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past owners

Paulish · Guru

Yea id like to find out who painted my car blue(it was butternet)then red then candy apple red...and who took out the factory interior.

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

In Ontario you can purchase the used car package from the Ministry of Transportation. It lists all previous owners and the town they lived in at the time. It's a good start. Not sure if there is anything like that in other provinces.
Todd

beaumontguru · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Manitoba Public Insurance will not disclose any info about previous owners. Security risk. I am very surprised that ontario will give out that info.
All they can tell is if there were privious accident insurance claims.
And i don't think there records go back very far.

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

And Dave, they won't even tell us accident claims. All they will tell us is if it has been written off or not. Damage that was repaired they won't disclose, unless that changed very recently.

67BBSD · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Ontario MTO offices are actually only suppose to sell the used vehicle information package to the owner for the purpose of resale-we used to have to fill out a form stating who we were to purchase it-not anymore. The package does list the previous Ontario registered owners but I believe its their current city according to their driver's license. The dealers are not to disclose any previous owner's information.

Ken

Stephenzone · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

the ontario package only goes back so far. when i registered my 63, they had no info on it. i had to get an appraisal to verify the vin numbers. i am the second owner and it had expired ont plates for 73. the only reason i know i'm the second owners is that the car has sat up at a relatives farm and it belonged to his great aunts who now lives in NB

Astro Jet · Poncho Master!

69Laurentian wrote:

In Ontario you can purchase the used car package from the Ministry of Transportation. It lists all previous owners and the town they lived in at the time. It's a good start. Not sure if there is anything like that in other provinces.
Todd

But only as far back as the car has been continuously registered. For example, if the car was off the road and did not have valid plates for a few years, they will only give you info back to the last registered owner and all the previous owners get wiped off the system. If the car has not been registered for I believe 5 years, all of the records get wiped off the system and it is if the car had never been registered in Ontario.

Astro Jet · Poncho Master!

beaumontguru wrote:

Manitoba Public Insurance will not disclose any info about previous owners. Security risk. I am very surprised that ontario will give out that info.
All they can tell is if there were privious accident insurance claims.
And i don't think there records go back very far.

Before the "Used Vehicle Information Package" came out, you could do a search and find out all the previous owners, their driver's license numbers and their home addresses!!! That's because back in the good 'ol days, the only thing anyone was worried about was whether there was lien on the car and they wanted people to be able to do as complete a search as possible. Back then it was privacy-shmiracy!

Astro Jet · Poncho Master!

67BBSD wrote:

Ontario MTO offices are actually only suppose to sell the used vehicle information package to the owner for the purpose of resale-we used to have to fill out a form stating who we were to purchase it-not anymore. The package does list the previous Ontario registered owners but I believe its their current city according to their driver's license. The dealers are not to disclose any previous owner's information.

Ken

Now you can get it any time through one of those Service Ontario kiosks. All you need is a credit card and you can get just about anything you want....
Unless the previous owner's name is something like Smith, it still isn't that hard to track down the previous owner if you have a little patience.

ak 67sd · Poncho Master!

Hi Carl, I think you can 'buy' the damage report... I got one a few years ago for the wifes car which was a write off, but i received it from 'a friend'... it was handy checklist when checking the car over, so i could ask about what parts were replaced or fixed....

andrew

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

I think that was only because it's a write off. I am pretty sure if you try to find out about fixed damage, you can't.

loud · Addicted!

really to bad that a guy cant find out that info just for the interesting stories about the cars we own today instead of all those guys that say i own one of those back in the day its funny my model only 408 made but ive met more back in the day then that lol.