*HELP* Ex-hire car history seems odd?

StrawberryJam_2

Hi Arnold Clark are currently selling some ex-hire SEAT Exeo 2.0TDI ST Tech Sport (estate) 2011 plates for around £12.5-13k all with around 35k miles in the two years.

I happened to pop into Enterprise with the reg plate and asked about service history as there are no stamps in the logbook. The assistant pulled up the maintenance records to confirm service. I had a quick read and jotted down some figures

Reading the Enterprise history gave v.interesting reading -
28/03/11 Car was registered
29/03/12 Car was first recorded on Enterprise maintenance log
21/05/12 Serviced at 19792 miles (seem big miles to me eg 20k in 2 months)
26/10/12 Serviced at 33971 miles (14k in 5 months)
30/10/12 3 tyres replaced under 3mm
19/11/12 deleted from active file

Any thoughts out there?
Is it likely to have sat for 1 year doing nothing in a carpark somewhere?
It has covered 34k miles in effectively 5 months - should I be concerned?
What should I make a good point in checking for?

Cheers

gilbert_and_sullivan

28/03/11 Car was registered
29/03/12 Car was first recorded on Enterprise maintenance log
21/05/12 Serviced at 19792 miles (seem big miles to me eg 20k in 2 months)

20k in 14 months.

26/10/12 Serviced at 33971 miles (14k in 5 months)

About right.

It probably didn't need any maintainence work for its first 12 months so look ok to me.

20k miles before first service (oil change) is quite common now.

If its cheap enough then there is nothing in that history to alarm me.

StrawberryJam_2

thanks for your reply:
I am reading the record differently as:
20k in 2 months (29/03/12 to 21/05/12)
14k in 5 months (21/05/12 to 29/10/12)

34k in 7 months... with the first year having never been driven?!

Although I understand what you are saying in that it maybe was in use for the first year without any records needed on Enterprise database. That makes more sense...

forgotmyname

As above 14months...

28/03/11 - 21/05/12 Just short of 20,000 miles.

If 20,000 miles is the service limit then your OK.

Personally i look for cars serviced much sooner than the recommended maximum.

The 12,000 or 20,000 is not a target its the maximum. But all too often to cut costs they try to treat it as a target.

Johnmcl7

I doubt 20K is the limit, sounds like the car is on variable servicing and that's when it wanted a service. If it's doing high miles and those are mostly motorway the car is probably right. I don't do many miles in my car at the moment so prefer to keep it serviced regularly rather than wait for mileage to come up as the gaps would be too large.

John

neilmcl

StrawberryJam wrote: »

thanks for your reply:
I am reading the record differently as:
20k in 2 months (29/03/12 to 21/05/12)
14k in 5 months (21/05/12 to 29/10/12)

34k in 7 months... with the first year having never been driven?!

Although I understand what you are saying in that it maybe was in use for the first year without any records needed on Enterprise database. That makes more sense...

You're probably reading it wrong. I read it as the car was booked in for an annual inspection check via Enterprise themselves, no service required as the car is on a variable service interval, and therefore no mileage recorded. It's then booked in on 21/05/12 for it's first service, having done nearly 20K in 14 mths. Nothing unusual with that.