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A few weeks ago I sold a car, but the buyer discovered it had been clocked. I have proven it was done before my time with proof of purchase and resolved the issue with a partial refund. Can I report the...
Nine months ago I bought an Audi A4; I did a HPI check and the mileage looked ok. I now want to sell the car, but have discovered that the mileage on the MoT certificate has been altered with reduced mileage....
After having a 2008 58 registered BMW 120d stolen the police recovered the car undamaged within 48 hours (actually it was valeted for sale) but it was recovered without the original tax disc and with two...
I bought a VW Golf five months ago with 80,000 miles on the clock. I checked the MOT history out of curiosity (I only just found out you can do this) and found that it got up to 140,000 miles on last...
Last week I purchased a new Land Rover Freelander II. The odometer in the speedo read just six miles, but the trip read 7.8 miles. This should be impossible unless the odometer had been 'clocked' in some...
A local used car dealer has a 2009 59 Volvo for sale in lovely condition. He has told me that it was stolen from his pitch 8 months ago at 20,000m but turned up in Kent at the end of December (someone...
I recently traded in a car to EVANS HALSHAW, where I spent £12.5k on a new BMW. That was around 4 weeks ago, however I had a phonecall today from one of the managers saying I must either trade the cars...
I conducted a HPI check on my car prior to selling and found out that it had been clocked. I bought the car in March 2009 with just 16(!) miles on the clock, the documentation states this also, it was...
We bought a BMW X5 from a car dealer, things started going wrong with it very early on. We discovered after investigation it was clocked and was not the car we thought we were buying. We won the criminal...
I just took a Skoda Fabia to 'webuyanycar' in Newhaven and the dealer made a check on the NMR website which showed the following discrepancies in the mileage. DVLC Feb 2008 44000 NMR 31st July 2008...
 

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