Hi....anyone who can help I'm posting on behalf of an friend. So he bought a car and its still on previous owners name after the engine gave him problems car was standing still and earlier this year we went to the traffic department to check the cost of renewal of licence disk for licence has expired. When we got at traffic department lady at counter told us that previous owner give ownership of car to someone else without him knowing and cant get hold of previous owner. So he wants to buy a new engin coz old engines giving him to much probs. What must he do to register the car with new engin on his name while car papers is on previous owners name ownership of car has been given to someone else