This vehicle has previously been registered to a business or

[Batdad]

"This vehicle has previously been registered to a business or a vehicle rental company, or been used by a business, so it may have been driven by more than one driver."

Would this put you off?

I'm looking at a couple of cars from the same dealer and this message appears on both.

https://www.arnoldclark.com/used-cars/ref/ARNAM-U-...

https://www.arnoldclark.com/used-cars/ref/ARNAO-U-...

[flight147z]

A very large number of new cars are registered as fleet vehicles/management company cars etc. as the first owner so I don't think this is particularly rare

[alscar]

If previously a business then no wouldn’t put me off if that’s what I was after - mileage on both is only average at worst.
Generally if used for rental or a taxi then yes it would.

[Batdad]

Ah that's helpful. Thanks

[edthefed]

Batdad said:

Ah that's helpful. Thanks

Arnold Clark have a massive car rental business - where do you think they get a lot of the used car stock from ?

[ADJimbo]

edthefed said:

Arnold Clark have a massive car rental business - where do you think they get a lot of the used car stock from ?

^ This ^.

I do some work for a company who have a myriad of regional retail dealerships across a number of brands. One of their businesses is a retail rental business. It’s well known across the group, that new vehicles come out of the back door of the retail dealerships, are into the front door of the rental, hired out through their retail rental business and then come back out of the rental business and back into the retail dealerships and are then sold through as ex-management cars. The V5 is always in the name of the parent company so no change of keepers.

In essence, they have more ex-management cars coming through than they have managers. The rental business is a break-even business that services the demand for the traditional, nine / twelve month old ex-demo market. It’s a bit more commercially complicated with registration bonuses and back-end monies and the like but it gives a flavour of how they service that market themselves. I doubt Arnold Clark will be any different.