A bit like spam......

you forgot to put (not *insert a list of cars ever made here*) in the title line :)

you have weird feeback to mate hehe

What were you doing to break a wheel bolt?

I'd have fixed this and the V19 bit before selling - got to be worth more than 40 quid on the price.

cheers, clive

Vamp loved his monkey enough to say...

How so? Seems normal to me!

Tightening it up :-) I really wasn't doing it up *that* tight - felt about right, just nip it up a bit more to be sure.......*bollocks*.

V62 or V5 surely? Yeah, I thought of that, but I'd be waiting even longer for the log book to come through, and I'm quite busy with other things not to mess about getting it to a garage to drill out a remainder of a bolt, plus I'm not insured on it anymore, so would involve getting a mate who is to drive it about for me - all in all, I can't be doing with the hassle and just want rid of it and get most of the cash back I've put into it.

Peter

Have I? How so?

Peter

Yes, just me getting confused with the 19 quid bit.

cheers, clive

You clicked on an wrapped URL - make sure it's 'astravanman'

Heh! I see what he was on about now :-)

Peter

Clive George ( snipped-for-privacy@xxxx-x.fsnet.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Agreed. Especially the logbook. Nobody in their right mind's going to bid on it with that (especially the "it's a long story, but I can explain it - honest, guv, no - really - I can - and it's true. Really. Would I lie to you, mate?") hanging over it.

Yeah, if it doesn't go on ebay I'll do exactly that, basically I want it sold with the minimum of hassle really.

Peter

Shouldn't be a problem, but some don't realise what a log book/paper, actually is. Simply a record of the cars keeper. It doesn't mean the person listed is the owner or can legally sell it. You have a receipt from the previous owner. IMO that is better proof of ownership, than a log book. Wouldn't bother me. I baught my Celica without a log book, after checking the seller was the owner. Mike.

Precisely, and I'm kinda going with the idea that the average person buying a van might just have enough street savvy and common sense to realise this, and realise that it doesn't devalue the van by any more than the £19 plus the cost of the envelope, wear and tear and depreciation on the pen filling in the form, plus time taken to go to the post office to obtain said form, fill the thing in, write out a cheque and post the lot, so about a fiver on top :-)

But assuming people to have common sense is a very naive thing to do in this day and age.

Peter

Have they changed things again ? It shouldn't normally cost anything to get a new logbook when ownership has transferred...

Does if you don't have the original to send off, unless I'm mistaken...

-- JackH

So it's changed then (perhaps when the new style logbooks came into play...) ? 'cos you never used to have to pay them - I've sent off for loads of new logbooks using only the PO form.

All part of the becoming an 'agency', one assumes.

-- JackH

AstraVanMan ( snipped-for-privacy@WithThanks.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Have you not seen any of the dozens of DVLA adverts? The ones saying "Look, don't buy anything without a V5, because it's probably nicked"?

Yes... but he's a registered seller on eBay, and is selling it through their website.

In other words, he's shown proof of his ID by way of a bank card, to get a sellers account.

Not only that, but he's been registered since May 02, and has a positive rating of 32 at the moment - that's 32 deals where he's not pissed the other persons about, over a period stretching more than two years.

Anyone who gets their fingers burnt buying an iffy motor, V5 present or not, needs to open their eyes more, and not place implicit faith in one or two pieces of paper.

-- JackH