Posted By: Skiday
Buying a Cat N/S car??? - 06/06/2022 13:40
Hi Folks
At the moment I'm looking to buy an everyday car that is Cat N. From what I have found it is not a big problem if you understand how re-sale values are affected and I have checked the insurance is OK. But what I can't seem to find is: What happens if a car is declared Cat N (or S) more than once in it's life? The seller has shown me photos that claim to show the damage before the classification, but there is no way I can see the car being written off for that (but that doesn't mean it wasn't). But in general, what if a cars gets a good banging up one year, gets repaired and back on the road and given CatN, but then gets into a small scrape the next year, the seller takes some pics, gets a repair, and then uses that as the pics to say, 'Look.. it wasn't damaged much at all!'. Is there any record or registry held by anyone, or should there be a paper trail to show that the damage and repair shown to me is the one that the car got its Cat N for?
Thanks
Andrew
At the moment I'm looking to buy an everyday car that is Cat N. From what I have found it is not a big problem if you understand how re-sale values are affected and I have checked the insurance is OK. But what I can't seem to find is: What happens if a car is declared Cat N (or S) more than once in it's life? The seller has shown me photos that claim to show the damage before the classification, but there is no way I can see the car being written off for that (but that doesn't mean it wasn't). But in general, what if a cars gets a good banging up one year, gets repaired and back on the road and given CatN, but then gets into a small scrape the next year, the seller takes some pics, gets a repair, and then uses that as the pics to say, 'Look.. it wasn't damaged much at all!'. Is there any record or registry held by anyone, or should there be a paper trail to show that the damage and repair shown to me is the one that the car got its Cat N for?
Thanks
Andrew