Bloody clockers

[Parrot of Doom]

Selling my dad's car, I just HPI'd it and noticed that a few years back (well before he bought it) about 70,000 miles managed to disappear from the clock.

Apart from being extremely fking annoyed (I'm selling it for someone else so I won't lose anything, but it still means my dad paid a bit over the odds), how do these things tend to affect buyers? I've updated the car's advert and been completely honest, and I've dropped the price, but if you were buying a car, and presuming you weren't worried about high miles, would the discrepancy put you off?

More than anything I'm pissed off because my mum is now going to get less for the car than I originally told her. I know that pretty much every second hand car out there has probably lost some miles at some point, but its still incredibly annoying.

[EDLT]

Its going to put off some buyers off, and you'll probably get some chancers wanting to buy the car for nothing so they can sell it without mentioning the missing miles.

Expect the odd email that says "luk m8 iv gt [half your car's value] CASH tke it or leev it"

How many miles should it have?

[*Al*]

Happened to me in the past, sold the car at a loss and took it on the chin.

[Parrot of Doom]

It's got about 92,000 on the clock, I reckon it should have at least 170,000.

[Defcon5]

Whats the car?

[Parrot of Doom]

Discovery TD5. The annoying thing is I've been driving it for a week or two, and its utterly solid. The wear on the steering wheel made me a little suspicious but otherwise the condition is excellent.

Edited by Parrot of Doom on Wednesday 29th December 23:52

[*Al*]

Parrot of Doom said:

It's got about 92,000 on the clock, I reckon it should have at least 170,000.

Ouch!

[edo]

Parrot of Doom said:

I know that pretty much every second hand car out there has probably lost some miles at some point, but its still incredibly annoying.

sorry for your folks situation, but that's bks.

Edited by edo on Thursday 30th December 00:15

[Herman Toothrot]

If your honest about it and show it's been cared for and trouble free in your ownership I'd happily pay close to he value of one with the estimated mileage. I would have bought an Audi A6 4.2 Quattro sport a few weeks ago knowing it was clocked, what finished the hope of the dealer selling it was the bull he spouted about it trying to claim it's some paperwork error, just forget it etc if he'd said yes, paperwork doesn't add up the real mileage is about x I'd have had it.

[Parrot of Doom]

Thanks Herman that's nice to know. Mileage doesn't bother me either, its condition every time.

[thinfourth2]

Parrot of Doom said:

Thanks Herman that's nice to know. Mileage doesn't bother me either, its condition every time.

After watching an old guy take 10 minutes to park at 5000Rpm I think milage is irrelevant

[epom]

again unfortunately clocking is everywhere now, with the amount of cars coming over here from yourselves all with good specs at seemingly way better prices i think its a lot worse here as people arent as savvy to it, yet !!

[Lordglenmorangie]

Got caught out last year, a one owner car bought from a pensioner, very friendly chap and a good house. Would have bet money he was straight as a die ( in fact I did bet money ) and lost. As 20,000 miles or more were lost, it's hard to tell when they start messing with the milage.

Bloody old tosser