Clocked Car, happy with actual mileage, should I buy it?

i-CONICA

Hi,

I've been looking at a cheap car, very cheap. It's been clocked heavily, and the last service history says it had done 96,000 miles in 07.

But the car works and runs ok.

Legally speaking, is there anything I'd be doing wrong by buying it?

Thanks.

davidjwest

I think you'd be fine assuming it isn't stolen and you don't sell it on yourself. If you do sell it on then you'd need to let potential buyers know about it's chequered past!

I'd be concerned there may be other issues!

atrixblue.-MFR-.

like with anything clocked if it were done regular i.e 97k in 07 but true was 197k then that car may have 3-400 k on it.

i-CONICA

Hi, Folks.

I did a history check, everything is clean with the car except the mileage. Never reported stolen, etc. It is a cat c, but it's been repaired years ago and has run fine since. It's very cheap and I need it quick, so I just wanted to check it's not illegal for me to buy it, or anything, I don't want to have it confiscated for any reason...

Thanks.

Lum

There is no legal reason not to buy it. The seller has an obligation to inform the buyer that the mileage is incorrect and this may put off potential buyers.

If you're happy with the rest of the car and the reasons for the incorrect mileage then go for it, obviously buyer beware in terms of other faults it may have hidden away.

I once bought an old Volvo 940 with an incorrect mileage for £175 with 6 months tax and 12 months MOT (odometer had stopped working at 127k) and I got a good year of cheap motoring out of that thing, though for the last few months of it's life I was driving around with only 1st, 2nd and 4th gears as the other two had broken.

Hammyman

Its not illegal for you to buy it. Its not illegal for you to run around in it. It IS illegal for you to claim the mileage is accurate when you resell it.

FWIW, I was into Ford Capris for over a decade. All the gauges going wrong on the speedo binnacle was a common fault and in the decade I owned them, not one car was sold with the speedo that it arrived with. Most Capris on the road now will be on their second or third speedo. When you buy one of those you pay scant attention to the mileage and everything to the condition.

asbokid

Lum wrote: »

I once bought an old Volvo 940 with an incorrect mileage for £175 with 6 months tax and 12 months MOT (odometer had stopped working at 127k) and I got a good year of cheap motoring out of that thing, though for the last few months of it's life I was driving around with only 1st, 2nd and 4th gears as the other two had broken.

3rd and 5th gear, or 3rd and reverse?

bigjl

Clocked!

Damage repaired!

And last serviced in 2007!


How many red flags do you want it to wave at you.


Ever heard of the phrase throwing good money after bad?


I worked in the trade back in the ninties and used to have young un's coming in every week with fairly new cars with no end of problems that had been bought purely because they were fairly new and they thought it was good for the image to have a newish car, but couldn't afford a decent one.


This car may prove to buck this trend, but somehow I doubt it.

If it is mega cheap, and I mean a lot less than half the cost of a reasonable similar car then it may be worth a punt, but in all honesty I can only see this ending in tears.

Kilty_2

bigjl wrote: »

Clocked!

Damage repaired!

And last serviced in 2007!

:rotfl:

I call trollism by the OP.

Lum

asbokid wrote: »

3rd and 5th gear, or 3rd and reverse?

I still had reverse, forgot to mention that.

yes I lost 3rd and 5th.

funkycoldribena

Theres 31 million cars in the UK (admittedly not all are for sale) and you want that one??