HPI Check, £5 well spent car recorded as scrapped!

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Tue 15 Apr 2008 10:02
HPI Check, £5 well spent car recorded as scrapped! - oldnotbold
Watching a car on Ebay, I had a slight smell of rat, so I checked it on the RAC HPI check system. Recorded as scrapped, last change of keeper was a year ago, yet the seller, who I have spoken to, reckons he's had it a month to tide him over, and bought it from a dealer who had taken it as a PX.

I'm curious how it can be recorded as scrapped, when it seems to have a recent MoT, as it's MoTd until March 2009.

Is it possible that the DVLA data is wrong?
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Tue 15 Apr 2008 10:08
Possible Ringer? - TeeCee
That'd make sense. There could have been two of 'em running around for a while, it's not necessarily the fault of either the present keeper or the dealer he got it from....
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Tue 15 Apr 2008 10:13
Possible Ringer? - oldnotbold
The HPI check gives the correct model, colour etc., but I'll avoid it all the same - too much hassle.
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Tue 15 Apr 2008 11:11
Possible Ringer? - Optimist
The HPI info looks prettty comprehensive. Is there anything else you get that you've not mentioned?
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Tue 15 Apr 2008 11:33
Possible Ringer? - LinuxGeek
I saw a car on Auto Trader couple of months ago and wanted to buy it for my Mrs. Went to see the car and then did HPI and HPI report was the car is a write-off whereas the owner didn't mention anything about it, the car was repaired well but even then its a write-off. When asked him he just drove off saying that I was a time waster!
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