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Dangerous territory i think My idea of mint will not be the same as someone elses No two people would view it the same How would one feel if your car came up on the crap list and it was not Dodgy I think OMHO

RAY360M

 

excellent idea !

 

Judge, jury and subjective are all words that spring to mind. Where do you draw the line between good and bad... how do you know that the minter you see is not Cat D or C repaired, or that the slightly shabby one has 40k faultless miles under it's belt.

Go see with an open mind will always be best.

Not knocking the idea though if everything on the playing field was equal.

 

I'm waiting for mine to appear on the market as 'mint' in a few months. Will certainly keep my eye out for it, as would hate for someone to buy that after a dodgy fix up.

 

Surely it's been written off?

 

Yea but remember my piccies of my z3 i rebuilt. That was a cat D (extensive damage) rebuild. The car was mashed - Nothing is impossible.

 

This is a good idea in theory, however difficult to implement.

I saw a couple of dodgy 328's when I was looking for mine, one of which I confirmed had been clocked as I spoke to the previous owner. I reported it to HPI and also trading standards as it was offered for sale by a dealer as genuine milage.

I agree with Ray360M, what do you do if you see your own car listed as crap when in fact it is not?

 

If its written off CAT C, then you need to have a proper 'restoration' license to put it back on road. But it certainly can ... and is.... done.

www.bluecycle.co.uk

...if you wanna pick up at auction a written off bargain (errrr.... NOT). quite possibly the most difficult things to sell in the world....

 

No VIC check required for a cat c amazingly, only on a cat D is this necessary. A simple MOT is enough to get most cat c's back on the road.

 

That's the point, it'll be sold as salvage, and someone will repair it on the cheap and then put it on e-bay or Autotrader as a "mint" car!

 

This is very dangerous ground.
What qualifications do you and anybody else who would post on your proposed thread have to judge wether a car is good,bad or anything else.

Please don't take this the wrong way everyone
The majority of Fchatters on the UK section advocate getting a PPI done by a specialist(which I don't have a problem with).But you are proposing the same people,who by the fact that they are having PPI's done by a specialist,admit that they don't have the technical expertise to pass judgement on cars that they have seen.

Yes everyone can look at the paint and say how shiney it is,count the stone chips and see that the drivers seat needs reconnolising,but how many can look deeper.

For instance:-
In my quest for a 348 spider,one of the cars that I have seen,looked on the surface pretty good,good hood and interior,paint not bad except for a few over zelous buffing marks,which could be sorted,HPI CLEAR.
However the front N/S wing had been damaged and repaired badly,along with the front spoiler,but I would bet that most people would not have spotted it.

Apologies if I have offended anyone,that was not my intention.

Steve