Old Car for sale with less miles than when Sold
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Interesting one this....
Part ex-ed the old Jag S-Type against a 318d last month at a BMW main dealer. The Jag had been sitting there for the past month whilst the old registration plate was taken off but it has all been sorted now and we have had the certificate through the post. Browsing through the website of a very large car auction group I notice what I am 99% sure is our old car for sale (shared between my dad and myself) although with 20k less miles on the clock.
As it has a new registration i can't be 100% although it seems a little odd that marks that were present on ours (missing headlight washer cover, broken ashtray permanently open and white golf club sticker in front windscreen) look to be on this one, a car of the same age, same colour, same interior, same spec, same engine etc.
I have tried to phone the auction centre but due to the day there was nobody to answer....
I don't know if i can link to the car due to naming and shaming but it is being sold on the 12th at an auction centre in the South, that car had some issues when we sold it and when combined with what looks to be clocking I don't want somebody to get a pup!
Part ex-ed the old Jag S-Type against a 318d last month at a BMW main dealer. The Jag had been sitting there for the past month whilst the old registration plate was taken off but it has all been sorted now and we have had the certificate through the post. Browsing through the website of a very large car auction group I notice what I am 99% sure is our old car for sale (shared between my dad and myself) although with 20k less miles on the clock.
As it has a new registration i can't be 100% although it seems a little odd that marks that were present on ours (missing headlight washer cover, broken ashtray permanently open and white golf club sticker in front windscreen) look to be on this one, a car of the same age, same colour, same interior, same spec, same engine etc.
I have tried to phone the auction centre but due to the day there was nobody to answer....
I don't know if i can link to the car due to naming and shaming but it is being sold on the 12th at an auction centre in the South, that car had some issues when we sold it and when combined with what looks to be clocking I don't want somebody to get a pup!
A good percentage of used cars have had a haircut at some stage. I sold a 68k mile car to a dealer.
18 months later a chap tipped up at the house to ask me a few questions about engine mods. He bought it from someone who'd bought it from the dealer. I told him about the work I'd had done and looked over the car with him. It had only 64k on the clock. It was his pride and joy so I couldn't bring myself to p1ss on his parade.
18 months later a chap tipped up at the house to ask me a few questions about engine mods. He bought it from someone who'd bought it from the dealer. I told him about the work I'd had done and looked over the car with him. It had only 64k on the clock. It was his pride and joy so I couldn't bring myself to p1ss on his parade.
Would the auctioneer be bothered even if you did contact them? I'm not trying to be sarcastic and funny I'm just genuinely curious to know and if someone knows the answer.
I know when I went looking for a car at the auction it had a tag with a little info on it and one of the categories was if the mileage was confirmed or not.
So I'm guessing they're not bothered about selling cars that have been clocked, after all everyone who buys a car at an auction knows it's bought as seen.
I know when I went looking for a car at the auction it had a tag with a little info on it and one of the categories was if the mileage was confirmed or not.
So I'm guessing they're not bothered about selling cars that have been clocked, after all everyone who buys a car at an auction knows it's bought as seen.
I sold a 205 GTi in 2005 that had done 145k. Peugeot had replaces the clocks at c100k, which was all in the service history. The car was very tidy for its age / mileage as it was resold for significantly more as a 45k car! Presumably with no service history or the buyer was very silly! So if anyone has a red 1.6 GTi with the reg H191 SYC bad luck!
rallycross said:
PRobably a different car if you dont recognise the reg number, it goes back to the number plate it had before you put the plate on it, you must have an idea of what the number was originally?
If not sure do an hpi check and it will list its current and any previous plates.
It was registered from new to the plateIf not sure do an hpi check and it will list its current and any previous plates.
It would be usual practice for you to get the new V5 back with the replacement number as it was originally in your name, and then for you to forward it on to the dealer minus the yellow bit, otherwise there is another needless name on the V5. I'd be interested to learn how your dealer has gone about this particular transfer.
Edited by Plug550 on Sunday 9th October 20:26
I also note that you're also quite happy to unload a car 'with issues' to a dealer, but are concerned that they might be passing it off to someone else! Jeez... 
Don't get me wrong, if what you say is true, then they should be strung up by the short and curlies, name and shamed, the full works. But I can't see a BMW dealer getting to vexed by your old S Type.
Just another dealer bashing thread.
Don't get me wrong, if what you say is true, then they should be strung up by the short and curlies, name and shamed, the full works. But I can't see a BMW dealer getting to vexed by your old S Type.
Just another dealer bashing thread.
caziques said:
Every car with a private plate also has an original plate issued to it (even if the private plate is on from new).
The original plate never changes and will be reallocated if a private plate is removed.
didn't know that I always thought you just got an unused reg from a pool of the same year?The original plate never changes and will be reallocated if a private plate is removed.
p.s. if its the same car and its not a print/honest mistake i.e. ODO still gives correct milage than report to trading std's
Plug550 said:
I also note that you're also quite happy to unload a car 'with issues' to a dealer, but are concerned that they might be passing it off to someone else! Jeez...
Don't get me wrong, if what you say is true, then they should be strung up by the short and curlies, name and shamed, the full works. But I can't see a BMW dealer getting to vexed by your old S Type.
Just another dealer bashing thread.
Not at all they were 100, i even got my car from them....the issues weren't that major, gearbox judder which threw an error and meant that the car had to be turned off an on for the gearbox to work properly and possible faulty climate unit - temp gauge always under-reading by up to 15 degrees and thus not really working, it drove spot on but an increase to 40k miles a year made a case for selling it.Don't get me wrong, if what you say is true, then they should be strung up by the short and curlies, name and shamed, the full works. But I can't see a BMW dealer getting to vexed by your old S Type.
Just another dealer bashing thread.
The car was registered on a private XX04XXX plate (model year) - Dealer arranged the swap of plate in its entirety on our behalf.
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