WRITTEN OFF / CRASH DAMAGED

An area little understood is the business of buying written off cars from insurance companies, restoring them to good, roadworthy, condition, testing them properly and then selling them. This is all perfectly legal and not to be confused with the far more dangerous and illegal practise of "cut and shut".

While perfectly legal this is an area best left to the expert to buy and sell in,   unless you have considerable mechanical understanding this whole area of the car market is best left to the professionals.

Abstracted from the book “Buying a Used Car” © G Benge 1997-2007