Stolen Car.!!

Hi fellow landyzoners. I wonder if any of you can help me with this problem.

I bought my daughter a car from a dealers seven weeks ago. Got the full V5, two sets of keys, service history, old mot's and old tax discs. On Thursday night the police recovered the car from asda's carpark whilst my daughter was shopping. She came out and the car was gone. She contacted the police to report it stolen. The police came out and said that the car was on their stolen register. I asked them when it was stolen and they replied tuesday night.

I showed them the purchase receipt and all the cars details, reg, doc, mot's .. etc...

Their story was that a dealer had loaned the car to a guy with a view to buying, and he had not payed for it. The guy had sold it to another dealer, who I bought it from. The original dealer got sick of trying to contact the guy so reported it stolen.

We had HPI'd the car and it had come back clear as the original dealer had not reported it stolen yet.

The car is acruing storage/ impound charges as I type. it is up to £250 now.

The police have not been very helpful. The officer in charge is on night shift and we can only contact him after 10pm. The police have told us not to confront the dealers yet as they are investigating it.

Does anyone have any experience in this sort of matter.? Where do we stand.? Have we lost the car and/or the purchase price.?

If the car turns out to be legally our's, we will have to pay to get it out of storage. Can we claim the storage fee's back.?

I can't work out why a dealer would wait so long before they reported it stolen.

This is a bloody nightmare...

The dealer who you bought from 7 weeks ago owes you a full refund. He purported to sell you title to a car but no title passed. Since he didn't give you what you paid for you need your money back.

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I've just got off the phone to the investigating officer. The case has been passed on to an investigating team in Durham. They told me that the dealer I bought the car from is in the clear because they had not bought the car, but sold it on a commission basis from the guy who borrowed it from the original dealer. and that they are now investigating multiple similar claims against the original dealer that reported it stolen.

They would not give me any more details.

Chunts......

looks like you be hussled.stitch up good and proper did you pay cash?

just read that again sorry about that but looks like....

Yep, payed cash. Looks like we have lost the car and the money.

But have learned a lesson.....:frusty:

sorry to her that mate.

Feck it... I'm off to the "Anything Goes" section to try and cheer mesell up....

mate not a lot ther just fanatic moaning about his neighbours

Helmetbolt said:

Hi fellow landyzoners. I wonder if any of you can help me with this problem.

I bought my daughter a car from a dealers seven weeks ago. Got the full V5, two sets of keys, service history, old mot's and old tax discs. On Thursday night the police recovered the car from asda's carpark whilst my daughter was shopping. She came out and the car was gone. She contacted the police to report it stolen. The police came out and said that the car was on their stolen register. I asked them when it was stolen and they replied tuesday night.

I showed them the purchase receipt and all the cars details, reg, doc, mot's .. etc...

Their story was that a dealer had loaned the car to a guy with a view to buying, and he had not payed for it. The guy had sold it to another dealer, who I bought it from. The original dealer got sick of trying to contact the guy so reported it stolen.

We had HPI'd the car and it had come back clear as the original dealer had not reported it stolen yet.

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Was it a full HPI, and did you complete all thechecks on the vehicle required by HPI? If so, you have some come back with them?

Tazz

This really boils my ****, you did everything right and, it appears, you end up being the loser.
Does this mean that if you buy from a garage you need to ask, and get in writing, if they are the owners or if they are selling on behalf of someone else?

Other than buying new is there no safe way to buy a vehicle any more?

Something doesn`t add up here - I have never yet come across a car dealer who loans someone a car with a view to buying it AND gives them all the paperwork including the V5 at the same time.
Assuming its a reasonable amount of money I would seek legal advice sooner rather than later, just keep an eye on the legal bills OR if you are in the AA/RAC try them, OR try your daughter`s insurers, particularly if you have legal expenses cover, OR try your home insurers if you have legal expenses cover ?