The main problem with these ebay "kits" is when they are sold on valuable cars, Fords suffer with this terribly.
So a typical scenario:
Ebayer has a rotten knackered piles of bits with logbook, vin plate for a desirable car such as a MK1 Escort RS2000.
Dodgy purchaser/car thief buys this item and then goes looking for a mint RS2000.
Purchaser steals car himself (or orders it to be stolen) and then has the tags swapped over/plates made etc. Stores said car until dust has settled then discovers "barn find" RS2000 and sells for massive profit.
Unsuspecting new buyer now has a rung car but nobody is the wiser.
In the 90s is was estimated nearly 50% of all Cosworths had at some point been stolen, there are a lot of cars out there wearing registrations/vins they never used to.
Sad really, not relevant much in this case as its usually only desirable classics that suffer this.
Last edited by NickCW; 19/01/17 03:27 PM.
