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Clocked car.. HELP!

shaffrey · 2007-11-21 01:10:56

Hi there, I recently purchased a 03 Golf GTI from a garage for €14000. It had 57000 miles on the clock and i thought that i had gotten a bargain... Today i received my logbook in the post and I realised that the car had been imported from the UK so first of all I logged on to motorcheck.ie and everything checked out on the…

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21-11-2007 2:10am

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shaffrey

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Hi there,

I recently purchased a 03 Golf GTI from a garage for €14000. It had 57000 miles on the clock and i thought that i had gotten a bargain...

Today i received my logbook in the post and I realised that the car had been imported from the UK so first of all I logged on to motorcheck.ie and everything checked out on the car but I wanted to see if there was any history in the UK so went to RAC.co uk paid my fiver and i got a report saying that their was a discrepancy with the mileage!! It seems there was at least 67000 miles removed form the clock... before I get in contact with the garage tomorrow can anybody give me an idea what the procedure is normally in this situation.

thanks (sorry the post was so long!)

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#2 21-11-2007 2:12am
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name and shame

As for advice, there are a few similar threads in the last two or three months.
Do a search and all the advice you need will be there

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#3 21-11-2007 2:17am
shaffrey

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cheers mick it was tractamotors in blanch..will have a search now thanks

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#4 21-11-2007 2:20am
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Here are the main two I remember
A lot of reading involved

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055119939&highlight=clocked
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055117264&highlight=clocked

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#5 21-11-2007 2:47am
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shaffrey wrote: »

cheers mick it was tractamotors in blanch..will have a search now thanks

UK VW's seem to be popular for the clocking. Make sure to photocopy everything even before you see the garage.

Best of luck. :mad:

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#6 21-11-2007 5:21am
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as long as you bought it from a dealer you have a good case to either get some money back or get a decent car, I wouldnt accept the car myself with around 130k on it for a 2003.,

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#7 21-11-2007 10:59am
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Go for a refund and get shot of it. Why didn't you check it's history fully before buying it?

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#8 21-11-2007 11:04am
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shaffrey wrote: »

Hi there,

I recently purchased a 03 Golf GTI from a garage for €14000. It had 57000 miles on the clock and i thought that i had gotten a bargain...

Today i received my logbook in the post and I realised that the car had been imported from the UK so first of all I logged on to motorcheck.ie and everything checked out on the car but I wanted to see if there was any history in the UK so went to RAC.co uk paid my fiver and i got a report saying that their was a discrepancy with the mileage!! It seems there was at least 67000 miles removed form the clock... before I get in contact with the garage tomorrow can anybody give me an idea what the procedure is normally in this situation.

thanks (sorry the post was so long!)

I could be wrong on this cos I'm not sure why I have it in my head but some of the dealers on here might be able to say if I'm right or wrong. I think that the fact that a car was imported from abroad is one of the things that a seller has to disclose as part of a sale, along with involvement in crashes etc. So even with the clocking aside, you might have a case there.
(It might be one of those 'only if you ask' jobs though)

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#9 21-11-2007 11:09am
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(It might be one of those 'only if you ask' jobs though)

..........yeah got it in one !!

To the OP, bring the car back for a refund !

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#10 21-11-2007 1:12pm
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shaffrey wrote: »

Hi there,

I recently purchased a 03 Golf GTI from a garage for €14000. It had 57000 miles on the clock and i thought that i had gotten a bargain...

Today i received my logbook in the post and I realised that the car had been imported from the UK so first of all I logged on to motorcheck.ie and everything checked out on the car but I wanted to see if there was any history in the UK so went to RAC.co uk paid my fiver and i got a report saying that their was a discrepancy with the mileage!! It seems there was at least 67000 miles removed form the clock... before I get in contact with the garage tomorrow can anybody give me an idea what the procedure is normally in this situation.

thanks (sorry the post was so long!)

I used Motorcheck.ie myself before for two reports (mainly for finance and ownership status) but i got a mate of mine to do it on a car he was buyin from a private seller. He did the report and found out from it that it was a UK car and took the reg from the report. He used that reg on some history checker in the uk and the same thing happened, mileage differences were MASSIVE. :mad:

He nearly got stung, if he had have bought the car, there was no going back with a private seller!

For the sake of 35euro, doing a report on a car before you put the deposit down is the way forward, saves a serious amount of hassle afterwards. I recommend get in touch with the dealer though with your evidence of it being clocked, let us know how you get on!!! lol

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#11 21-11-2007 2:20pm
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How do you get round the rac.co.uk, it wants a uk postcode when i try to run a check

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#12 21-11-2007 2:21pm
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kaizersoze1980 wrote: »

How do you get round the rac.co.uk, it wants a uk postcode when i try to run a check

Call them, they'll do a check for £5 over the phone. 0044 1722 422422.

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#13 21-11-2007 3:06pm
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kaizersoze1980 wrote: »

How do you get round the rac.co.uk, it wants a uk postcode when i try to run a check

Give it one

Here's one for around Holyhead LL65 1YB

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#14 30-11-2007 1:13pm
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any update on how the op got on

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