Would you buy this crashed & repaired car?

Skillmister · 7 Sep 2017 at 08:44

There's a Fiesta ST doing the rounds that got crashed on track and is now being sold with no category. Can't find the pics but iirc the entire side was pretty caved in and part of the roof :eek:

Clarkey · 7 Sep 2017 at 13:38

Skillmister said:
There's a Fiesta ST doing the rounds that got crashed on track and is now being sold with no category. Can't find the pics but iirc the entire side was pretty caved in and part of the roof

I feel like there is a great deal of misunderstanding about VCAR. The basic facts are that cars are put on the register only when they are written off. There are therefore tonnes of damage repaired cars out there that are unregistered, every single one which is repaired by the insurance for example. If the car is valuable enough then yes, insurers will authorise major repairs like an entire side be replaced etc..

Scania · 7 Sep 2017 at 22:49

Nasher said:
It's one of the places where you can just go and buy a licence over the counter.

This is very true, even for class 1 HGV licenses, think about that for a moment, there are an awful lot of Russian "HGV drivers" over here working driving U.K. registered trucks....

As for those rebuilds, I wouldn't want to drive any of them, that level of damage isn't put back on our roads over here for a very good reason!

Diddums · 7 Sep 2017 at 22:51

I suspect that those welds will have the structural strength of a wet loo roll. Metal always weakens next to welds, those cars will crumple like tin cans in a decent impact.

Nasher · 7 Sep 2017 at 23:11

Scania said:
This is very true, even for class 1 HGV licenses, think about that for a moment, there are an awful lot of Russian "HGV drivers" over here working driving U.K. registered trucks....

As for those rebuilds, I wouldn't want to drive any of them, that level of damage isn't put back on our roads over here for a very good reason!

Must be only temporary though. I don't think you can actually use a mickey mouse licence in the UK for long.

Scania · 8 Sep 2017 at 11:15

Nasher said:
Must be only temporary though. I don't think you can actually use a mickey mouse licence in the UK for long.

I was told this by a Russian former workmate, he moved here from Belarus a few years back (2005) but had been living and working in Volgograd, Russia he changed his license (which he'd bought in Russia) for a U.K. one in 2007, it wasn't a fake license as such more a legitimate one issued by officials who didn't mind a bung, he made no secret of this and said it was easy to get a license out there for any class of vehicle if you knew where to go and who to pay....