Put a deposit down on a car with a mileage discrepancy

[boxxer7]

I’ve put a deposit down on an Audi S4, checked the Mot history just after paying the £99 reservation (it’s refundable).

Dealer (Peugeot main dealer) is advertising it with 67,000 but the MOT history has it at 103,000. Spoke with the dealer and they said that the previous owner had been living in France and when it went for an mot at the Audi main dealer they have put it down as miles when the owner had the digital dash set as kilometers. (Previous 2 mots the mileage was in km’s and recorded correctly)

This checks out roughly as the car was MOT’ed in September last year and will have done some miles since then.

They’ve informed me that they’ve submitted the paper work to have it corrected, planning to go to view the car at the weekend but I’m not sure if I should hold out collecting the vehicle until the discrepancy has been resolved?

[RD-1]

Sounds like it could be legit, but there are so many examples on here where the dealer loses interest in resolving issues once they have your money.

I would wait it out until it’s sorted.

There are plenty of other S4s available if you lose out.

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I suspect that an Audi main dealer can download the history from the ECU and verify the mileage. (Not 100% sure if that's true but I'm told it can be done). Although the dealership story sounds plausible to be fair.
I had a JDM Shogun for a while which the MoT people kept recording mileage from the kilometre odometer. PITA.

As RD-1 suggests, waiting for the dealership to verify officially costs nothing and you shouldn't lose out, having paid a deposit.

Don't worry

[boxxer7]

Thanks for the replies, yes I think its a genuine mistake and caught me off guard initially, but the dealer was upfront as soon as I asked about the mileage she asked had I looked at the MOT history and explained.

Holding on to collect was my first thought as mentioned by RD-1 I don't want them to loose interest in getting it resolved.

Edited by boxxer7 on Wednesday 21st February 23:00

[Summit_Detailing]

As above, hang fire until the dealer has it amended....in theory they'd need to do that regardless if you buy it or someone else down the line anyway.

[JaredVannett]

Until it's 100% resolved you are buying this "problem".

[Trevor555]

It just shows this dealer isn't doing thorough checks when buying their stock.

I can assure you, most dealers simply won't buy a car with a discrepancy like that, even if does appear to be genuine.

So as already said, 100% wait until this is resolved.

[boxxer7]

Trevor555 said:

It just shows this dealer isn't doing thorough checks when buying their stock.

I can assure you, most dealers simply won't buy a car with a discrepancy like that, even if does appear to be genuine.

So as already said, 100% wait until this is resolved.

Yes its amazing that they have taken it in i'm assuming as a part exchange (its a franchise dealer but not Audi).

[Trevor555]

boxxer7 said:

Trevor555 said:

It just shows this dealer isn't doing thorough checks when buying their stock.

I can assure you, most dealers simply won't buy a car with a discrepancy like that, even if does appear to be genuine.

So as already said, 100% wait until this is resolved.

Yes its amazing that they have taken it in i'm assuming as a part exchange (its a franchise dealer but not Audi).

That explains it, some of the dross I've seen taken in PX

Inexperienced car sales person has a quick look around a car, keen to get a deal done, doesn't really care, doesn't really know much about cars.

Plenty like that slip through the net.

[Sir Bagalot]

Walk, because when you come to sell you'll have the same issues x 10