Autotrader Ad seller misleading ?
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There is a Porsche Boxster on Autotrader, low miles and two owners so the ad states but it also says five owners because of personalised number changes. I have three cars with p/p have transferred one from one car to another and was still shown as one owner when I sold the car. Have things changed or is the seller either wrong or bulls
tting ?
tting ?P4T said:
We refer to them as story cars..
If theres a story with it then maybe its made up!
Yep. Then I walk away.If theres a story with it then maybe its made up!
It's like the 2 owner car that's actually a 4 owner car but apparently it doesn't count as they're all relations.
(I'm not even bothered about high owners if the price reflects it)
Whenever I buy a car, my mate always asks me "how many owners has it had?". It's the first thing out of his mouth, but I really don't get this obsession with with the number of previous owners tbh.
My 2003 M3 has had 8 owners, but the service history is very good, and it drives spot on at 130000 miles. That's good enough for me.
My 2003 M3 has had 8 owners, but the service history is very good, and it drives spot on at 130000 miles. That's good enough for me.
HTP99 said:
Baz Tench said:
My 2003 M3 has had 8 owners, but the service history is very good, and it drives spot on at 130000 miles. That's good enough for me.
Such a good car that everyone wants to own it!!Ok, I went a little off topic there, but I think my point stands. I just buy on condition, I didnt even ask about the number of owners. It probably did me a favour by scaring everyone else off.
Amount of owners does matter, certainly when you're the dealer trying to sell the car. People always ask, and making apologies, excuses and justifications about cars with lots of owners becomes tiresome, and so I try to seek out cars with few owners when I'm buying them to sell instead. It's just a buying habit of people in this country - always has been, there is a stigma attached with cars that have had lots of owners in a short space of time.
The likes of BMW M3s, Audi TTs and Mazda RX8s are typical of this. Sure, the proposition of owning these cars sounds great, and they're affordable too. But then you have to stick fuel in them and insure it and so keeping the car soon becomes unviable, and the impracticality starts to p*ss you off. You fall out of love. 6 months later they're back on autotrader.
I know of a low mileage 08 plate RX8 with 11 previous owners; that's a football team in four years! Needless to say, it's still for sale.
The likes of BMW M3s, Audi TTs and Mazda RX8s are typical of this. Sure, the proposition of owning these cars sounds great, and they're affordable too. But then you have to stick fuel in them and insure it and so keeping the car soon becomes unviable, and the impracticality starts to p*ss you off. You fall out of love. 6 months later they're back on autotrader.
I know of a low mileage 08 plate RX8 with 11 previous owners; that's a football team in four years! Needless to say, it's still for sale.
Its not unusual for high end cars to have a very quick turnover of owners....Ferrari's etc, and cars like M3's - I think poeple like to say "I've owned one of them..."
You could look at it as every time the car has changed owners, it probably would have been prep'd and brought back to its best. Arguably better than it sitting in someone garage for years, unused.
You could look at it as every time the car has changed owners, it probably would have been prep'd and brought back to its best. Arguably better than it sitting in someone garage for years, unused.
Pork said:
Its not unusual for high end cars to have a very quick turnover of owners....Ferrari's etc, and cars like M3's - I think poeple like to say "I've owned one of them..."
You could look at it as every time the car has changed owners, it probably would have been prep'd and brought back to its best. Arguably better than it sitting in someone garage for years, unused.
Interesting way of viewing it. You could look at it as every time the car has changed owners, it probably would have been prep'd and brought back to its best. Arguably better than it sitting in someone garage for years, unused.
Personally it makes very little difference to me, as long as the car has been looked after properly, I'm happy.
The DVLA are muppets.
I've had cars with address / plate changes and they've added on owners.
I've sent the V5 back demanding they change it and they will although they "couldn't see why it mattered"
I've had the same in the old days when removing Personal Plate and they put it backwards a letter (IE is was a Freg and it came back as a E) These days it returns to the exact plate it was pre transfer.
I've had cars with address / plate changes and they've added on owners.
I've sent the V5 back demanding they change it and they will although they "couldn't see why it mattered"
I've had the same in the old days when removing Personal Plate and they put it backwards a letter (IE is was a Freg and it came back as a E) These days it returns to the exact plate it was pre transfer.
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Interesting way of viewing it.
Personally it makes very little difference to me, as long as the car has been looked after properly, I'm happy.
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Buying privately, you are more likely to get the full/true history of the car from the one/original owner. A few stamps in a service book mean nothing to me.
Interesting way of viewing it.
Personally it makes very little difference to me, as long as the car has been looked after properly, I'm happy.
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Buying privately, you are more likely to get the full/true history of the car from the one/original owner. A few stamps in a service book mean nothing to me.
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