Does this sound right?

[Rocco1]

Black 6.0 Diablo that has just come up for sale at a well known delear mileage showing 9880.1st service which was due after 12 months or 1000miles gets carried out Sept 2003 with 2300 miles,2nd service Jan2005 mileage 6268 3rd service sept 2007 mileage 9619 and the last service was June 2011 mileage not recorded and waiting to get an answer why,all services was carried out by main agent London,so is it possible the car has only done 261 miles in 4 years.Looking at the way the mileage is showing i thought it would be around 15k!

[jdwcd]

SHOULD HAVE 2 FREE SERVICE STAMPS IN FRONT FROM MEMORY

[Rocco1]

Just got a call back, last service june 2011 mileage 9851,so in 4years its done around 260 miles thats 65 miles a year!

[Drclarke]

Sounds about as genuine as the Hitler diaries!

[iandc]

Either it's genuine and therefore lots of problems owing to non-use (seals etc) or as stated it looks mighty "odd" mileage. Either way best stay away I guess.

[Truffles]

Some diablos have very little mileage on them per year in recent times. My 6.0 did about 1k in the 4 years before I bought it, but I haven't had any problems apart from the starter motor. There are too few 6.0s around to worry too much about seals etc. You just have to figure in the maintenance bills.

[ferdi p]

Any old MOT's ?
Or
Can you find out where it was MOT'd in those 4 years ?

[andysv]

Tony my old Diablo didnt move once for two years but gave me no trouble at all, nothing leaked nothing siezed it had the usual starter motor issues (they get too hot by the exhaust) but that was it. As long as it has been serviced periodically i wouldn't worry too much.

[Truffles]

Heh, Starter motors are a consumable with Diablos.

[JazzyO]

Truffles said:

Some diablos have very little mileage on them per year in recent times. My 6.0 did about 1k in the 4 years before I bought it, but I haven't had any problems apart from the starter motor. There are too few 6.0s around to worry too much about seals etc. You just have to figure in the maintenance bills.

I would second that. Inspect the car, if it is decent go for it and factor in work to be done in the first year. If you really want a 6.0 this sounds like it could be a great car for the right enthousiastic owner. Black is a great colour for the Diablo, I think. Look at it this way - when you find another 6.0 it might have double the miles and less likely to give immediate problems, but you never know. In this car you could have enjoyed all those miles, maybe fixing some problems along the way, but by 20k miles she'd be perfect.


Onno

[JADF]

If it's from TH, surely it should all check out ok.

J

[Rocco1]

JADF said:

If it's from TH, surely it should all check out ok.

J

Yes its from TH and i dont doubt him for one moment,but its a one owner car and one crs can lose miles very easily,not that i am saying that this one has.It just seems rather odd the way the car has been driven that in last 4 years it has covered around 260 miles when previously its done around 1800 miles a year.Also the service history seems rather odd,1000s mile service or 12 months service done @ 2300 2 years later and so on!

[leeGT2]

Rocco1 said:

Just got a call back, last service june 2011 mileage 9851,so in 4years its done around 260 miles thats 65 miles a year!

It could be that the owner in the last 4 years added another car to his fleet as another weekend toy and simply kept the Diablo aside more as a collectors car? Look at the MOTs...

[Rocco1]

leeGT2 said:

It could be that the owner in the last 4 years added another car to his fleet as another weekend toy and simply kept the Diablo aside more as a collectors car? Look at the MOTs...

Just spoke to TH firstly he was not happy with me asking him questions and then refused to give me the document reference number found that very odd, when i explained i have spoken Lamborghini London to make sure the mileage was correct he then explained who the owner was(which i already knew)by this time he knew i genuine and gave me the document reference number.

From what i make out it has no MOT since 2007 have a look
Reg LJ51YDC document ref 11921820145

[Garlick]

Gents, it's a decent thread, let's not descend into N&S.....OP, please keep us updates with the story, but let's not jump to conclusions

[Dr G]

Lots of people do miniscule mileages in big supercars and it's rare that an extremely low mileage user will service it to the letter.

Buy the car on its own merit, not speculation.

[bryn_p]

I never understand why people find little or no mileage so odd.

I have a number of cars that have done less than 10 miles in the last year and some of them were not MOT'd either. Ideally I keep the MOT's up to date but sometimes it's just not practical to do so.

With a car like this Diablo I would say there's nothing at all unusual about it, as others have already said.

Cheers,
Bryn.

[Rocco1]

This car sounds 100% genuine,milage confirmed with Lamborghini London and spoke to the services department who know the car and said the owner hardly drove it! And just have a look at the pictures http://www.tomhartley.com/usedcar/LAMBORGHINI/Diab... ,sorry if i doubted the car,its only because of the car in Holland

[melvster]

Rocco1 said:

And just have a look at the pictures http://www.tomhartley.com/usedcar/LAMBORGHINI/Diab...

nuff said.

[Justices]

Just had a look at the shots on the TH link. Please get that into your garage without delay. It looks fantastic in black and sounds ideal to put some decent miles on without worrying if you ever (hopefully not) come to sell.