Almost bought a New (used) Car, Turn out to be a Cat-D :(

The questions have to be why was the car written off? What was its value at the time?

We HPI'd a PT Cruiser we were looking at a few years ago and the private seller seemed genuinely shocked it came up as Cat C. He had put a minor repair to the rear bumper (car park incident) through his insurance so I phoned up the insurance company to check. I'mnot bothered over a bumper! Turns out the Cat C was done when the car was 5 months old. No details on record other than it was Cat C at 5 months old and back on the road about 6 months after that. At that point I was no longer at all interested in buying the car. Sure it could have all been done properly but OTOH it could be a lash up. Who knows? The car was £20K new so it was serious damage to Cat C it at 5 months.

A chap I know bought a car, HPI clear, he took the carpet out to put a stereo in or something and found the floors were severely wrinkled from a previous, very serious accident. "Car previously registered overseas" on the logbook effectively means HPI = worthless...
 
Alistairk said:
The questions have to be why was the car written off? What was its value at the time?

We HPI'd a PT Cruiser we were looking at a few years ago and the private seller seemed genuinely shocked it came up as Cat C. He had put a minor repair to the rear bumper (car park incident) through his insurance so I phoned up the insurance company to check. I'mnot bothered over a bumper! Turns out the Cat C was done when the car was 5 months old. No details on record other than it was Cat C at 5 months old and back on the road about 6 months after that. At that point I was no longer at all interested in buying the car. Sure it could have all been done properly but OTOH it could be a lash up. Who knows? The car was £20K new so it was serious damage to Cat C it at 5 months.

A chap I know bought a car, HPI clear, he took the carpet out to put a stereo in or something and found the floors were severely wrinkled from a previous, very serious accident. "Car previously registered overseas" on the logbook effectively means HPI = worthless...
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this is true i agree with you what u said buddy..
 
the other thing is "there is always a straight one for sale" - unless the car you are looking at is seriously rare it doesn't seem *that* much more expensive (IME, YMMV) to buy a car which is HPI clear than to buy something Cat D / Cat C.

Which is what we did with the PT Cruiser. We were sad not to get the one we planned to (it was the nicest one we had looked at to that point) Kept looking and a week later we got another the same year, spec and colour even, similar mileage and we got it at below the price we had budgetted for.
 
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