Do you come across many issues with the National Mileage Register? I have just put a deposit down on a used Porsche Boxster with a local dealer. It is a July 2006 with 26,900 miles for sale at £19,995. It is currently owned by a finance house under a contract hire plan, for which the selling dealer was the original broker. Even though it is with a dealer I thought I would do an HPI check for peace of mind. But this has flagged up a 'discrepancy' with the mileage.
The NMR shows the following entries only: 23/03/09: 26,000; 15/05/09 35,000; 08/06/09: 36,000. On calling HPI, I was told that all of these entries were provided by 'members of the public' and they can provide no further information. The conclusion is either the database is wrong, or the car has been clocked. The only evidence the dealer can provide is the service book that shows just one service (20,000 / 2 year intervals) at a main Porsche dealer on 04/06/08 at 19,400 miles. As a check, I called Porsche, who verified this service and also saw the car on 22/08/08 at 20,700 miles. Averaging this usage out would be consistent with the 26,900 now shown. I'm concluding that the database is wrong. I find it hard to believe that someone would clock a car from 36,000 to 26,900. In addition the high mileage shown on the database between March 09 to May 09 looks wrong (unless the car suddenly did 9,000 miles in 7 weeks having done 26,000 in the previous 3 years). HPI acknowledged this and are looking into it, but I wondered if you have come across this before and whether you think I should be worried?
As the dealer provided the car from new and 'knows' the car, he will
warrant the mileage in writing.