URGENT -About to buy approved used VW, Vcheck mileage is off

[einlondon]

About to buy approved used VW, Vcheck mileage is off.

Need to sort this in the morning, what would you do. Even if the 17k is wrong, it dropped to 1.1k a year for two years. This could be a 26k car being sold as an 11k car. Main dealer.

2021-12-12
9054
RMI MIL'GE


2022-11-30
17023
RMI MIL'GE


2023-06-12
11212
VMC

(numbers slightly fudged)

Edited by einlondon on Thursday 29th June 17:50

[Jamescrs]

I'd walk away from it, the dealership will no doubt give an excuse for it along the lines of input error but you will always wonder about it and when you come to move it on the next buyer will likely raise it as an issue too. plenty more cars out there

[soad]

Wouldn’t entertain it personally. Leave well alone?

Is MOT history showing the same? HPI check usually shows less.

[Truckosaurus]

einlondon said:

...Even if the 17k is wrong, it dropped to 1.1k a year for two years....

That's my thoughts as well. Maybe 1.1k a year might have been believable in 2020 if the owner had not left the house due to covid but not in 2023.

(I assume the mileage the car actually shows is still around 11k, rather than that being the typo and it being 21 or 31?)

I'd be minded to either get them to change it on the records or just walk away as there's literally thousands of Golves for sale.

[Krikkit]

I'd echo the above, walk away and find another.

[KTMsm]

Speaking as a Dealer it happens all the time - get the Dealer onto it

I've got a Mini showing a discrepancy - first one was a garage inputting the same mileage one month apart and it's a nice round number

Second one was an MOT where the DVLA clearly state it was in KM yet HPi had it down as miles

Similar probably affects 10% of cars

With a late car it's easy to look on the ECUs and it will confirm if there's been any tampering you get a message such as "mileage improbable" when the dash differs from the ECU etc

[Dolf Stoppard]

But this post is ‘URGENT’. We need to sort it fast.

Ask the dealer to investigate and if they can’t give you a decent explanation, with evidence, buy another car as it’s understandably worrying you.

[ninjag]

Sometimes the transmission stores the mileage as well and a good code reader should be able to read it. I would assume a good clocker would change it there as well though.

[MesoForm]

What does the car display the mileage as now? The last figure could be a typo - 11k when the car says 21k. But if the 26k mentioned is now that's an awful lot of miles in a couple of weeks!

[ChocolateFrog]

If it's a VW I'm sure there will be others without the dodgy mileage discrepancy.

Why would you risk it?

[einlondon]

Here is the full breakdown between VAG records and vcheck. Why was the first oil service done at 2k and 9 months when its due at 9k. Are VAG records (checked with another dealer) likely to be wrong??

[Pent]

defo inputted as KM

17k km is around 10.5k miles which stacks up.

not really a problem if the car checks out in the flesh

[Pent]

einlondon said:

Here is the full breakdown between VAG records and vcheck. Why was the first oil service done at 2k and 9 months when its due at 9k. Are VAG records (checked with another dealer) likely to be wrong??

some cars require gearbox servicing after a couple of thous miles like M cars.. maybe the buyer was very diligent and wanted to keep the car tip top

[Jamescrs]

I think as all the posts above demonstrate there are various ways to check the mileage discrepancy but whenever you come to sell the car on or trade it in the same questions will be raised all over again by whoever the trader or buyer is and it's not worth the hassle for a VW or any other mainstream car IMO

[einlondon]

>defo inputted as KM

>17k km is around 10.5k miles which stacks up.

>not really a problem if the car checks out in the flesh

Look closer - or they knocked the leading 1 off!

[KTMsm]

Essentially it isn't the OPs problem - there's no way an approved car should have any discrepancy

I trade from home and I clear up any issues like this before selling or I publicise the issue along with a healthy discount

[Dan W.]

post the reg or send me a pm can investigate further.

[Chamon_Lee]

Hi OP,

I had this with a recent car I was looking into it, The millage in question is the VMC one and from what I could gather online it is an unreliable recording, it could be correct but more likely to be wrong however this can be checked and corrected by the person who currently has a hold of the car.

[bennno]

einlondon said:

>defo inputted as KM

>17k km is around 10.5k miles which stacks up.

>not really a problem if the car checks out in the flesh

Look closer - or they knocked the leading 1 off!

Or accidentally knocked one off

[Whataguy]

einlondon said:

Why was the first oil service done at 2k and 9 months when its due at 9k. Are VAG records (checked with another dealer) likely to be wrong??

First service is 12 months from manufacture rather than registration I believe, cars that have sat around before being registered can find that they have less warranty and need an early service as the service time clock has been running already.