25,000 miles and 3 previous owners, suspicious?
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Would like to hear thoughts on this:
6 year old(07 plate), 25,0000 mile car being sold privately with 2 previous owners (therefore 3 previous owners in total).
This is a BMW 130i, so not a classic or 'weekend' car on which you'd expect such low mileage per owner.
It is reasonable that each owner had the car for 2 years, but it seems odd that 3 consecutive owners did (seemingly) less than 5k per year.
The alarm bells are ringing that this is a lemon, am I being unduly suspicious?
(I'd immediately disregard it, but not many come up for sale, and certainly not many in the spec and colour I'm looking for)
Cheers
6 year old(07 plate), 25,0000 mile car being sold privately with 2 previous owners (therefore 3 previous owners in total).
This is a BMW 130i, so not a classic or 'weekend' car on which you'd expect such low mileage per owner.
It is reasonable that each owner had the car for 2 years, but it seems odd that 3 consecutive owners did (seemingly) less than 5k per year.
The alarm bells are ringing that this is a lemon, am I being unduly suspicious?
(I'd immediately disregard it, but not many come up for sale, and certainly not many in the spec and colour I'm looking for)
Cheers
I would just HPI the car its only a tenner for a decent check and should give you an insight if the mileage is genuine or not plus if its been in a bang or been stolen.
It's worked for me in the past as I nearly bought a 10 year old Volvo which had done a genuine 50,000 and when I did an HPI on the car it came back that it had done 70,000 in the first 3 years.
It's worked for me in the past as I nearly bought a 10 year old Volvo which had done a genuine 50,000 and when I did an HPI on the car it came back that it had done 70,000 in the first 3 years.
Have a look and get it checked out. My car is 5 years old and has only done 27,000. The first owner put 10,000 on it in 3 years and I've only added another 17,000 in the two I've had it.
I only live 1.5 miles away from work, so it only gets used for work if the weather's bad, shopping trips, or for days out.
I only live 1.5 miles away from work, so it only gets used for work if the weather's bad, shopping trips, or for days out.
Edited by TheTurbonator on Sunday 8th September 13:41
To be fair, with it being a 130i as opposed to say, a 118d, iits not out of the ordinary.
Given the general (non PH) public seem to think any petrol car is crazy if you do more than 5k miles a year, maybe the previous owners bottled it when they suddenly realised they'd have to do more miles a year and quickly got rid for a duller 1er.
Given the general (non PH) public seem to think any petrol car is crazy if you do more than 5k miles a year, maybe the previous owners bottled it when they suddenly realised they'd have to do more miles a year and quickly got rid for a duller 1er.
No, on it's own not at all suspicious.
There could be any number of reasons why it has not been driven much, elderly owners/semi retired, owners with multiple cars, work from home, or more likely owners who spend part of their working time abroad/travel a lot with work and driving time is limited etc etc.
I have had a few cars which did not more than 2k-3k per year and it's not that unusual.
If the generall condition/driving and history reflect a low miles car and the miles on the old MOT's add up it's nothing to be so suspicious about.
There could be any number of reasons why it has not been driven much, elderly owners/semi retired, owners with multiple cars, work from home, or more likely owners who spend part of their working time abroad/travel a lot with work and driving time is limited etc etc.
I have had a few cars which did not more than 2k-3k per year and it's not that unusual.
If the generall condition/driving and history reflect a low miles car and the miles on the old MOT's add up it's nothing to be so suspicious about.
My wife's car does less than 2k a year. We have it on lease and will probably buy it at the end with 6k miles on. She drives to the bus station and back. My car is fully expensed (live in the US so I do not pay for anything including tolls) so we use mine for everything else.
Once we buy it the car will continue to do the same number of miles until it dies.
Once we buy it the car will continue to do the same number of miles until it dies.
I have just put a deposit on a 330i 10 plate on 27k 4 owners 1 from 13k miles in 2014-2017. So it had 3 owners from new till 2014 which I find strange. Seems to have been in a dealership for the past year hasn’t been registered to anyone and the dealer I am buying from only had it the past week. I’m trying to find its history proving difficult. Dealer has the stamps for the mots. Feels like a too good to be true maybe it’s just me lol had a bad experience in past buying used bmw.
Jay1990d said:
I have just put a deposit on a 330i 10 plate on 27k 4 owners 1 from 13k miles in 2014-2017. So it had 3 owners from new till 2014 which I find strange. Seems to have been in a dealership for the past year hasn’t been registered to anyone and the dealer I am buying from only had it the past week. I’m trying to find its history proving difficult. Dealer has the stamps for the mots. Feels like a too good to be true maybe it’s just me lol had a bad experience in past buying used bmw.
MOT history is online ,you only need the reg number.Full history should be available for a 10 plate.....from 2013 on
I’ve just done a check seems legit I did want to find out where it had been the last year spoke with a garage after getting the number from bmw that they previously had the vehicle. After speaking with them they said they have no record of the vehicle seems to have been off the grid the last 12 months only had a few hundred miles on since last not so guess it could have been on forecourt. Thanks for reply 👍
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