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semisane1987

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Good morning

Early this year around May I had some issues with my car honda brio, I fixed the car and sold it the garage that bought the car said the guy who bought the car said he will unregister the car.

Surprise surprise two weeks back I started to receive messages from AARTO that I must go to the post office. So this morning I went to the post office I have three traffic fines in my name, speed camera in Pretoria caught my Honda brio.

What surprise me the person who was driving was caught on 03/08/18 at 10:21 am and again 04/08/18 10:21 am on the same street. I just need advice what can I do clear my name and to unregister the car off my name.
 
Do you have any signed paperwork that shows transfer of ownership?
If you do - take that to the traffic dept and they will transfer the fine.
 
You should have removed it off your name when you sold it, using the COO forms available at your local traffic department. Why the garage that bought the car said the new owner will do it makes little sense since it is the previous owners responsibility.
 
I will check not sure I still have the contact details of the garage that bought my car.
 
I'm new at these things I was just happy to get the money didn't think of things like this.

I think its too late to ask why I didn't do this and this, what I need right now is how can I to fix this please.
 
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Oop. Youve created a problem for yourself on many levels. It's unfortunate that you didnt read the available info out there regarding selling a vehicle. What you've done is exposed yourself to quite a lot of trouble actually.
Firstly, it's the law that one needs to deregister a vehicle within 90 days (might not have the correct duration here).
What if the new driver causes a serious accident or death in this vehicle which is currently still yours? You'd be liable.
The only way to move forward now, will be to trace the new owner, who will then need to provide a signed transfer of owner form, with a copy of their ID book. This can actually turn out to be a nightmare. My advice; treat this as a serious matter, act fast and do everything you can in order to resolve this.
It's very poor on your part as there are procedures to sell a vehicle and now? Anyway, good luck.
 
Where can I start I spoke to the garage that bought the car, the guy said he will sort it out but I also need to act like you said. But where do I begin
 
semisane1987 said:
Where can I start I spoke to the garage that bought the car, the guy said he will sort it out but I also need to act like you said. But where do I begin
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Did the garage buy the car from you? Who paid you? If the garage bought the car from you they should have done a transfer of ownership with you, and you'd have handed over the registration papers to them. IMO you shouldn't actually have to deal with the new owner who is driving the car currently. Did the garage have the registration papers from you? How can they sell a vehicle otherwise? It also begs the question was the vehicle put through roadworthy by the garage during the sale? My opinion, the garage you sold the vehicle to=shady. If you still have the registration papers, DO NOT hand them over as this might be the only leverage you have at this point.
In the meantime, you might want to create an affidavit containing all of the info (sales receipt, garage owner, bank records of sale etc) and have this stamped so you at least have something there if this new 'owner' slams into the back of a Posche.
 
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itsme2 said:
Did the garage buy the car from you? Who paid you? If the garage bought the car from you they should have done a transfer of ownership with you, and you'd have handed over the registration papers to them. IMO you shouldn't actually have to deal with the new owner who is driving the car currently. Did the garage have the registration papers from you? How can they sell a vehicle otherwise?
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Yes the garage bought the car from me and I signed transfer paper. I'm also surprised why they didn't unregister the car from my name. I gave that guy everything and cancelled the insurance. I'm in Rustenburg the car is getting traffic fines in Pretoria.

What can I do to fix this to unregister the car even though I don't have the papers?.
 
I think you should take the signed transfer papers and receipts to your local traffic dept and ask them to remove you as owner of the vehicle. They'll advise you from there then. It's normally the seller who needs to go in and deregister the vehicle from their name (at least thats how Ive always done it, mostly, to avoid situations like youve been in).
 
semisane1987 said:
Where can I start I spoke to the garage that bought the car, the guy said he will sort it out but I also need to act like you said. But where do I begin
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Go to the traffic department and apply for a duplicate car certificate, since the car is still in your name, go to the garage and ask for the details of the buyer, call them and tell them you will scrap the car if he does not sort things out, also tell him that he has tickets to pay.
 
Spoke to garage guy he said he will fix this by tomorrow but I don't trust him. He said he loaned the car to a friend he is the one who accumulated those traffic fines.
 
itsme2 said:
I think you should take the signed transfer papers and receipts to your local traffic dept and ask them to remove you as owner of the vehicle. They'll advise you from there then. It's normally the seller who needs to go in and deregister the vehicle from their name (at least thats how Ive always done it, mostly, to avoid situations like youve been in).
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The papers are with the other guy.
 
thechamp said:
Go to the traffic department and apply for a duplicate car certificate, since the car is still in your name, go to the garage and ask for the details of the buyer, call them and tell them you will scrap the car if he does not sort things out, also tell him that he has tickets to pay.
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Thank you I think I'll do that tomorrow morning go to traffic department if possible scrap off the vehicle.
 
semisane1987 said:
Thank you I think I'll do that tomorrow morning go to traffic department if possible scrap off the vehicle.
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This is good advice, although there is quite a process involved to scrap a vehicle. It's not just a matter of saying "scrap it". For the time being, be nice to the garage who bought the car. Clearly they are dodgy. Traffic dept should have advice for you too. Good luck. Hope you get this sorted.
 
semisane1987 said:
Thank you I think I'll do that tomorrow morning go to traffic department if possible scrap off the vehicle.
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Get the certificate first to be on the safe side, it is not going to be issued on the spot. Try to sort things out with the guy, if everything else fails you have the certificate and you can go to the traffic department and do what you have to do.
 
itsme2 said:
This is good advice, although there is quite a process involved to scrap a vehicle. It's not just a matter of saying "scrap it". For the time being, be nice to the garage who bought the car. Clearly they are dodgy. Traffic dept should have advice for you too. Good luck. Hope you get this sorted.
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Exactly this.
 
Thanks I will do that tomorrow morning he said he will sort things out I should not stress, but after this I don't trust him.
 
This is for my future reference, if I want to sell a car and a dealer says leave the car at his shop so that he can put it on display, what's the best way forward ??
Also say I have a buyer(a direct buyer no dealer involved) who is paying in cash for my car, what steps needs to be taken before handing over the car ?
 
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