Please can someone help me...

Tinkaf1

Thanks everyone. This is the more likely senario i admit. Especially given that the highest actual mileage one I have seen so far was 305k, so it would beat the record. I am trying to contact a ford dealer now to see if they can verify mileage from their service history records, as in the first 3 years you would think it would have gone to ford for its free services and apparently they keep a record, so might be good enough to share the info. However the RAC report only shows that the numberplate changed twice... not what it changed to, so I wonder if actual HPI will tell me the actual REG it changed to so that can be checked up on.

Herzlos

HPI should be tied to the car and not the reg. As you said, they've reported that it's changed twice (probably to a private plate and back).

Tinkaf1

yeah but I want that reg to contact Ford with... :-)

Herzlos

Ah. Do you have the dates it changed?

PCMcGarry

Tinkaf1 wrote: »

yeah but I want that reg to contact Ford with... :-)

Ford will find it on the vin number. It will give a more accurate history as that won't change like the reg has.

Tinkaf1

yes, I have emailed ford now to ask them very nicely if they have service history record for it in its first 3 years of life. Hopefully they will feel helpful and check their database for me.

Tinkaf1

oh !!!!!!. well if they ask for that I will contact the garage. :-)

Tinkaf1

Ok, the Ford guy was really helpful, even called me for a chat and said he had even run it through a hpi check too. He said he call almost guarentee that the DVLA made a typo when changing the plate back off the private plate and added a zero to the end. He told me that only the local dealer network would have the original service on a database, not on a national level but he said he had yet to ever come across a Galaxy that had ever done that amount of miles and it would almost certainly look it, instead of being in good condition. Given the fact it has stamps in the book at the right intervals and from SEAT/VW dealers to boot I am starting to feel a LOT better.

bowlhead99

If the car doesn't feel like it's pushing on for 400k miles (i.e. really tatty) and the driver's seat and steering wheel don't seem conveniently newer than the rest of the car in an attempt to disguise massive wear, then you are probably OK, especially if there is a service book or receipts with some sort of mileage records - it's bound to be a red herring.

Records of mileage taken from V5s or MOTs on a change of owner or reg plate can go skewy.

Ikamva

My dad was a taxi driver and he did 200k in 3 years in a newish Vauxhall Vectra.

Taxis are serviced regularly and I would buy a former taxi