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Semi hypothetical question.
What would you do in this scenario?
A car is booked in to your workplace for a bit of servicing work and an Engine strip down (to sort some serious leaks).
It comes in and you put it on ramps and start checking it over... only to find out it is completely, completely rotten. Like, no sills behind the skirts. Floor only 50% present, another 25% is cardboard and underseal, the rest is just gaping rusty holes. Same for the boot floor. And the inner arches. It's so rotten the car starts to twist on the lift, zero structural integrity left.
The car has a cheap respray, and when informed the customer (eventually) admits the mot, issued less than two months ago, is a bought one.
Further to that, the customer then asks for the servicing and leak fixing work to be finished so that they can bluff the car off to someone "who doesn't know where to look" for full value, not a project type price.
-at that point we refused to do any work on the car, not wanting to be part of that, and asked for them to collect it.-
Question being, what would you do? Anything further? Would you report to Vosa?
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you from n ireland , people get shot for that as ye no
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Shot for selling hooky motors or shot for grassing on the sellers of hooky motors? Either way doesnt sound like great fun - what about telling the place that sold the MOT their cover will be blown if the geezer punts it on? In my experience dodgy tickets tend to be a favour on the condition the person doesn't sell the car on at least in the first 6 months. Unless it's an outfit that's churning out fakes day in day out they might be able to stop the guy from selling it. In terms of covering your ass I'd be sure to retain plausible deniability throughout  |
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if this van's a rocking... then my starter motor is probably fecked again
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if it really is unsafe / Dangerous then Chassis no / vin and report to vosa, along with any time/dated images youve got of the excessive damage.
if your Workplace has an mot testing facility could they not Condemn the Vehicle.
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Report it no question
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Toyota HiAce Super Custom Ltd (My thing)
Isuzu Trooper (her thing)
Audi a4 1999 (boys thing)
Toyota Yaris
Caravan - (festi thing)
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I thought MOT in NI was done by a Govt agency?
Ask yourself this, how would you feel if the thieving cnut sold it to a family member.....
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Needs a bigger hammer mate.......
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(take this as sarcasm) I wouldnt worry about it, plenty of cars are / will be MOT exempt that it shouldnt really matter.
.....aaaaand back in the room. Report it. Sounds like a death trap.
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gte86
Part of things
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Is it a retro? Put a pic up in the spotted section so the car can become known
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Shot for selling hooky motors or shot for grassing on the sellers of hooky motors? Either way doesnt sound like great fun - what about telling the place that sold the MOT their cover will be blown if the geezer punts it on? In my experience dodgy tickets tend to be a favour on the condition the person doesn't sell the car on at least in the first 6 months. Unless it's an outfit that's churning out fakes day in day out they might be able to stop the guy from selling it. In terms of covering your ass I'd be sure to retain plausible deniability throughout no in n ireland you will be shot for touting , doesn t have to be about mot s , |
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Having bought a car very much like this I would say report it. The thing is I bought a car that was a little bit frilley around the edges, but with ten months MOT i figured it was good enough, when I took it to my MOT for the first one in my care the MOT guy didn't really want me to drive it away, and he said that in his opinion it had not been near an MOT centre in years, and any MOT it had was probably done over the phone because he reckoned that no matter who was MOTing it would never have put one on it if they had seen it. In the ten months I'd owned it I had done quite a lot of driving it, and most of the time it was with my kids and wife on board too! Report it, it might cost some fella some money, and maybe their job. Or worse, it might cost some poor unsuspecting fella everything.
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Kron
Part of things
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Report it, you could well be saving a life.
Duty of care to the wider unsuspecting public and all that.
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Last Edit: Apr 9, 2018 5:15:42 GMT by Kron
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That's a c.u.n.t.s trick of the owner, the car could potentially take its occupants life and they are happy to mislead and sell it. I would try and get this heap off the road
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thebaron
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Report it.
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if the owner was being honest and genuine about it then it would be a tricky call... but as he is clearly a 24 carrat lady garden....REPORT....get it off the road. |
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating
'80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip
'97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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A couple of times I've bought daily drivers with long MOT left, only to find out after a couple of months that the MOT was dodgy and the car obviously hasn't been "MOT-able" for a couple of years. Not happy!
As the new owner - my problem is that if I report it to VOSA I'm effectivly scrapping my daily driver while it still has a long MOT on it.
In your case, I'd be flagging the car and the garage with Vosa, or bringing it up with the garage that did the MOT.
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Sorry talk of shooting people ?........lockdown mods
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Fraud owners club member
1999 Jaguar s type
1993 ford escort
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Going to lock as there are reasonable answers and I don't see it getting answered more than it already has been (without descending into messiness)
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