Dealer misrepresented mileage

Ibrahim5

Having just bought a second hand car I would say dishonest car adverts at dealers are very much the norm. The commonest one at the moment was FSH. 2020 and 2021 would be missing. How can it be FSH but 2 services are missing? Well it was the pandemic wasn't it?

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Ibrahim5 said:

Having just bought a second hand car I would say dishonest car adverts at dealers are very much the norm. The commonest one at the moment was FSH. 2020 and 2021 would be missing. How can it be FSH but 2 services are missing? Well it was the pandemic wasn't it?

FSH= full service history.  This actually means there is a full record of all services carried out, not that every required service has been done to time/distance (which is what people think it means).

sheslookinhot

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Ibrahim5 said:

Having just bought a second hand car I would say dishonest car adverts at dealers are very much the norm. The commonest one at the moment was FSH. 2020 and 2021 would be missing. How can it be FSH but 2 services are missing? Well it was the pandemic wasn't it?

FSH= full service history.  This actually means there is a full record of all services carried out, not that every required service has been done to time/distance (which is what people think it means).

Where is that actual definition formally explained. 

So, on a 6 year old car with 60,000 recorded miles, if only one service had been carried out and there was a record of such service you are saying it would be a full service history, FSH ?

Rubbish!!

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sheslookinhot said:

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Ibrahim5 said:

Having just bought a second hand car I would say dishonest car adverts at dealers are very much the norm. The commonest one at the moment was FSH. 2020 and 2021 would be missing. How can it be FSH but 2 services are missing? Well it was the pandemic wasn't it?

FSH= full service history.  This actually means there is a full record of all services carried out, not that every required service has been done to time/distance (which is what people think it means).

Where is that actual definition formally explained. 

So, on a 6 year old car with 60,000 recorded miles, if only one service had been carried out and there was a record of such service you are saying it would be a full service history, FSH ?

Rubbish!!

In The Olden Days there used to be FSH and PSH. (Full & Partial) Your 60,000 miler would have been advertised as PSH.

I doubt if even Arthur Daley would claim it was FSH today though

Nowadays you don't see PSH any more, and FSH simply means they have all the service records.

The AA still think FSH means every service done on time by a manufacturer approved service centre

https://www.theaa.com/cars/news/aa-cars-news/what-is-a-full-service-history-and-why-do-you-need-one-aa-cars-13912.html

Autoexpress use the "new" definition that FSH is a complete record of what maintenance has been done

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/tips-advice/58853/how-check-your-cars-service-history

DanDare999

Ibrahim5 said:

Having just bought a second hand car I would say dishonest car adverts at dealers are very much the norm. The commonest one at the moment was FSH. 2020 and 2021 would be missing. How can it be FSH but 2 services are missing? Well it was the pandemic wasn't it?

Why? They aren't on any of my vehicles. 

ontheroad1970

Manufacturers have allowed services to be missed during the pandemic in that they will honour the warranty - certainly true to what I've heard at PSA.  

Besides which, with dynamic servicing, Ford told my wife that her Edge didn't need servicing until her car told her that it did.  Personally I kept ahead of service schedules with the Mazda.