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[midridge2]

if it was a cat b write off the shell must have been bad, so are we assuming that the owner repaired the shell, if the garage bought the car when the repairs had been done well would it bother the garage? if it had a new bodyshell then thats a good price or is it possible that its a ringer, the only way the garage could tell is if the vin number on the scuttle had been cut out and replaced with the original or pretent a new scuttle had been fitted. how many people on this forum have had posts about reshelling there minis and using a second hand shell and using there original details.
its not all clear cut and the garages fault.

[mini_turbo_pete]

This might help for salvage catagories etc..

http://www.crimeredu...v.uk/mso06a.pdf

A Cat B or A vehicle should never be returned to the road and DVLA should not issue a log book for it either.

[Jammy]

We've kinda been over that already!

[Dan]

It is after all only insurance industry rules and part of their agreement with the salvage yards. It's not the law or anything to do with the DVLA or VOSA. Didn't this come up before when one of us was having a many months long battle with an insurance company to stop her car getting crushed?

[Ethel]

We need an addendum to Murphy's law:

Never take anything off a web address ending in .gov.uk as gospel (esp if it says home office)... and never ever pay attention to anything with a flow chart.

[ROCKET]

Wasn't it Bean and her brown mini Charlie??

[whitbytom]

I'm pretty sure the trader has to legally inform you off things like that when you buy.

As far as I am aware that is the case. When I worked in the motor trade, a junior sales exec took in a Mercedes ML as a part exchange, car was 100% legit, absolutely honest straight car, about 30k's worth.

It turned out shortly after the deal was done that there was a clone of that car currently on the road somewhere down south. I was told at the time that we could not sell or pass the car to auction without informing the new owner of the situation. Obviously if we kept quiet and sold it on, the new owner would get a pile of speeding tickets and parking fines for the clone of their car!

I forget what happened to the car in the end, but I don't think anything could be done till the police found the clone.

Anyway, don't buy that white mini in Scarborough, it's probably legit (I'm still confused), but expensive.