Mileage Discrepancy Question

[Mabbs9]

I've done an RAC HPI check for a car I'm interested in. One alert for mileage. It's being sold with 4000miles on it and is a 2021 car.

Any thoughts as to the NMR number being different? Alarm bell or typical to have a slight deviation at these low miles?

Thanks in advance.

[paul_c123]

31st March looks like a change of owner, or an owner/trader notifying its "into trade" with an optional mileage entered.

20th May - do you know what event occurred on this date??

NMR (National Mileage Register) is a database run by HPI which collates several sources of mileage information, namely:

- Change of registered keeper (when they optionally enter a mileage)
- MoT
- some digital service information which is part of the scheme
- occasionally, HPI proactively contacting previous owners
- other stuff too

[charltjr]

Might be a simple miles to km conversion thing, 6000km is about 3,700 miles and some cars it’s very easy to flip the setting.

[Mabbs9]

Thanks both. I'll ask the dealer when I'm in on weds. I'm not sure what to think really. It would seem a v low mileage to be clocking it.

I'd hoped someone had seen similar discrepancies before and could tell me not to worry about it.

[paul_c123]

If you like the car enough to buy it and its just an error of some kind, rather than an actual clocking or unexplained discrepancy, get the dealer to correct it (officially) then run your own HPI check to ensure its done. Otherwise it will be a hindrance in the future to selling it on - and probably too late to correct it then.

[Red9zero]

charltjr said:

Might be a simple miles to km conversion thing, 6000km is about 3,700 miles and some cars it s very easy to flip the setting.

Heard of that a few times lately. Just swapping the battery can cause it too.

[Mabbs9]

paul_c123 said:

If you like the car enough to buy it and its just an error of some kind, rather than an actual clocking or unexplained discrepancy, get the dealer to correct it (officially) then run your own HPI check to ensure its done. Otherwise it will be a hindrance in the future to selling it on - and probably too late to correct it then.

That seems really sensible. Thanks for the suggestion.

[Trevor555]

paul_c123 said:

Otherwise it will be a hindrance in the future to selling it on - and probably too late to correct it then.

This...

It will be a hindrance selling it to a dealer later on.

Get it sorted before you buy it, as it looks like a simple mistake.

If not, simply buy another car without a mileage discrepancy on Hpi.

[Mabbs9]

Trevor555 said:

This...

It will be a hindrance selling it to a dealer later on.

Get it sorted before you buy it, as it looks like a simple mistake.

If not, simply buy another car without a mileage discrepancy on Hpi.

Thanks Trevor. Not a boring car with many alternatives and it's pretty much exactly what I want. I'll pursue the correction route and report back.