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Old 4th February 2017, 09:14 AM
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Originally Posted by sarg View Post
HPI check is ok, the National Mileage Register is a load of bull****.

I currently have my X5 for sale, and lost a buyer this week because "my HPI check revealed the mileage has been tampered with"

Reason: in October last year, some idiot at the dealer where it was being serviced entered 27,000 instead of 37,000 miles, then IMMEDIATELY on the same day corrected it to 37,000, but the initial input stood and this put my buyer off.

Now, I have cleared this up with HPI/NMR, but it has still left a very unpleasant taste in my mouth as my 'buyer' is no longer interested as he feels there must be something dodgy going on.

I am not a happy bunny, partly because the buyer is just being an idiot (he also said there was an alert due to a number plate change - well done Sherlock, it has my plate on it!) but if HPI are going to record this information then they must do more to validate its authenticity rather than ruining people's chances of selling privately through nothing other than a data input error.
I had a similar thing with a previous car - when it had been through auction a few years prior it had what looked like a few HPI checks the same day, one with an extra one in the mileage - flagged on the NMR, just no common sense to their logic. Luckily for me, the buyer had some common sense (Lee "Mechcanico Lee").

How easy would it be to actually scupper someones sale, just run a HPI check and enter a million miles on someone else's car and then it will forever flag on the NMR
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