Selling a car thats been clocked

[barefoot]

I bought my Scirocco which was advertised with 90,000 miles.

The first thing I noticed was that the mileage read just 81K.

A bargain, I thought until I realised that the odometer didn't work.

Within a couple of weeks I'd fitted a new binnacle and the mileage then read 101K

It now reads 135K, I'd forgotten about it until this thread and hardly think it matters.

[Jerzy Woking]

How did it rack up 400k in 6 years?

It was doing around 1,800 miles a week between London and Aberdeen. Doubt it ever had a chance to cool down.

[smellmycheese]

Is it an estate? And where are you? May be interested.....

Not an estate but very nice in silver with black leather 09.

First owner was a priest the last was a doctor, only 67k believed to be genuine, unfortunately the sevice history has been 'mislaced during house move' etc etc. Cambelt recently changed! Located just south of Lancashire

[dugong]

If you declare the 'adjustment' up front, make it very clear what's happened and get the purchaser to sign something along the lines of 'in purchasing this car I understandd the mileage declared was not xx,xxx but xx,xxx' it gives you some kind of come back. It's not a cast iron legal defence, but it's something.

 

People are thick, though. I remember that war scooters had with that old bloke who bought his Legacy Estate and tried to diddle him for a four figure suspension repair when he spent an hour with him telling him in great deal what the car needed and why it was so cheap.

 

I'd ask actual rather than declared mileage money, mind.

[Stanky]

We bought a suzuki swift from a dealer several years back thinking it had done ~90k, turns out it had done 190k (5-digit odometer) but ran like a watch too so never bothered kicking off about it. Sold it a few years later for almost what we'd paid for it and didn't bother telling the people we sold it to, just tactically removed some invoices from the service history. 

 

Doubt they noticed/cared about it either. Was a sweet little thing that'd crack a ton deceptively quickly for a 1300cc SOHC.