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Hi Guys, I'm about due for another car and am pretty much fed up with searching carsales, trading post and ebay everyday to find nothing. I remember they used to run stolen recovered vehicle auctions here years ago, but I've been unable to find any details of where they are held these days. If anyone knows would they be able to give me some details? Not interested in repairable write off cars, just stolen / recovered. Thanks

Virtual-R wrote:Hi Guys, I'm about due for another car and am pretty much fed up with searching carsales, trading post and ebay everyday to find nothing. I remember they used to run stolen recovered vehicle auctions here years ago, but I've been unable to find any details of where they are held these days. If anyone knows would they be able to give me some details? Not interested in repairable write off cars, just stolen / recovered. Thanks

How could you get fed up with carsales? I love that site

I dunno about you but I wouldn't like to own a car which has been stolen and taken on a joyride. They usually get flogged to within an inch of their life before being dumped somewhere. I'd also wonder why the original owner didn't take the car back after it had been recovered...

Takumi wrote: How could you get fed up with carsales? I love that site

Me too. I'm literally on there every day fantasy shopping for cars.

I've worked on cars my whole life and built project cars before too, so have a good knowledge of what to look for in terms of whether the car is at the end of it's life or not. Also not hard for me to fit a new engine / box / suspension if something does give up, I've fixed up friends cars after they were stolen so no different to me buying a stolen recovered car.

Most times they end up at Auction because insurance already paid out before the car was recovered, 90% of them sit in council lock ups and police aren't even notified until a few weeks later, they make more money that way because the owner or insurer has to pay the impound fee.

Very little choice on carsales / trading post / ebay for the car's I'm interested in buying, for some reason the market in Victoria seems dead. Any that do pop up are far too over priced (99% dealer advertisements) and almost all of them are within the last 80,000km of their life anyway. I just need a half decent run around car for the moment that I can dump in a couple of years time, which is what I'm doing with my current car, bought it at 215,000km and scrapping it once it gets to 320,000. I've got $14,000 at the moment but would prefer to spend about $4000 on a car and have some security money left over. If I get desperate I might fly to sydney or the gold coast and buy a car there, many more cars available and at decent prices.

Police Auctions are good also.

When I was looking it was really difficult to find anything that wasnt an ex fleet car (Falcon/Commodore). Car yards are waaaay too over priced as well. Carsales seemed my only real option and I had to keep at it for a while. The police auctions were something I was considering too, but I'd decided exactly what I wanted by that stage.

Mananged to find the car I wanted, turns out this one was a stolen recovered too but I didn't pick it up from auction, a mechanic / paint shop was selling the car. It is an ex auction car though, still has the auction numbers on it.

The car is a 1994 Holden Caprice V8, fully optioned with 180,000kms on the clock, picked it up for $3000. Only issue with the car is a fairly harsh shift when changing up to second, rest of the car is nearly faultless and it passed a roadworthy without me needing to do anything, did a full inspection over the car and it has never been in a major accident and is really very good condition for a car of it's age. Went through re-registration last week and it is on the road now, old car will soon be sent to scrap heaven.

Guess my plans all came together eventually in the end, still have no idea where the stolen / recovered vehicle auctions are held though lol