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proof of ownership on second hand private sale

DamoKen · 2005-02-14 12:44:36

Hi All, I'm going to look at a Ford Focus '99 this evening and was wondering how do I know I'm (a) talking to the legal owner, and (b) there's nothing outstanding on the car i.e. hire purchase etc. The reason I ask is I'm meeting the guy in a carpark, he says it's beside where he works, no cause to doubt him but just means…

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#32 17-02-2005 5:32pm
DamoKen

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BrianD wrote:

Good to see that GArdai are able to provide information from the computer system! There's me thinking it was useless and sure who cares about the data protection act!

well originally what I asked was to check if it was stolen as the price seemed very cheap. Seems a bit strange that legally when buying a second hand car there is no way you can find out by normal means if a car is legit or not other than the doc's provided by the seller. The fact it had been in a crash only came up as a result of this. While I'm quite a trusting person the fact that the seller told me the car had never been in an accident and a crash being recorded against it proving otherwise made me for once not mind too much that the data protection act was circumvented. I'm generally in favour of data protection, but when it's protecting someone who is just trying to rip me off by lying about a dodgy product than my opinion changes somewhat!

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