Letter from National Mileage Register

bignred05

I have recently sold my previous car as a part exchange.
now a little background I bought the car in 2016 with approx. 12,000 on the clock (it was registered as new in 2015)
in the last 4 years I've done about 4,500-5000 miles P.A.
I got my car serviced & M.O.T in July2020 and the mileage was recorded at 30,179  with the DVLA.
fast forward to late Aug2020 went I took it for a part exchange valuation, the mileage then was approx. 30,500 and a photo taken by the salesman.
fast forward to early Sept2020 when I collect my nearly new car & leave my part exchanged car with approx. 30,600 on the clock.
when I was signing my documents for my nearly new car, I noticed the mileage for my part exchanged vehicle had been recorded as 29,100.
I pointed this out and was told not to worry about this as it was just an admin error and he had the paperwork there with 30,500 etc.

yesterday I received a letter from the national mileage register, I have updated them with all the info above.
as a result of the letter I have checked the web site of the dealer who I sold my car to, they have my former car for sale with the mileage showing as 29,100.

any thoughts/advice on this please.
I have updated the national mileage website with my details and records of the correct mileage.
I have emailed the salesman concerned tonight advising him of the letter and my observations about the correct mileage.

chrisw

I wouldn't worry about it. They might have just taken the advert details from the part ex document and not actually checked the vehicle.

1000 miles on 30000 is neither here nor there, and certainly wouldn't be worth the garage  taking any sort of clocking risk over.

forgotmyname

Who is going to knock 1400 or 1500 miles off a 5 year old car?   Not worth the effort at all.

Advertised with 29100, go and view it and its probably 30600 exactly as you sold it. Mistake on the form that
carried over to the advert which may have been a previous car and some lazy sod couldnt be bothered to
edit that field as it was close enough.

Part exchanged a car in 2009 that was advertised on autotrader and ebay, they simply swapped the pictures
of the car i bought to the one i traded in. Even though one was a petrol hatchback and the other a diesel estate.
Even with obvious errors like that they sold it quickly.

Car_54

Not your problrm.

NottinghamKnight

Bit different to the other thread where the clock was seemingly wound back 100,000!

Grumpy_chap

I don't know what triggers the NMR to get involved.
I really can't imagine that anyone would "clock" a 5 yo car with low mileage to just take 1k miles off - it makes no sense.

What would make sense, if you are selling a car with 30,600 miles, is to list the car with 29,100 miles as a lot of online advert sites have a filter and a lot of buyers may select the filter "mileage up to 30k".  So, the advert will get seen by more people and very few of those people will refuse the purchase just because of another 600 miles or so over the magical 30k mileage.  The dealer can simply say it was an admin error on listing the vehicle, or the vehicle mileage increased since listing.