Advice: Irregular mot mileage on 19 Panamera

[PistonTim]

biggbn said:

Plenty of used cars. Walk away and don't give it a second thought.

This, plus the frequency of MOT.

If it raises questions here it will raise questions with buyers further down the line!

[elan362]

Personally, I would not take the risk, Unless priced well under market value.

Even accepting the mistake is innocent and non sinister, for me, It is just too much hassle, and every question you have now, another buyer may have in the future, and this will reduce the market for selling the car on, and probably result in a below market value price.

There are plenty clean examples around

[georgeyboy12345]

As above, walk away. On a £3000 shed it’s probably acceptable, on a 60 grand newish Porsche it absolutely isn’t

[SWoll]

C70R said:

I have no idea why the car has been tested 3 times in 15 months, but it could be something as simple as a dealer putting a fresh ticket on it to sell. I feel like jumping to controversial conclusions is probably not helpful to the OP.

Controversial?

Is it a rare care? No

Is it cheap? No

Therefore any red flags = walk away, as no reason to take any risk at all.

[MDMA .]

MitchT said:

MDMA . said:

Has it been a taxi with a mileage blocker perhaps?

I'd like to know who's running a Panamera as a taxi?

Sorry. Last night when the OP posted, it wasn’t in this section or have the title it does now. Sure it was just a random topic of discrepancy.

[Belle427]

I see a fair few of these threads popping up recently.
Is it that difficult to type in some numbers on a computer?
Personally I'd walk away from it as I can't quite get my head around mis types.

[AKjr]

SWoll said:

C70R said:

I have no idea why the car has been tested 3 times in 15 months, but it could be something as simple as a dealer putting a fresh ticket on it to sell. I feel like jumping to controversial conclusions is probably not helpful to the OP.

Controversial?

Is it a rare care? No

Is it cheap? No

Therefore any red flags = walk away, as no reason to take any risk at all.

I'd agree with this. There'll always be another one available, just like there'll always be a question mark over this car - especially when it comes time for you to sell and the potential buyers either walk away or start hardballing.

Neeeext.

[ZX10R NIN]

Do a VCheck & it will tell you if it was used as a taxi/chauffeur service.

[mostlymauiwaui]

Macron said:

And herein lies your problem OP,

Half your prospective future buyers ain't having this shonkiness, the other half apparently embrace it.

Quite why you'd wish to own any vehicle with a reduction in possible buyers when it's already a niche is beyond me (I'm in the former 50%), but you believe whatever jackanory they come up with to try and explain the indefensible this far after the fact.

I'm also in this camp of thinking, like someone said, if it scares me, it will scare others.

[mostlymauiwaui]

barryrs said:

I wouldn’t even bother going to look at it. Not only is there a mileage discrepancy but the mot dates make no sense for a privately owned car.

I think what has likely happened is that it was MOT'd by the private owner, then when it went to the dealer as a PX or whatever, they did another MOT to help the sell the car (with a fresh 12 month MOT)? Only a guess...

[mostlymauiwaui]

Thank you to everyone who chipped in I needed this sounding board. It seems the majority of your are aligned with my instincts.

I have decided to leave this car alone and not go to view it. It’s a lot of money to spend with something that has a question mark over it. It’s not even that cheap, comparable to Porsche Used Approved from main dealers.

Another red flag was the dealer never contacted me back after asking 2 days ago… especially as I had expressed genuine interest to buy at the time.

Now I just have to be patient and wait for another car to show up on the market ;-)

The car: Panamera V6 E-Hybrid Sport Turismo (black).

[PistonTim]

mostlymauiwaui said:

Macron said:

And herein lies your problem OP,

Half your prospective future buyers ain't having this shonkiness, the other half apparently embrace it.

Quite why you'd wish to own any vehicle with a reduction in possible buyers when it's already a niche is beyond me (I'm in the former 50%), but you believe whatever jackanory they come up with to try and explain the indefensible this far after the fact.

I'm also in this camp of thinking, like someone said, if it scares me, it will scare others.

Thats a really phrase for it!