Start to worry if they want to pay you via moneygram or western union. They normally say they will pay you your full asking price and a bit extra if they can write the check out for more than the value of the car and you give them the difference in cash. You pay the Cheque into your bank and it clears. you then let them have the car and cash thinking the money is in your bank only for a week or so later to have the bank contact you informing you the cheque was a forgery. You then say to the bank that you thought the cheque was cleared. The bank say it was cleared to draw on but not cleared in their system. You have now lost your car and the extra funds you gave them in exchange for the bent cheque.

 

I have to be honest, it doesn't exactly sound legit.

 

shakes head in wonder Gregg you might want to reread the thread that was started by me.

damm and at 45 i thought the boy was long gone

 

What's the concern with giving out your vin,you can walk down the road and get the reg and vin off most cars now!!!!!!

Or am I missing something!!!!

 

This is the last email. I dont ever remeber needing the vin number for insurence.

Jeremy said that for Subaru France...if it's a UK model and you're sure, great

but to be able to insure it, the insurance company asks for the licence plate number as well as the model number
and the VIN

sorry.... ;-(

he's on the phone now to insure his Mitsubishi and they ask for all this information...sorry.;;
and then the insurance company will send by email the insurance that must be printed out and carried with him while driving vehicule

 

Might be a legit request, bearing in mind some imports arent registered correctly, perhaps it's something to do with that?


Personally i'd ask for pictures of her 'Husky' for authenticity. Tell her you can spot a Canadian wooky hoop when you see one.

 

idd not sure why you are worried about vin no

lol TT

 

When I picked my first Impreza up as a fresh import I insured that on the VIN number as it didn't have a registration number given to it at that time.

Don't most new cars have there VIN on display now in the front windscreen??

 

when you do those reg check things on the phone, do you get the vin number then?

 

I have READ what she has written and still dont see much wrong.

How eactly are they going to steal his identity? Please enlighten me.

All they are asking for is the reg and the vin number. Remember you can get the reg of any car by looking at it and then the VIN from a simple HPI report or just by reading the number that is on the inside of the windscreen on the likes of VW's. What exactly are they going to do with his reg and VIN?

They could need it for insurance because it is an import and the VIN will verify the model.

 

On a HPI report you do, the txt checkers are useless when a proper HPI is done they get the VIN

 

They need my reg, vin number and address. The last one is obvious, I will email and see what happens

 

The car is sold. I am informing the DVLA today. I have been contacted by email today with them saying that the clutch is slipping in 5th which it maybe but as I drive to work only i am never in 5th gear. He test drove it on the day and never noticed it and everything has been signed. Is that it now everything is signed? I just dont want people who are annoyed know where I live while my child and wife are at home

 

Was it sold to the guy from France then? Yeah send everything in to the DVLA and if it is the guy in France make sure and fill out the export bit. If he didnt spot the clutch on a test drive I wouldnt worry, up to you wether you want to help him otu with it, he could be chancing his arm.

 

What does chancing his arm mean? Yes is was the French guy in the end and I am sending the paperwork off today. I have no money to help out and he brought it pritty cheaply to.

 

Chancing his arm means he may just be trying to get a bit of money back by saying the clutch is slipping when it isnt really

 

I have no money to give back as it will all go on my new car. I sold it fairly cheap and if there was a problem I would have part exchanged it for the same money I sold it for. It would mean I wouldnt have needed to take public transport to work today.

 

when he rings: say this to him:

fista da pout, nicte da maird.

sounds like: feestdar poot nicked dar mared. he will love that

 

I sold mine to a guy in austria(Landychris) i was weary just like you. It all went well, i have also made a great friend that i will be going to see again this yr.

The pound is cheaper than the euro hence why there buying from here.

Good luck!! I hope it goes as well for you as it did for me.

 

Its not a life story, its an explaination. Money talks so they need show to the money...

 

have read the thread and know the car is sold,
but the reason they also ask for vin is to insure it as the reg isn't valid abroad..
happened when a chap from germany bought my dc2

 

Well i am surprised, and on this occasion my opinion of it being a scam was wrong. It was nothing to to with a foreign buyer wanting to purchase a car from a uk seller, it was the dialogue she used which made me suspect. Anyway, the man has sold his car now, which was his aim, and i'm glad the sale went through ok.

Greg

 

Spot on mate. When I picked up my scoob from the importers years back, it had an MOT but the registration, although made, had yet to come back. I was told by my insurance company that I was legally able to drive the car on the road with no plates, as long as I displayed the vin in the front and rear windows, as strictly speaking, the vehicles insurance is against the vin number anyhow - the reg no just cross references.

My mate has recently sold his turbo 2 back to a french guy for 20k cash - all went well but as the reg was null and void in france, the vin number was required up front for when he drove the thing back down to the south of France.

All went well with this one by the way also.

Shame the clutch is slipping - looks like he had more to be wary of than the seller did....

Mart.