Written-off cars are repaired and sold to unwitting buyers, says Motorbody Repairers' Association. Picture: TIMESLIVE
According to Green insurers routinely ‘write off’ vehicles and these vehicles are sold, within a salvage contract, to auction yards. “While there is nothing wrong with this on face value, the problem comes in when these vehicles, still registered as Code 2 are sold to any buyer willing to pay the highest price on auction.
“Most vehicles stolen by professional thieves have a high value and are never recovered, as they’re either stripped for parts and the bodies dumped or re-birthed under new identities. These written off vehicles provides the perfect foil for this illegal activity. Sambra believes a formal, publicly accessible write-off register will minimise the illegal use of vehicle identifiers in the re-birthing of stolen vehicles and in curtailing stolen vehicle parts being used in the repair of damaged vehicles. It will also help eliminate unsafe vehicles for unsuspecting purchasers. In response, SAIA says that when a written-off vehicle is sold, the respective code is disclosed to the buyer.
According to TransUnion’s Kriben Reddy, buyers of secondhand vehicles were previously able to use TransUnion’s service to check whether vehicles had been written off, but not any more.
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