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Karl Smith Car Sales Limited

Registered as KARL SMITH CAR SALES LIMITED · Company number 04583955 · Insolvency notice published 30 September 2026

If Karl Smith Car Sales Limited owes your business money, this page shows what the public record says and what you can do about it. Everything here comes from public filings, and links back to them.

What the public record shows

An insolvency notice naming Karl Smith Car Sales Limited (company number 04583955) was published in The Gazette on 30 September 2026. That is the date the notice appeared, which is not necessarily the date the company stopped trading.

The statement of affairs

A statement of affairs was filed at Companies House on 7 October 2026. It is the document that lists who the company owes money to, and how much. Read the filing itself.

  • We could read 29 creditors from the filing.
  • 21 of them are companies we could match to the Companies House register, and they are named below.
  • Those companies are recorded as owed £95,659 between them. That is not the total owed by the company, only the part we can attribute to matched companies.

The companies Karl Smith Car Sales Limited owes money to

As listed on the statement of affairs, largest first. Only creditors that are companies on the Companies House register appear here. Individuals and sole traders listed on the filing are not shown. A name without a link is one we could not tie to a single Companies House record with confidence, so we show it as the filing wrote it.

CreditorRecorded as owed
Capify UK LLCCompany number OE033116£21,561
Martin Brown Paints£14,389
Octane LtdCompany number 11392928£11,155
NextGear Capital UK LimitedCompany number 08696123£9,771
GSF LtdCompany number 10796222£9,144
British Car Auction LimitedCompany number 00438886£6,765
Oak Tyres UK LimitedCompany number 02001038£4,594
AutoTrader LimitedCompany number 03909628£4,314
Gauntlet Cars LtdCompany number 03715573£4,000
Jones Harris LimitedCompany number 03198953£2,669
Warranty Solutions Group LTDCompany number 13257955£2,220
Best Plate£949
The Fuelcard Company UK LtdCompany number 05939102£777
AA - Used Cars£768
Road & Rally£764
Everflow LimitedCompany number 09651912£486
ISN Europe LtdCompany number 04469528£420
Autoglym LimitedCompany number 01480449£413
Flogas Britain LtdCompany number 00993638£317
Trace Debt Recovery UK LimitedCompany number 10079126£182
InvestecCompany number 03633621£1

These names and figures were read automatically by software from a scanned filing, so treat them as a guide and the filing itself as the truth. If your company is named here and you would rather it was not, or anything on this page is wrong, write to info@kestrelalert.com and we will correct it or take it down. You do not need to give a reason.

If you are owed money

You will normally need to submit a proof of debt to the insolvency practitioner handling the case. Their details are on the Gazette notice and on the company's filing history. These explain what that means in practice, and what your realistic prospects are.

Owed money by Karl Smith Car Sales Limited?

Watch it free and we will email you, in plain English, whenever something new is filed, such as a progress report, a dividend to creditors, or its dissolution. By the time a notice like this is published, the money is usually gone, and the warning signs were filed at Companies House months earlier, so the same watch on the customers you still trade with is how you find out before the next one.

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Built from public records: Companies House filings and notices published in The Gazette, which contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This page is general information, not financial, credit or legal advice. To have it corrected or removed, write to info@kestrelalert.com.