Purchasing car with missed service

[shayne66]

Wagonwheel555 said:

Its missed a service then, therefore does not have Full Service History.

Some dealers will not buy cars without full dealer history so if you plan to trade in later on, you may find its more difficult but in terms of value its unlikely to make a huge difference considering the low mileage of the car anyway. If it was a 60k car that had done 30k between services, I would walk away from it.

The fact it's a 1 owner and done no mileage during that year keeps mind at rest with the missing service.

Also potential future trade in, the misses has kept her 59 plate Abarth 500 for the last 6/7 years so she's very likely to keep this the same or longer. She gets pretty attached and doesnt like getting rid of anything.

[b9boy]

shayne66 said:

The fact it's a 1 owner and done no mileage during that year keeps mind at rest with the missing service.

Also potential future trade in, the misses has kept her 59 plate Abarth 500 for the last 6/7 years so she's very likely to keep this the same or longer. She gets pretty attached and doesnt like getting rid of anything.

I think you're taking the right approach OP. I'm surprised to hear the strength of some of the comments about part service history etc. Given it's done practically no mileage, and will be serviced less than 1,000 miles after it's last one you'll be fine. As you rightly point out it's difficult to be overly picky anyway so the dealer isn't going to take a beating on this car.

IF you weren't keeping the car for a length of time and IF the car market was on it's knees, IF it was a Ferrari and IF it voided two years of warranty you'd have plenty to worry about but I'd sleep very easy at night on this one!

[shayne66]

b9boy said:

I think you're taking the right approach OP. I'm surprised to hear the strength of some of the comments about part service history etc. Given it's done practically no mileage, and will be serviced less than 1,000 miles after it's last one you'll be fine. As you rightly point out it's difficult to be overly picky anyway so the dealer isn't going to take a beating on this car.

IF you weren't keeping the car for a length of time and IF the car market was on it's knees, IF it was a Ferrari and IF it voided two years of warranty you'd have plenty to worry about but I'd sleep very easy at night on this one!

Yeah, think it's a sensible approach, have asked on the Abarth pages on facebook and many of the owners have said the same thing. Due to age, lack of mileage on car and lack if mileage between service.none of them would be too put off by it. At least, with their owners view points it gives you an idea of resale privately.

Also, found out that only 3000 Rivale's are in the world of this edition (they did an even more limited 175 edition) with not many been in the uk.