Reporting a dealer
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Sold my car last week via CarWow, out of interest i looked up the trader who bought it to see what they are selling it for. It's listed on their website with over 20k less miles than it had and with a full stamped service history which it didn't have, it was only partial and they never took any of it with them, i still have it here. So not only has it been clocked but been given false service history by the sounds of it
Obviously i don't care as it's not my car but someone is about to get stitched up
What's funny is that the advert states a full service done at xxx miles but the MOT mileage from today is lower
Obviously i don't care as it's not my car but someone is about to get stitched up
What's funny is that the advert states a full service done at xxx miles but the MOT mileage from today is lower
I've tried to do this before, and sadly, got largely nowhere.
CAB will only deal with this with a person that's bought a car.
And once, many moons ago, when i actually got to speak to a trading standards officer, was told the same.
Autotrader may take an interest if it's on their site, there's a "report advert" tab, they might remove the advert.
What you describe is actually fraud. But actually getting the Police to deal with this? I'd be surprised if they'll take it on.
Makes my pee boil, but getting any thing done to prevent this is almost impossible.
Let us know if you have any success.
I'd def let Carwow know though.
CAB will only deal with this with a person that's bought a car.
And once, many moons ago, when i actually got to speak to a trading standards officer, was told the same.
Autotrader may take an interest if it's on their site, there's a "report advert" tab, they might remove the advert.
What you describe is actually fraud. But actually getting the Police to deal with this? I'd be surprised if they'll take it on.
Makes my pee boil, but getting any thing done to prevent this is almost impossible.
Let us know if you have any success.
I'd def let Carwow know though.
Edited by Trevor555 on Monday 11th August 15:04
Iirc, if you have the VIN you can notify the car checking companies so that it comes up as a mileage issue - I'll add that I've only heard/ read this and never actually tried, but I think you might be able to record the mileage when you sold it.
Also looks like DVSA are an option if you've not tried them yet.
Also looks like DVSA are an option if you've not tried them yet.
I sold a car to a dealership in a part exchange deal.
The car quite a long time later showed up on AT at a dealership about 300 miles away from me. The dents and rear bumper all repaired. Car looked nice in the adverts. The advert included shots of the fully stamped service book, that was kind of odd as it had no service book when I sold it. BMW service records on the car display and a load of invoices from me. You could make out dates stamps mileage etc for each service. The car was advertised with 22k less miles than when it left me. This gave it 18 k miles less than the last Mot records showed.
I contacted the garage as a buyer and asked them some very detailed questions about the car, service history and previous owners etc. I did not get a reply and the advert was gone the same day.
The car quite a long time later showed up on AT at a dealership about 300 miles away from me. The dents and rear bumper all repaired. Car looked nice in the adverts. The advert included shots of the fully stamped service book, that was kind of odd as it had no service book when I sold it. BMW service records on the car display and a load of invoices from me. You could make out dates stamps mileage etc for each service. The car was advertised with 22k less miles than when it left me. This gave it 18 k miles less than the last Mot records showed.
I contacted the garage as a buyer and asked them some very detailed questions about the car, service history and previous owners etc. I did not get a reply and the advert was gone the same day.
Auto810graphy said:
Are you sure? I thought NMR entries came from
DVLA, BVRLA and Epyx.
Some tool a few years ago done an HPI on a car I was selling and put in a random mileage and it caused me issues when trading the car in as it was showing a mileage discrepancy at the car dealership that I had to sort with HPI before I could get the car traded in. DVLA, BVRLA and Epyx.
OverSteery said:
How 'big' is the dealer? If it's medium or larger outfit, a letter to the director registered at companies house might cause some fun and games for someone!
When i say dealer i mean trader, it wasn't a big sale, the garage is pretty big however, they've got around 200 cars for sale, a lot of cars in the higher mileage bracket. The director of the company was one of the guys who came to collect it so you know full well they work on his instruction. Without giving too much information they were some of our "ethnic cousins" mikeyr said:
I would contact the dealer and point it the inconsistencies so they can change the advert (being charitable to them by assuming an error). Does the current mileage undercut that listed on the MOT?
It was MOT'd today with the adjusted mileage, shows as around 3k miles since last year where i've actually done around 70 miles a day for the past 18 months Gassing Station | Car Buying | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff