Dodgy car advert

[NicheMonkey]

Advertised with 70k miles MOT history check showing 229,000 miles in January 2016! Beware!

https://www.gumtree.com/p/audi/2005-audi-a3-tdi-a3...

[Glosphil]

The ad does state - "new engine with all the paper work". Presumably the stated mileage is since the new engine was fitted?

[anonymous-user]

I thought the same 70k on the new engine but obviously total mileage will be higher then average because its had a new engine?

[catso]

Glosphil said:

The ad does state - "new engine with all the paper work". Presumably the stated mileage is since the new engine was fitted?

But was it really a 'new' engine?

I ask because my Son recently drove his car through a flood and killed the engine. The cost of a fitting a new engine would be more than the car's worth and he doesn't want to claim on the insurance (young driver, huge increase after a claim etc.) so he's getting a used engine fitted for a reasonable price.

We have no way of verifying for certain the mileage of this engine but in all likelihood the 'new' engine will probably have done more miles than the original (car is very low mileage) so, should the mileage be 'reset' to zero, continue as is or be set to the mileage of the 'new' engine?

Either way, the rest of the vehicle has still done the miles...

[TonyRPH]

Take a look at the (fuzzy) clocks.

Does that look like 229k miles?

IIRC it's date on the left and miles / odo on the right?

[Super Slo Mo]

The ad says that it's 70,000 with FSH. Be interesting to see what the FSH actually consists of.

[myvision]

Ad says diesel mot checker says petrol.

[Dr G]

Ran it through HPI:

[Adrian E]

Surely there's nobody gullible enough to pay anywhere near that for it?! Even if the mileage was genuine, with it being cat D it's worth sweet FA in book value terms. with that galactic mileage it's worth about 10p

[catso]

Adrian E said:

Surely there's nobody gullible enough to pay anywhere near that for it?! Even if the mileage was genuine, with it being cat D it's worth sweet FA in book value terms. with that galactic mileage it's worth about 10p

Indeed, it looks like something that was built from leftovers at a breakers yard.

I recently sold an A3, 3.2, DSG, OK so it was a year older than this but was a genuine one-owner, full Audi history with just 90k and in immaculate condition - I wish I'd got half the asking price of this one...

[Dr G]

It got pulled; I presume I'm not the only one that hit the 'report' button

[Adrian E]

Dr G said:

It got pulled; I presume I'm not the only one that hit the 'report' button

I think you might be right there