What should I do.

[Sevvie]

Hi everyone new to club,the last Nissan I owned was a Datsun cherry estate in orange I brought in the 60's,have owned many cars over the years ,my wife like the look of a micra,she only does Cople of hundred miles a month if that,56 plate 5 door auto spirita, blue,purchased private seller,did all the hpi check nothing came back as a problem,have never driven a micra before drove home so seemed ok apart from couple of things,booked into local Nissan specialists they did service on the car and told me that the car had had a major crash at the front although been repaired the drive shaft were slightly out of line and needed replacing,this was an ex motabilty car which they also by and resell and on checking they found the car was written of a year after it was new,nothing shows that it is a cat c or d on any hpi.should the insurance company have told the dvl a about the write off at the time so that anyone being it would know?
my wife loves the car it's great little car to drive and so different from the Merchant I have.any advice rob

 

[weestar84]

welcome to the forum Blimey thats a shame that its been written off and you didnt know about it, i would have thought they would have had to inform the dvla of that! Then again im no expert so really dont know. Hopefully it can all be sorted out and your mrs can have many happy years with her car

 

[essexpunx]

Hi, don't the HPI companys have a scheme whereby if they say a car is fine, and it turns out not to be, then they compensate the buyer, i used a company to do a check on a passat i bought a couple of years ago, and i recall them having a compensation scheme upto £20000 if their infomation was incorrect, also i always thought the DVLA were informed if a car was written off.

 

[Sevvie]

Hi thanks for replies have found out the insurance company failed to register the car as cat c write off so no one was informed,if a car is cat c has to have vic test done so driving car illegally have told the insurance co rsa about it they have accepted liability so currently taking them to the cleaners

 

[Scott]

No, you dont need the VIC test to drive the car. Its only an Identity check on the car and has nothing to do with the roadworthyness of the car. If your car is a Cat C and you want a new log book, the car must go through a VIC test.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motorin...e/AdviceOnBuyingAndSellingAVehicle/DG_4022107

 

[r-reg-sr]

V.I.C check for the win!

check at DVLA if the car your buying needs vic check,its free just type your reg in
mine does and so i am driving about in it,good in it
so basically dvla are holding the log book although i am registerd new keeper in their records.they are asking 41 pounds to do the vic check
just another scam to get us more poorer as insurance already come and check the car and would take em an extra 5 minutes to do a VEHICLE IDENTITY CHECK
so its like this
DVLA-------"WE HAVE HELD YOUR LOGBOOK MAKING IT NEAR IMPOSSIBLE TO GET ROAD TAX AND MANY OTHER THINGS"
ME--------"TIME TO CHECK THE LAW ON THIS"
DVLA------""NO BOTHER MATE IT TAKES A FEW MINUTES AND COSTS £41/42 POUND"
ME------"OK BYE"
i cannot find anywhere stating the car cannot be driven untill vic done
if its MOT'd TAXED,INSURED,,IT is road legal more than can be said about these pot hole which are illegal if such a such depth milimetre's

 

[r-reg-sr]

No, you dont need the VIC test to drive the car. Its only an Identity check on the car and has nothing to do with the roadworthyness of the car. If your car is a Cat C and you want a new log book, the car must go through a VIC test.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motorin...e/AdviceOnBuyingAndSellingAVehicle/DG_4022107

it is mentioned they will sieze the car if its dangerous
thats why you can take the car on a trailer ,and it is shown that work is being done to make it road worthy again

 

[Scott]

My brothers Pulsar got written off as a Cat C before christmas. 4 months later, no VIC check has been done and he has had NO trouble from anyone about it, police, insurance, DVLA etc... He had no trouble taxing it either...

About 2 weeks prior to the accident, it had its MOT done. Then after the crash, he didnt need another one.

If he was gonna sell the car, then he would need to have the test done.

 

[r-reg-sr]

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yeh for that above reason only
another good reason to knock off £100 of the sellers price

 

[Sevvie]

Hi guys thanks again for replies,the real issue is that the insurance company never told dvl a that the car was a cat c write off so after the car was repaired some time after the crash and I brought the car the dvl a issued documents for the car because they weren't told about the cat c,the idea of they vic is to check that the car is a ringer,it could be because the check was in the eyes of dvl a not required,that's why hpi didn't no about it,I would not have brought the car knowing it was cat c,the car was repaired but the engine was twisted during the crash and needs straightening and drive shafts need replacing also air bags were not replaced,it was a hodge repair that would have checked if I had released it was a cat c,there again would not have even brought it,once sorted out will be looking to replace with same butgeniunecar

 

[essexpunx]

Take the insurance company for as much as you can, i hope everything turns out good in the end.

 

[will930]

not always told weve had many cars written off but not actually been through insurance or DVLA but thats rich people for ya!

 

[kennierobo]

Ive had 3 vic checks done on previous cars if you dont get it done then when the tax is up you cant tax it so its a worthless piece of junk. You can drive a car to a vic check regardless of mot or not, you do however have to have it insured, if havent repaired the car take it on a trailer if you have leave any panels unpainted and clean the engine chassis numbers with wire wool makes life so much easier when its been looked over. Finally if its been a cat c then it will be in bold print on front cover of log book near the bottom most people fail to look at the front cover as they think all the info is on the inside its not, cat d wont need a vic check and wont appear on log book.

 

[Sevvie]

Would not have known about write of if hadn't taken it to Nissan specialists who buys mobility cars soon as he looked at it said been in major crash then checked and told me had been write of,waiting for insurance to make me offer but intend to get max price so can replace with micra,what's top of range for k12 range

 

[frank]

it may have been a self insured company that owned it/wrote it off (ie if you have enough collateral, you dont need insurance), because you can buy unrecorded salvage eh http://www.capitalautosalvage.com/results.php?submit=Search&cat[0]=17

 

[Sevvie]

Hi Frank insurance company was royal sun alliance they do all mobility cars