Hi This is a very long story, but I will try to keep it to the brief major points. The car was brought from a friends neighbour, nearly 2 years ago. On trying to register the carte grise at the prefecture we were told that the car had previously been written off and we needed a further test to confirm the car was road worthy (it was sold with a new C.T.). The guy took the car back and (apparently) arranged for the test. Now the problems... we have never been able to get the results of this test from the seller. We were originally driving the car around, but when all this came to light I felt very unhappy about driving it, and it has since sat on our front drive. The seller has been a complete nightmare to get hold of, his promises to sort things out, never happen and now it is found out that he has used some of the commune money to sort out his own house renovations !! So all not going well. I have cancelled the insurance as I wasn't going to keep paying out for nothing. We do hold the carte grise, but as I said this is invalid due to the car being previously written off. We have completely given up on the man, and will no longer spend time and money trying to ring or go round his house. My question really is, can we get this car registered ourselves and who do we contact to start the ball rolling. The mad thing is the car is actually a good little runner and always started 1st time right through the winter. So do we try and sort this mess out and how? or can we just sell the car as for parts only? I really don't want to lose all our money we paid for it. Thanks for any response I might get. Dee
