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VIL Sticker in the boot of a 944......

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Remembering when I was looking at 944s that I shyed away from a car where the sticker was missing and my Peter Morgan guide says no sticker could mean the car has been damaged in an accident........

From ebay.de listing (it is not my auction and I don't have a connection with the seller!)

Looks like a definite scrapper to me.....
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So how how important is the VIL now .......

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Makes you wonder what will happen to this..... BTW bidding is up to 1 Euro at the mo.

Phil

Edited to add - the description is quite funny too -
Here I offer top a maintained satinschwarzmetallic farbendes 944S2 Cabrio for the auction. The Porsche is Erstzulassung 8.Juni 1990. After the Porsche dealer it is in 3. Hand been, until the small "Parkrempler" sent into over Jordan. It is logged out since 1998. Fun aside: an accident let this lover vehicle on the motorway round run with speed 250 km/h against the guard rails and an exterior plate sound did not leave. Whether someone would like itself to make the trouble this rare car again to be developed is probably rather utopian, but not not possibly. It concerns here only the pure raw body with the doors. All other attachments such as engine, axles, chassis, cover, to interior equipment, climate, etc."¦ are missing and are also more missing. Further inquiries in this connection are thus useless! As equipment was blocked: Seat heating driver/front seat passenger side, differential lock, alarm installation, air conditioning system, ABS and leather seat (see photo with the M-numbers). The body did not twist apparently (give however no warranty on it!). Of course the original letter without additional entries is present. The vehicle had at that time a G-Kat ex factory, so that a re-coding on EURO2 does not represent a problem. The floor panel with the chassis number is completely intact. Is auctioneered only against self-service - NO DISPATCH, since I do not get the thing into a small package: -), or the buyer worries personally about a forwarding business! Payment within 3 days and collection within 10 days after auction end! Spassbietern threaten 30% of the offer costs. The sentence with my lawyer I save.
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Indeed, but when my car was rear-ended I asked the guy at the body shop to take care removing the sticker so I could keep it with my service history, but he said "don't worry about that, I can usually take them off without tearing and re-stick them in place". Indeed thats exactly what he's done - you couldn't tell that it has been removed and re-stuck. If I was a less honest person I could just keep quiet to the next owner about my little coming together with an Audi A3 and they would be non-the wiser. Of course I will be completely and totally honest. So just bear in mind that the sticker thing that seems to be the cornerstone advice in buyers guides is not 100% reliable - you still need to give the car a good look over for signs of accident damage or dodgy repairs.
 
So just bear in mind that the sticker thing that seems to be the cornerstone advice in buyers guides is not 100% reliable - you still need to give the car a good look over for signs of accident damage or dodgy repairs.
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And - just because it isn't there doesn't mean the car hasn't had an accident. Mine was peeling off nicely when I bought it because of the wet carpet from a leaky sunroof drain.

Never ceases to amaze me that the buyer's guides attach so much importance to this one little sticker....
 
I agree with Paul. It's pretty easy to fake a new one if you have your service book copy even if yours is currently missing - not that I have had to do that for mine.
 
Although my sticker is present I wouldnt put too much importance on the sticker being there.......after all these cars are old enough now for1.some sort of body damage and 2.I bet a few stickers have fallen off.
 
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