Quote (Secksii @ Mar 25 2020 03:48pm)
U work with cars, so u might have a better idea
My mother in law financed a 2016 Acura rdx last year, and her son got into an accident cuz someone ran a red and fucked the car up so bad it caught on fire. It was written off by icbc and they gave her a 21k cheque. She still pays the fiance company every month through auto pay, and basically there's 2k left to pay.
An auto shop bought the written off car from icbc to rebuild and sell? However he has all the info about my mom in law and called her to let her know that she still has money left to pay for the car. He said she needs to pay him 13k or he's gotta call collections and get money that way. He supposedly has been in contact with icbc but won't send the interaction email to our email, cuz we aren't the mom in law. Yet, he wants our phone # to send it that way? Lmao I think he's fishing for our personal phone #. Anyway, she was gonna go meet him at his workplace to get the documents and pay if she had to. At least until she told my wifu and I, and we said oh hell no lol. Called the dude back, and asked where's this 13k coming from? And why he's contacting her for money, blah blah blah. He basically says we aren't helping her out and he will just do it the hard way through collections. Oh and he was going to deliver the car to front of her place and just leave it there but we said don't even go near her place.
We called icbc, but they closed the case so they can't even open the file. The person in charge in was on vacay, didn't return any voicemail. This shit happened like last month and half.
He tryin to scam or wut? My guess is he can't sell the car cuz there's payment left and he's trying to rush her to pay it asap so he can sell the car asap? But where the fuck does the extra 11k come from? :rofl:
I know this has been discussed quite a bit already but I just want to hammer the point home that your mother in law has nothing to worry about.
Once a vehicle is totaled ICBC takes possession, writes you a cheque and takes ownership of the vehicle that was written off.
At that point your mother in law no longer owns the vehicle. She has no ties to it anymore and responsibility is eliminated.
She has an obligation to continue to make the payments (which she has) and nothing more is required of her.
ICBC is allowed to sell written off vehicles and the public is allowed to purchase them.
The buyer is responsible to do a lien cheque/title check to see if anything is owed on the vehicle. That information is available and fully transparent.
Either he neglected to do a lien check or bought they vehicle anyways hoping to fix it up and make money. Tough luck for him.... He obviously does not know wtf he is doing but that is his problem.
I would cease any contact with this moron. There is no legal obligation to continue to deal with him.
This post was edited by Killingyouall on Mar 25 2020 07:42pm