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How can I tell if a car is clocked?

  • 19-02-2011 7:02pm
    #1
    Irish Fire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭


    I'm going looking at a few motors next week and one I'm looking at is an english import with 90k, a friend looked at it for me today and says it's as clean as a whistle but the service history is not there and I need a few pointers on what to look for.

    Thanks in advance........


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  • #2
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,761 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Do a hpi check with the original UK registration to see what turns up.


  • #3
    vectra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,626 ✭✭✭✭vectra


    what make/model car is it?

    VAG cars have some info stored on the computer so could accessed there if you know someone with VCD


  • #4
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,092 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Definitely do an online check - one is www.motorcheck.ie

    Old-style visual checks: look at pedals, driver seat, steering wheel, switchgear, gear lever to see if their condition tallies with the displayed mileage. Beware of new rubber on the pedals.

    Not your ornery onager



  • #5
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    No service history on a UK car? Walk away...briskly...


  • #6
    PauloMN
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional North East Moderators Posts: 10,878 Mod ✭✭✭✭PauloMN


    EPM wrote: »
    No service history on a UK car? Walk away...briskly...

    Totally, I stupidly nearly bought a UK import with 60k on the clock. HPI'd it and it had 96k at last UK service.

    My wife's car was a UK import also, but that one had full history, HPI and finance checks before I put a penny down on it.


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  • #7
    YouTookMyName
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,361 ✭✭✭YouTookMyName


    EPM wrote: »
    No service history on a UK car? Walk away...briskly...

    Tar every car with the same brush..... :rolleyes:


  • #8
    Tragedy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,056 ✭✭✭Tragedy


    It's extraordinarily rare to come across a genuine UK car with no service history. Almost unheard of over there.


  • #9
    x in the city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭x in the city


    the UK makes a mockery of the crap thats on sale here.


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,339 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    x in the city wrote: »
    the UK makes a mockery of the crap thats on sale here.

    Much of which has just rolled off the ferry.


  • #11
    Irish Fire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Irish Fire


    I'll get a hpi check done and see what happens.

    Thanks everyone


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