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I want to buy an imported Toyota Celica GT4 but I'm worried about the low mileage. Can this be checked?

There a particular Toyota Celica GT4 that I have been wanting to buy for a while. The car is a completely standard 1995 Japanese import that came to UK in Jan 2009. Since then it hasn't been driven, although it has regularly been started up. It has no history from Japan and the car only has 4600 kilometres on the clock. The dealer has told me the car was stored in a garage in Japan and the driver only rarely used it on weekends. The dealer turned the car on with the help of a booter pack, as the battery was dead and it sounds very sweet indeed with no knocks or anything like that of a high mileage or abused car. I have noticed that both the front wings have been resprayed, but I am pretty sure by the welds under the bonnet that they are original. The rest of the car seems fairly good.

Could this mileage actually be wrong, even though the condition would say otherwise? Is there a way of tracing the history of it in Japan? If the mileage is genuine, could I have problems because it is old and done so few kilometres?

Asked on 23 August 2010 by nikx2002

Answered by Honest John
You cannot check back on a car like this, so you either buy it on condition and gut feeling or you don't. Because you are buying from a dealer you have come-back if it turns out to have been stolen in Japan. Do not pay a high price for a low mileage that cannot be verified.
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