Unless VW and the MOT station can confirm that this mileage was in KM, I would reject it.

As Happy Blue says, I can't think how this accidental conversion could have been made.

The price you paid is much more akin to a car with 126k miles on the clock.

Can they be switched at will between miles and Km display?

Why would you want to? There's a requirement for UK vehicles to be able to show speed in mph and an EU one that this must also be possible in kph. As a result, digital speedos switch, but only on UK spec cars as there's no requirement on the continent and manufacturers don't fit a function that costs 5p to implement if they don't have to. Likewise, continental analogue speedos only have kph, not mph, marked while UK spec cars have both.

Given that reluctance of manufacturers to provide such functions when it's not legally required (and no such requirement exists for the Odo), I doubt it's possible to do this accidently. Now, a pig's ear with a software update in servicing by a dealer.......(!)

Anyhow, around these parts this is not the first time we've seen an example of the milage on an MOT being fictional. I'd have thought that the usual typo by the tester is more likely than kms/miles confusion....

Cheers for replies and opinions.

I went back to dealer today who was really pleased with himself as he had a full history print out from VW.....problem being that stopped Apr 2011 when the leasing firm sold it on.

Apart from the MOT's he had nothing from the second owner.

Now the first MOT was done in October 2011 @70K (presume miles) second one done October 2012 @126K he says the owner was Polish and he buys tons of cars which the owner drives around with mileage set to KM's so he is confident that the mileage is right.

He says for me to take this info to Trading Standards as he is that confident.

After reading the car manual I have found the VW MFD (Multifunction Display) in later cars (I say this as my friends '57 Passat won't let you) can quite easily be changed to KM's for total miles travelled and when I did it today it said 129k (ish) yet on miles says 81k (ish).

So he could be right but unsure....

But as said above it seems odd that since Oct '12 it has done under 2k miles and since Oct '11 it has only done 10k.

The Polish owner had the car till 10/02/13 a few days before I bought it.

So if I am correct the car in Oct 2011 had 70,000 miles on it then in Oct 2012 the mileage was 78,750, meaning the second owner travelled just under 9,000 miles a year in it.

The mileage now in February 2013 shows 81,000 therefore it has covered 2,250 miles for the last 3 months which equates to an annual mileage of 9,000 which ties up with the 2nd owners annual mileage of 9,000.

So the mileage covered by 2nd owner appears consitent over his/her period of ownership.

Another thought have you tried to contact the 2nd owner to ask him about the mileage? Perhaps before the Mot in 2012 he travelled to and from Poland and put the mileage reading to KM and forgot to put it back to miles before submitting it for the MOT ?

I have a Passat CC on long/variable service intervals. From day one it estimated the service would be about 18,500 miles. Roughly. Still likely to be that mileage.

Read into that what you want but I don't think it would be 20k miles per year.

This is a common Eastern European ruse. I must have seen 5 cars like this.

Usually with the current owner for 1 year.

All being sold by Poles/Romanians who say they had it in Km.

I ran VAGCOM scans on them and with two, found historic fault codes with the higher mileage listed on dates within the last 2 year. Radio stations foreign and foreign destinations in navigation too. It could be the dealer that was the first victim.

I hate to say this to the OP, but I think you've been done!

It's a horrible feeling and I don't envy you one bit. I hope I'm wrong, or if not, you get some recompense from the dealer?

Is the glass half-full or half-empty? It may be impossible to tell with certainty, so just trust your own judgment of the car's condition. Or you could waste weeks or months getting more wound up about whether you have been diddled. But you either have to return the car very soon or keep it long enough for the discrepancy not to matter any more.

Trading Standards are investigating the mileage as we speak. Dealer refuses to believe there is a problem.

So far not to pleased:

1, Mileage biggest concern

I wanted a reasonable mileage car as I only do around 6k a year and the value could be £1500 less with inflated miles

2, 2x Tyres are dangerous with a bulge and flat spots

This could have been dangerous to me or other road users + I could have received points/fine.

3, Dealer sold me a Gold 12 months warranty which I believe is now void.

The warranty book states:

a, Under 100k miles to get the Gold cover

b, Timing belt only covered if done to manufacturers replacement regime (VW say 4 years or 100k) it hasn't been done

c, Servicing again to manufacturers regime. As above I have just had VW service it this week at just under 81k. Going from the last service at 59k it is 2k over recomendations (if what the dealer said is correct 20k)

Demand an immediate refund - quote misrepresentation act 1967

What has been misrepresented? Only the mileage on one of the MoT's - unless you can prove the car has done 56K in a year by this famous Pole? Suspicion is not misrepresentation.

Yes, if. Several posters have presented gloomy scenarios, but there seems to be little proof one way or the other, just inconsistency. Everyone is assuming the worst with little evidence. Of course when you come to sell (if you keep the car) this whole process will be played through again.

Dealer refuses to accept car back.

Trading Standards are investigating.

They have also said I might be able to claim CCA 75 as I paid the deposit on my credit card.