Quite. Buyer beware and do your research. I can but go off my own experience. I scoured the trader and did my research on this site and others. In the end I went an ex company car via a dealer. I hpi checked it via the txt message check, rang up the previous company who owned it - many miles away from dealer so I doubt they knew each other and contacted the BMW garage where all the very expensive on time services had been carried out. They again verified the legitimacy of the milage and vehicle Looking at the service manual, I was able speak with the mechanic who worked on the vehicle and he gave me a run down of the work done at each service. If you do your homework and follow the advice of many on this site, a high milage company car should pose no issues and you will pick up a bargain if you haggle!!! Incidently in the line of work I am in it is a discplinary offence to even drive a vehicle over it's service schedule!!!!

Hmm indeed!

Once picked up an 18 month old Nissan Primera "pool car" with so many faults that I refused to drive it. After much arguing I eventually got given a hire car.

To prove a point one of the managers then took said Nissan out, only to be stopped by the Police about 10 miles up the road. The metal-on-metal noise from the remains of the front disks was enough to break glass apparently!