BMW which BMW have no knowledge of! Advice sought

[kurt535]

A friend has a very low, low, low mile year 2000 BMW (less than 8000 miles) purchased from a private ltd dealer 3 years ago. It was registered new Dec 2000, one previous owner; HPI clear and has all MOT's but service history lost which he accepted due to the lack of miles it had done (supported by MOT's).

So, pal rang the premium rate BMW sex sorry, service history line (£1.00 a minute) and.....the car chassis number or reg does not exist! After he was bounced around between dealers and the premium rate, the customer care people (more reasonable 0370 number) declared the car was from Germany and had never been in the UK network. Front cover of V5C does not say anything about it being an import which backs up HPI report.

So here we have a car that looks like it has fallen between the cracks. I've just earwigged on my pal ringing the dealer he bought it from who had no interest in digging out who they bought the car from (suspect BMW trader to trader network) so right now he is confused and then some. I have ran out of ideas what's gone on here so if anyone can help, that would be great!

Ty in advance.

[kurt535]

Yip; did that one today - registers on there!

[kurt535]

Right, hands up I can't answer but have this pic as attached. After your comments, have noticed 'order option' 812 and 877?

[kurt535]

He has the HPI clean and green bill of health - cross checked against the Autotrader one tonight. all matches up. Really weird!!

[kurt535]

All!

Thank you for your feedback. I'll update on fresh news as it gets discovered.

The white lense bit is curious although the V5C states the car was registered new in the UK. Build date was Sept 2000 as well.

Maybe it's actually a kit car 😀😀