Range Rover Sport - dodgy history - should i care?
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Bought a Range rover sport 2007 TDV8 - nice spec and very clean interior (looks like a one person car, i.e. not family or doggy use)
Price seemed good for age and miles 95k @ 14k plus my 200k volvo so lets say circa 17k was cost to me.
Drives really nice and no warnings coming on etc. also has HST body kit that looks nice.
Has evidence of some cosmetic bodywork, i.e. resprayed bonnet and paint blended on the sides but again it looks solid and my garage said it has original bumpers and doors etc so no majors, plus its HPI clear for stolen or crashed.
MOT till march 2015 and no advisories but no old MOTs present.
My concern is that the stamp book is main dealer up to 45k at which point it had a 60k service. 3 years ago.
Then the stamps are from an "indie" but they dont check out as true, Ive followed it up and it seems they have been faked.
for a complete story, I can tell you, the last owner had the car 8 months and px'd to the bloke I got it from Ive a strong feeling that it could well be thathe got the vehicle and it may have not had the book stamped, so therefore decided to do it himself. i doubt its been clocked as the last stamp (which is genuine)is at 95k, so nobody would clock a car and make the miles so high, when they could have made it around 70k or something plausible.
should i just accept that Ive been tricked but got a nice car at a decent price and so what about the stamps in the book?
should i worry and persue this further?
Im a bit of a worry guts but is this good reason to worry?
edit:
Car also came with a private plate E15LMA (im told is worth about 900 quid!
and previous plate was BAL5A
(in case anybody by pure chance may know the vehicle)
Price seemed good for age and miles 95k @ 14k plus my 200k volvo so lets say circa 17k was cost to me.
Drives really nice and no warnings coming on etc. also has HST body kit that looks nice.
Has evidence of some cosmetic bodywork, i.e. resprayed bonnet and paint blended on the sides but again it looks solid and my garage said it has original bumpers and doors etc so no majors, plus its HPI clear for stolen or crashed.
MOT till march 2015 and no advisories but no old MOTs present.
My concern is that the stamp book is main dealer up to 45k at which point it had a 60k service. 3 years ago.
Then the stamps are from an "indie" but they dont check out as true, Ive followed it up and it seems they have been faked.
for a complete story, I can tell you, the last owner had the car 8 months and px'd to the bloke I got it from Ive a strong feeling that it could well be thathe got the vehicle and it may have not had the book stamped, so therefore decided to do it himself. i doubt its been clocked as the last stamp (which is genuine)is at 95k, so nobody would clock a car and make the miles so high, when they could have made it around 70k or something plausible.
should i just accept that Ive been tricked but got a nice car at a decent price and so what about the stamps in the book?
should i worry and persue this further?
Im a bit of a worry guts but is this good reason to worry?
edit:
Car also came with a private plate E15LMA (im told is worth about 900 quid!
and previous plate was BAL5A
(in case anybody by pure chance may know the vehicle)
Edited by wilpert on Thursday 19th June 15:09
Edited by wilpert on Thursday 19th June 15:11
I'd assume the last genuine stamp was the last time it's had anything and have a full service as soon as you can. I'd also be checking whether cambelts/chains and other necessary bits should have been done since the last genuine stamp and do those too.
Put it down to bad luck and carry on enjoying what you've got.
You can check previous MOTs online now too.
Put it down to bad luck and carry on enjoying what you've got.
You can check previous MOTs online now too.
scorcher said:
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