saturday to pick it up. Got home from work today and found an email saying that he HPI the car and it came up saying it was stolen. I sh*t myself and instantly done another HPI on it as i already done one when i bought it and sure enough came up saying that the car may be stolen however it has undergone a plate transfer and further investigation is required.
Heart beating like mad i phoned the number and the guy on the phone said that my car had never been stolen, it was down to one of the private plates that has been put on the car at one point in its life.
He said that a toyota avensis was stolen in 1997 and it had a private reg on it. the registration was then put on my legitimately at some point and taken back off but has left a kind of marker on my car and that has fu**ed my sale as the guy now thinks the car is stolen when its got nothing to do with my car and all to do with a registration that hasn't been on the car for 6 years.

 

sounds fucked, sure you can't get rid of the 'mark'??

 

had it happen to me like that with a cozzie,it didn't help it had been on loads of pp's either,the previous owner had his pp on his porsche boxster and it was a write off ,i have had cars hpi clear that have been stolen but not written off but still show up. its just a fuckin minefield with hpi's.
just last month i had a cat c car that wasn't on the logbook and that was from 2007 so explain that and i had a new logbook and tax and it had never been vic checked.

 

yeh its total shit i have been in contact with the guy and he is going to phone them tomorrow as he did it on the internet same as me, seen the stolen part and then emailed my which is fair enough.Just hope he buys it in the end as it isn't the easiest car to get sold at the moment.