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Car mileage history question

  • 21-01-2012 6:37pm
    #1
    Backtowhite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭


    Looking at purchasing a car and I did a motorcheck history on it. Mileage results came back the following.



    Odometer Contradiction: Yes
    Reading you entered:76,000 Mls
    Previous Readings (Irl & UK):
    06/01/2012 75,000 Mls (120,701 Kms)Source: INMR
    02/01/2012 75,000 Mls (120,701 Kms)Source: INMR
    04/11/2011 75,000 Mls (120,701 Kms)Source: INMR
    31/03/2011 77,974 Mls (125,487 Kms)Source: INMR
    25/03/2011 70,000 Mls (112,654 Kms)Source: INMR


    My question is in the space of 6 days in march mileage went up by 7974....how is this possible??


Comments

  • #2
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    My guess is that someone entered 77974 by mistake, when the actual mileage was 70974.


  • #3
    mathepac
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭mathepac


    It's been clocked - from Nov 2011 to Jan 2012 there are 3 entries all identical and all lower than Mar 2011

    or in the 10 months from March 2011 to Jan 2012 it only went up by 5,000 miles.


  • #4
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,705 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    Anan1 wrote: »
    My guess is that someone entered 77974 by mistake, when the actual mileage was 70974.

    You could acually devalue someone's car by entering the wrong value on a motor check type website


  • #5
    Backtowhite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭Backtowhite


    It has been in the garage since the start of November. How are the miles recorded?

    Cartell said there was no mileage descrepencies


  • #6
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    Tigger wrote: »
    You could acually devalue someone's car by entering the wrong value on a motor check type website
    Backtowhite wrote: »
    It has been in the garage since the start of November. How are the miles recorded?

    Cartell said there was no mileage descrepencies
    That's right. If a car has 40k miles and you run a check and mistakenly enter the mileage as 44k miles then that figure of 44k now becomes the recorded mileage. If someone else runs a check and enters the correct mileage then it'll come up as a discrepancy. This is why it's important to use common sense when interpreting results.


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  • #7
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,730 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    Motorcheck who posts here might be able to tell where that entry of 77k miles came from.
    I be more interested in finding any history of mileage prior to 2011 specially if the car came from the uk.


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