Are w221s know for being clocked?

[Sparkzz]

I'm on the hunt for a nice w221. Looking at early diesels.


I have come across a few cars of interest, but have also found some suspicious information on a few occasions, I use the government MOT history check online, and numerous times the mileages of the cars has seemingly fallen, only to be reported higher again on the car ad.

For example, car has recorded miles of 55,000 in 2014.
Car has recorded miles of 11,000 in 2015.
Car has reported miles of 77,000 on ad, MOT due soon.

Is this genuine mistake or fraud?

Edited by Sparkzz on Tuesday 19th January 23:28

[jke11y]

I've looked at loads online and yes, they are prone to having had haircuts - especially those within the M25 that have been PCO cars. Perhaps not any more prone than any other luxury car that will be on a low miles lease but used for high miles. The ex-taxis get MOTd before the 3 years and some of them would be advertised still with the badge in the window but a history of MOTs at 20k 40k 60k in the first 3 then 62, 65k. Blatant!

I looked at a 5 year old one at cargiant that read 35k and the condition of it was more 135k.

Edit; third one I checked just now - an example - obviously a chauffeur car (magazines and water bottles, ref plate is textbook for PCO cars) previous MOTs and 20k is gaps and then the last 2 years tiny mileage between them. I'm sure you can make a living chauffeur driving on 6k miles a year.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...

Edited by jke11y on Wednesday 20th January 09:12

[r129sl]

jke11y said:

I've looked at loads online and yes, they are prone to having had haircuts - especially those within the M25 that have been PCO cars. Perhaps not any more prone than any other luxury car that will be on a low miles lease but used for high miles. The ex-taxis get MOTd before the 3 years and some of them would be advertised still with the badge in the window but a history of MOTs at 20k 40k 60k in the first 3 then 62, 65k. Blatant!

I looked at a 5 year old one at cargiant that read 35k and the condition of it was more 135k.

Edit; third one I checked just now - an example - obviously a chauffeur car (magazines and water bottles, ref plate is textbook for PCO cars) previous MOTs and 20k is gaps and then the last 2 years tiny mileage between them. I'm sure you can make a living chauffeur driving on 6k miles a year.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...

Edited by jke11y on Wednesday 20th January 09:12

The greater offence, surely, is the S500 plate on a S320 CDI?

[Monospace]

There are A LOT of these in London, 320CDi. To the point that I would trust few of them NOT to be chauffeur/airport/whatever cars.