online car check just showed me huge clocking.

time lord

Was due to visit a diesel micra seen on well known Irish site. Paid for on line check and the one lady owner seems to have come unstuck. It was only imported in August (2006 reg) and its being sold with an oddmeter reading of 58K miles and it left G.B. with 95,575 miles on it.
Contacted the web site so is that about the best I can do on the subject. Hate to see us broke ordinary people getting doneover by anyone.:mad:

scoobymunster

Afraid so. It's buyer beware so if you don't do your checks on a car before buying it's tough luck if you get stung. Reporting the ad will achieve nothing, it's only an issue if they sell a knowingly clocked car without telling the buyer(so once you've lost your money).

Victor

time lord wrote: »

an oddmeter reading of 58K miles and it left G.B. with 95,575 miles on it.

Miles or km? Those figures are rather similar. But that doesn't mean its not dodgy.

time lord

Victor wrote: »

Miles or km? Those figures are rather similar. But that doesn't mean its not dodgy.

How is 58,000 miles similar to 95,000 miles.

sentient_6

time lord wrote: »

How is 58,000 miles similar to 95,000 miles.

He never said it was. 58 k miles = ~93 k km's.

pitachu

Could be an honest mistake (or it may not be).

95000 km is about 59000 miles:

http://www.google.ie/search?q=95000km+in+miles

The person selling may have incorrectly entered the 95000 value as km (or assumed it to be km).

Or they could be trying to pull a fast one.

rsole1

It left England with 95000 miles and arrives here for sale with 58000 miles. What possible mistake could there be?

Victor

rsole1 wrote: »

It left England with 95000 miles and arrives here for sale with 58000 miles. What possible mistake could there be?

They will claim its 95,000km.

Anan1

rsole1 wrote: »

It left England with 95000 miles and arrives here for sale with 58000 miles. What possible mistake could there be?

If someone ran a check when the car left the UK and entered the current mileage in kms instead of miles, then the car would now show a previous mileage reading of 95k ish miles. The OP needs to verify the service history by phone with the garages who stamped the book.

William Powell

In the UK they wouldn't know what a Km was.

Edit>btw what does the odometer go up to on a micra? Our old ford says 58k miles but its done 158k just that the odometer only has 5 digits.

dharn

one is kilometers the other is miles thats where the confusion is lads: some read km as kilometers others read it as thousand miles

SimonF

OP said the car left GB in 2006 with 95,575 so if we saying the mix up is KM and miles then the car would have been sitting up for 5 years, don't think so for some reason.

William Powell

dharn wrote: »

one is kilometers the other is miles thats where the confusion is lads: some read km as kilometers others read it as thousand miles

Then I'd be a bit confused about how its done ZERO miles since 2006

But not for long

>Edit sorry SimonF beat me to that one.

jhegarty

SimonF wrote: »

OP said the car left GB in 2006 with 95,575 so if we saying the mix up is KM and miles then the car would have been sitting up for 5 years, don't think so for some reason.

It only left the UK in August , it's a 2006 reg car.

knotknowbody

registered in uk 2006, imported to Ireland in August 2011, is how I understood it.

SimonF

jhegarty wrote: »

It only left the UK in August , it's a 2006 reg car.

sorry misread on my part, could well be valid so. hard to prove otherwise without contacting previous owner.

William Powell

My bad didn't read the OP properly

Anan1

time lord wrote: »

Was due to visit a diesel micra seen on well known Irish site. Paid for on line check and the one lady owner seems to have come unstuck. It was only imported in August (2006 reg) and its being sold with an oddmeter reading of 58K miles and it left G.B. with 95,575 miles on it.
Contacted the web site so is that about the best I can do on the subject. Hate to see us broke ordinary people getting doneover by anyone.:mad:

Did the one lady owner claim to have owned it from new? Can they prove this? Does the car have a verifiable SH? Online checks are indicators, you need to look at them in the context of the overall picture.

corktina

no car imported from the UK will have KM on it and noone will go to the bother of changing the speedo to read km. Its been clocked and it is a very very common thing to happen.

time lord

Owner back on to me. Very bad English. As I outlined problems just blank silences and I will speak to garage. She has it a month. The mileage was recorded in G.B. sept. 2010 so all too fishy even if it was a km/miles mix up. It only matches a conversion with a years missing driving inbetween.
Maybe she was stung too seen as she is selling it after one month of ownership but I would of bought it with high mileage aslong as it was honest mileage.
Second hand car buying for me now will be fecking dear. Credit checks €35 a pop:o All my local garages have next to nothing undre the 5k mark.
Thanks for the replies bit of a blood sport this?

Anan1

time lord wrote: »

Owner back on to me. Very bad English. As I outlined problems just blank silences and I will speak to garage. She has it a month. The mileage was recorded in G.B. sept. 2010 so all too fishy even if it was a km/miles mix up. It only matches a conversion with a years missing driving inbetween.
Maybe she was stung too seen as she is selling it after one month of ownership but I would of bought it with high mileage aslong as it was honest mileage.
Second hand car buying for me now will be fecking dear. Credit checks €35 a pop:o All my local garages have next to nothing undre the 5k mark.
Thanks for the replies bit of a blood sport this?

There are ways to filter cars before investing in a check, to help keep your costs down. This car, for example, was advertised as having one lady owner. As soon as you found that this was untrue, that the current owner only had it a month, and that it had no SH, it was time to walk. I'd stick with (actual) private sellers too, it's a lot safer.

dharn

why would you consider buying a diesel micra anyway im sure petrol micras would be very economical and more reliable