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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...
I bought a car from a trader with no warranty - sold as seen. After six months I sold the car on with a 'sold as seen' invoice stating the following on the invoice. The odometer said 84,000 miles when...
Does anyone know if the odometer is on the ECU or on the dash of a 2000 Volkswagen Golf 1.4? The mileage on mine is very high and the guy told me I can get it changed to what I want. If I change the gauge...
A week ago I bought (privately) a 55 plate Mondeo with cash. I signed the log book and so on, all the time being led to believe that the mileage was 85,000. I brought the car home whilst waiting for the...
I'm a used car trader. I recently took a Mazda 6 diesel in part-exchange with my 2005 Renault Megane. The Mazda is showing 86,000 miles, which I wrote down on the receipt and the customer signed it. I...
We bought a car with our wedding money about seven weeks ago from a dealer. We found the dealer to be very nice and we test drove the car, and although the previous MOT wasn't available we saw the service...
We recently bought a car from a dealer only to find it had been clocked. The dealer issued a refund although we are still waiting to receive the tax money back. We also sold him our dead car for £350 and...
 

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