Always get your next car purchase checked out
Swade from Trollhattan Saab is possibly the most passionate Saab dude out there.
He was about to buy a 1999 Viggen (that’s a crazy-powerful Saab in case you didn’t know) and got a Dept of Transport check done on it, to see if there were any “financial encumberances” on it. No money was owed but it turns out the car had been previously entered on the “written off vehicles” register! Not cool at all.
I wonder if it was a real Viggen or a numbers job? That is, did someone re-birth a normal 9-3 as a much rarer Viggen?
Ben, the VIN checked out Ok as agenuine Viggen. It’s just that it was a genuine written off and repaired Viggen. Pretty good repair job. If the reference to the written-off vehicles register hadn’t been on the certificate I got, I probably would never had known (it passed an inspection without mention). it might well be OK, but it’s not what I want to spend my money on, and he lied to me about it when asked a direct question early in the piece.
Mongrel.
All state transport licencing orgs do these checks. For around $25
Comment by Swade — October 26, 2005 @ 8:27 am