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[pompei]

I've just been looking at an ad for a car being sold by a dealer which is a DVLA repossession. He says it was confiscated by the DVLA for having no tax and there are no HPI issues.Has anyone experience of this? Does title pass to the DVLA if the car is confiscated, or should any buyer be concerned that an aggrieved (former) owner might turn up at your front door demanding his car back? And how would you get the V5? Sounds like a can of snakes to me

[Cavcraft]

I'd imagine the DVLA auction them off if they're worth anything. You would then receive or apply for the V5, which surely the DVLA would send out happily to you.There is of course the chance the previous owner may have the spare keys and try and steal it back one day but he/she would be taking a risk as it would be theft.The risks that I see are that if previous owner has keys and the V5 they could nick it and sell it to someone.It'd need to be cheap to compensate for the above and perhaps worth changing the locks if you did buy it?

[pompei]

This is the car

 

http://www.carandclassic.com/car/C117838/

 

 

I reckon it's at least a grand overpriced with all those issues ...

[lancashireclamper]

The lack of history has to be worrying, anyone who can't be arsed taxing or even sorning the thing is probably going to be less than meticulous about maintainence etc, and these cars are not exactly tolerant of neglect!

[VWPowered]

nice that

[meggersdog]

Does seem over-priced but no key issues as he is changing the locks.

[The Liberator]

I reckon it's at least a grand overpriced with all those issues ...

Not to mention the obligatory belt and variator change, another £400 unless you can do it yourself (I certainly can't). Reasonable mileage, though.

[Richard]

Is it even legal to confiscate an untaxed car? Has anybody tried to challenge it?I can see how a car can be confiscated if it was bought with bent money, or if the car has been misused in a way that endangers the public but for failing to pay road tax is a bit strong IMO.I bet the owner of that Alfa was caught out moving it while it was on SORN for the winter.

[morris_ital_lover]

Is it even legal to confiscate an untaxed car? Has anybody tried to challenge it?I can see how a car can be confiscated if it was bought with bent money, or if the car has been misused in a way that endangers the public but for failing to pay road tax is a bit strong IMO.I bet the owner of that Alfa was caught out moving it while it was on SORN for the winter.

The car would probably be taken as collateral to cover the costs of case/just being on the road without tax and might well ave neen scooped in one of their ig stings i.e. where they get the dvla and a shed load of traffic cops to sit in s service station and cops on the motorway bring untaxed/uninsured cars them to be confiscated etc.m0rris

[r.welfare]

I can't imagine the DVLA actually repo'd it - more likely the local police, probably for no tax/MOT or some other Road Traffic Act infringement. The pound these cars are held in is usually outsourced to a third party these days - there's a couple of sellers on eBay (bournemouthgaragesales is one) who sell cars that are too good for the crusher.I was also under the impression that a cambelt/variator change on a 2L Twin-Spark is very much not a DIY proposition, although I do understand it's slightly easier on the 1.6 and 1.8.

[STUNO]

A private plate may do wonders for peace of mind.

[Mr Lobster]

Not overly cheap but then sounds like it could be a decent car. Key issue would be a slight concern - if he doesn't have the red key (it should come with three keys - two normal and one master) then that should knock a good few hundred off as it is potentially a big problem.Cambelt and variator is not the sort of job you'd want to do yourself but £400 should cover it. These cars don't like neglect but a good one would be a lovely thing.

[Pillock]

A chap on the estate I used to live on bought a 'new' car (to him) - a Y-plate Omega as I recall. A few weeks later it had all the tyres slashed and windows put through in the night... the copper that came (4 days later) to have a word recognised the registration, turns out it used to belong to a local drug dealer. He got sent down, and anything of value that is supposedly bought with proceeds from drugs can be auctioned off which included his car.One of the people he owed money to when he got sent down saw it parked there, didn't know it had been auctioned, and took a bit of revenge.

[Tayne]

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