Clocked car?

ineedeuro · 20-06-2021 9:00am #1

Ok my mate is investing in a new car, is buying from a dealer and thought everything was sorted but ran the history checker thing last minute. He asked me but I have no idea on these things. To me it looks dodgy but the website says to check if the car has a service history which he was told it does

In 05/2017 the last owner bought it and then traded in earlier in year.

It seems a bit all over the place and I have no idea what INMR stands for.

19/11/2020 261,907 miles 421,498 km INMR
04/03/2019 59,668 miles 96,026 km INMR
18/02/2019 43,776 miles 70,450 km INMR
15/02/2019 50,214 miles 80,811 km INMR
03/10/2018 71,013 miles 114,285 km INMR
24/08/2018 73,047 miles 117,557 km INMR
17/08/2018 73,047 miles 117,557 km INMR
01/06/2018 56,575 miles 91,048 km INMR
03/10/2017 30,455 miles 49,012 km INMR

I don't want to give incorrect advice.

HBC08 · 20-06-2021 9:20am

ineedeuro wrote: »

Ok my mate is investing in a new car, is buying from a dealer and thought everything was sorted but ran the history checker thing last minute. He asked me but I have no idea on these things. To me it looks dodgy but the website says to check if the car has a service history which he was told it does

In 05/2017 the last owner bought it and then traded in earlier in year.

It seems a bit all over the place and I have no idea what INMR stands for.

19/11/2020 261,907 miles 421,498 km INMR
04/03/2019 59,668 miles 96,026 km INMR
18/02/2019 43,776 miles 70,450 km INMR
15/02/2019 50,214 miles 80,811 km INMR
03/10/2018 71,013 miles 114,285 km INMR
24/08/2018 73,047 miles 117,557 km INMR
17/08/2018 73,047 miles 117,557 km INMR
01/06/2018 56,575 miles 91,048 km INMR
03/10/2017 30,455 miles 49,012 km INMR

I don't want to give incorrect advice.

I don't know what IMRN means either but just looking at the mileage there are obvious discrepancies.

HBC08 · 20-06-2021 9:22am

What year,make and model?
I'd be wary of buying any car with nearly half a million km on it.

LillySV · 20-06-2021 9:24am

What’s “the history checker thing “ you are referring to ?

20-06-2021 9:25am

HBC08 wrote: »

I don't know what IMRN means either but just looking at the mileage there are obvious discrepancies.

Irish National Mileage Register oddly enough. Yes but no one is going to clock a car by 2000 or even 20000 miles.

colm_mcm · 20-06-2021 9:43am

The INMR is flawed and takes its readings from a variety of sources, some of whom don’t bother to record mileage correctly.

I would suggest that, even if the discrepancies are incorrect, it will always flag down the road.

20-06-2021 9:51am

Do they have any service history documents and previous NCT odometer readings would most likely be more accurate.

Oafley Jones · 20-06-2021 9:59am

colm_mcm wrote: »

The INMR is flawed and takes its readings from a variety of sources, some of whom don’t bother to record mileage correctly.

I would suggest that, even if the discrepancies are incorrect, it will always flag down the road.

Our Kia dealer noticed the reading was off on our last service. Car was bought new from them and only serviced with them. They finally figured out that in the previous service THEY had taken the KM reading as of it were Miles, converted it and entered the higher figure on the system. Coupled with the fact that it barely moved for 9 months, it could have looked suspicious. They’d no idea how they did it.

20-06-2021 10:03am

colm_mcm wrote: »

The INMR is flawed and takes its readings from a variety of sources, some of whom don’t bother to record mileage correctly.

I would suggest that, even if the discrepancies are incorrect, it will always flag down the road.

They can "fix" the discrepancies

ForestFire · 20-06-2021 10:03am

If you take the 114km(10/18) and add the next 3 readings it gets you very close to the final reading (11/20).

Did they enter the difference only for 3 years.

Is the reading now as per the last reading, i.e. greater than 400k (11/20)?

ineedeuro · 20-06-2021 10:39am

LillySV wrote: »

What’s “the history checker thing “ you are referring to ?

I think he said motor check.ie

ineedeuro · 20-06-2021 10:39am

ForestFire wrote: »

If you take the 114km(10/18) and add the next 3 readings it gets you very close to the final reading (11/20).

Did they enter the difference only for 3 years.

Is the reading now as per the last reading, i.e. greater than 400k (11/20)?

The current reading is just over 100k km

LillySV · 20-06-2021 10:46am

ineedeuro wrote: »

I think he said motor check.ie

The difference between oct 18 and feb 19 could be that initially the mileage was been entered in km and then it changed over to miles from feb 19… can’t see explanation for after that ….but see you say that the mileage is currently 100k which is reasonable difference between feb 19 and now … I’d ignore that mileage checker thing and go with what’s stamped on the book… or maybe enquire with motor check to get their explanation

Atlantic Dawn · 20-06-2021 10:52am

Have a look at the NCT cert, the last 3 recordings at test will be shown, that might help. This should cover circa 6 years depending on age of car.

ineedeuro · 20-06-2021 1:10pm

OK so he has pics of some history but not all. These are receipts in glove box. Doesn't seem to match anything in the report

05/2021 100599
12/2020 92103
08/2020 87089
09/2019 67235

colm_mcm · 20-06-2021 1:52pm

Unless it’s a unique car, I’d just move onto another one.
You could try and piece it all together but why bother!

ineedeuro · 21-06-2021 3:54pm

Just to close this out, more for people like me who searched this forum and didn't really find anything

He contacted motorcheck.ie who said the reading they had seemed incorrect and ended up they deleted all of them off system. So he contacted the garage who sent pics of the service history which all looks correct with receipts etc

Will he buy now after all this, I hope so :-)

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