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View Poll Results: Do you Check a car before buying it ? | |||
Never | 4 | 11.11% | |
I dont, but know I should | 2 | 5.56% | |
I only check cars I buy privately | 11 | 30.56% | |
I check every car I ever buy | 19 | 52.78% | |
Voters: 36. You may not vote on this poll |
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Never bothered when buying the A8 or the A4 before that. They were both 2001 so didn't see the point. Part of the check wouldn't work for us in Northern Ireland, as the full MOT history isn't available.
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I "always" check mine out of habit now..... I normally have a multi check (5 car check) through the AA for £20 so they're not very expensive.
I've put quotation marks on always as the exceptions over the past few years have been on cars provided by my mechanic which are usually very cheap and just to keep me on the road between cars.
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Buying private, I check
Buying independent dealer, if no HPI provided, I check Buying Franchised agent, I don't check Buying cheap stuff, I don't check Insufficient options in that survey When I was buying and selling a lot, I stuck with CAP Black Book. Classes and CAP did things differently to each other, and I found it easier to stick to one and understand how to read what it was saying against what I was looking at
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High value - yes.
Low value - no.
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Yes if buying Private or Independent Trader.
No from a Main Dealer but would ask them to provide a copy of report for peace of mind. |
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Aye but he was "proper dodgy" was he not
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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. |
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Sarg,
Gwen & I both feel for you. I might be an old gullible soft touch but I use a number of criteria whenever dealing with strangers, including my "gut feeling". Better luck with your next catch.
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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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Such is my boredom of entering and viewing vrms, vins and mileages unless there are any objections I'll pick a handful of you off this thread and email you some free vouchers to try out a beta version of the service I've put together.
I'm interested in any glaring technical, grammatical or spelling errors. It really is a V1.0 but hopefully might be useful, if not pretty. The checks are from live data, but the guarantees behind the data are not valid in this instance, so don't make any real life purchase decisions based on it ! [/disclaimer over] I would advise you check your own car first, to get a feel for what the data should look like, then try some others off your favourite car buying site..... Anyone that is particularly interested, response, and likewise I'll make sure you get some...
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