Missing service history help!
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Hi,
I've just gone to look at a car I may purchase. It is a 58-reg vehicle with 9.5k miles. The car itself is immaculate and exactly the spec I want, however there is no service history for the car.
The current owner purchased it from some other bloke who had the car from new. The original owner apparently lost the service book and all the manuals for the car.
I've rang up the original supplying dealer who confirmed they supplied and PDIed the car, but say they never had it back for servicing and the only information they have on it is its come back for some recall work and had a couple of bits looked at under warranty.
The large manufacturer with its head office in Milton Keynes has no history for the car either, however there records only span back 12-months.
The current keeper is telling me he has had it serviced, but he didn't confirm where and he hasn't got the invoice available for this.
My issue is how much do I knock off the asking price for the lack of history, or should I just avoid the car all together? I'm a bit concerned that I can't verify the low mileage without seeing the history, and the original dealer has no mileage recorded for when they did the recall/ warranty work. Obviously if I was to buy would need to factor in a service now before it hits 10k miles, and a replacement book. Would this affect its value later on down the line?
Thanks for reading.
I've just gone to look at a car I may purchase. It is a 58-reg vehicle with 9.5k miles. The car itself is immaculate and exactly the spec I want, however there is no service history for the car.
The current owner purchased it from some other bloke who had the car from new. The original owner apparently lost the service book and all the manuals for the car.
I've rang up the original supplying dealer who confirmed they supplied and PDIed the car, but say they never had it back for servicing and the only information they have on it is its come back for some recall work and had a couple of bits looked at under warranty.
The large manufacturer with its head office in Milton Keynes has no history for the car either, however there records only span back 12-months.
The current keeper is telling me he has had it serviced, but he didn't confirm where and he hasn't got the invoice available for this.
My issue is how much do I knock off the asking price for the lack of history, or should I just avoid the car all together? I'm a bit concerned that I can't verify the low mileage without seeing the history, and the original dealer has no mileage recorded for when they did the recall/ warranty work. Obviously if I was to buy would need to factor in a service now before it hits 10k miles, and a replacement book. Would this affect its value later on down the line?
Thanks for reading.
58 reg means the earliest it was registered was Sept 08 so you still have 7 months warrenty left.
Problem is no service history, and no trace, so warranty is null and void. Funny how neither of the first two owners can find any service invoices...... TBH with such a new car I would walk
Problem is no service history, and no trace, so warranty is null and void. Funny how neither of the first two owners can find any service invoices...... TBH with such a new car I would walk
Sir Bagalot said:
58 reg means the earliest it was registered was Sept 08 so you still have 7 months warrenty left.
Problem is no service history, and no trace, so warranty is null and void. Funny how neither of the first two owners can find any service invoices...... TBH with such a new car I would walk
Yeah I see what your saying, it is quite suspicious and I'm really unsure what to do. The dealer I spoke to said it has still got the warranty though, even with the lack of history.Problem is no service history, and no trace, so warranty is null and void. Funny how neither of the first two owners can find any service invoices...... TBH with such a new car I would walk
va1o said:
Yeah I see what your saying, it is quite suspicious and I'm really unsure what to do. The dealer I spoke to said it has still got the warranty though, even with the lack of history.
You try claiming on that warranty, they will ask for service history to ensure it's been properly maintained. They will never pay out.It sounds to me like you have enough niggling doubt. Walk away mate
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