What Happened to this Explorex?

Shane, Is that register a national one - or State based only?

All vehicles classified as written off by insurance Companies go on a national register called NEVDIS. (National Exchange of Vehicle & Driver Information System) You can find out if a vehicle is on the WOVR (Written Off Vehicle Register) by contacting your State licensing authority with the VIN but there is no obligation on the seller (unless it is being auctioned) to tell a buyer that it is on the WOVR. It is up to a prospective buyer to make that enquiry just as applies if it were listed as stolen or there was outstanding finance payments to be made. i.e. Caveat Emptor = Let the buyer beware. FYI the are two types of write off categories. Statutory Write Off = Can never be registered for road use again but can be used for parts. Economic Write Off = The insurance Company has decided for economic reasons to pay out the policy based on the market value/agreed value or whatever to the insured. Sometimes the insured will choose to buy the wreck back off the insurance Company and repair the vehicle. One important thing to bear in mind is that if the vehicle is not insured or if the vehicle is under insured or the insurance Company denies the claim (e.g. Drunk driver, etc) then it is possible that whilst the vehicle would be classed as a write off it may never be entered on the WOVR. The only way such a vehicle can be recorded on the WOVR is if it were to be 'reported' by a 'responsible person' or 'authority'.

If you google PPSR, you can do your own search to see if what your looking at is on the Written Off Vehicle Register for a fee, It would cost me the princely sum of $3.70 for me to check my cruiser by rego if it has encumbrance or been put on to WOVR
As Blown4by has outlined, it up to the "good" people to record onto the WOVR (It's the law), however any auction house or dealer MUST record damaged vehicles.

As far as I can tell it was once just a state thing, but now it is federal register

Shane

Graeme,

The van is being auctioned on 18/04/2012 by Pickles at a place called Welshpool in WA. I presume the photo was taken on the auction yard.
Thats all I know - I was just searching for caravans being auctioned and I came across it. You are correct - for significant damage it seems remarkably well preserved structurally - but would need a closer inspection to be sure. I am not interested in buying it (I am in Qld) but I couldn't work out in my mind how it would have sustained such damage on both sides only-jyst interested to know.

Graeme,
When I saw the Explorex I went "oh no". Phew !
Willie

thanks Willie ! need a few nuggets to repair that one.......

called auctioneers they say it was a rollover find out more at auction

Well that is quite amazing structurally for a rollover. I passed a rollover on the Bruce Highway a few years ago and it was squashed to about 1 metre high.
Cheers.