HPI Car Rip Offs

We said it many times on this site, the biggest rip off when doing an hpi - car data check is the check itself. Charging £37.00 for someone that costs them less than £2 to perform, and they sell the same check to traders at less than £5. The words "bleeding rip off" certainly are at the top of our discriptive text in this instance.

Anyway, once you've lost some money to these companies, lets see if we can help you avoid losing any further pennies to the other unscuplulous people out there.

Common Tricks

Twinning, is the easiest of all tricks to perform. This basically involves making registration plates that match one vehicle and putting them on a separate vehicle of the same make, model, and spec as the original.

Cut and Shut

This is when someone takes a car that has had a extensive front end collision, they remove the rear of this vehicle and weld it to the front end of a car that has had extensive rear damage. The car never has the strength in the chassis of a complete car and is considered to be highly dangerous. The types of cars that these criminals tend to cut and shut most often are BMW's, Audi's and other cars that are of the mid-high luxury market.

Finance Deals

We are well aware that the when buying a new car, for some people the only way they can get finance is if they take it from the seller and with the loan secured on the car. If you are able to get finance from a bank, then this is often the best way of paying for your car. Deals can be obtained from around 6%. Car dealers and sellers are renouned for jumbling the figures and telling you that you get 6% when in fact you are getting around 10%.