Ford Fiesta mk7 - Purchased a car at Arnold Clark

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Wed 10 Oct 2018 10:45
Ford Fiesta mk7 - Purchased a car at Arnold Clark - frankf
Hi everyone hope everybody is well,

So I bought a used car from Arnold Clark a wee Ford Fiesta zetec s 2010 after taking it home I ran a car check app, which I should of done beforehand, and it states on its first mot 200.000 odd miles had been added then the following mot they disappeared when I bought it it was 37000 miles, is that grounds for a refund? before I call them has any1 got any advice on this matter.
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Wed 10 Oct 2018 10:57
Ford Fiesta mk7 - Purchased a car at Arnold Clark - madf

The MOT history - on internet - will show mileage at MOTs.. What was the advertised mileage?

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Wed 10 Oct 2018 11:16
Ford Fiesta mk7 - Purchased a car at Arnold Clark - frankf
It was advertised as 37633 I done a online check and it said it said on the online checker that on the 2013 mot it when in with 23722 it frailer then when it got repaired to pass the mot they added 210.000 miles to its mileage and then on 2014 mot the 210.000 miles disappear and from every mot since there a warning about the mileage, it’s look kind of shady and i wouldn’t purchased the car if I was told or seen this
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Wed 10 Oct 2018 11:27
Ford Fiesta mk7 - Purchased a car at Arnold Clark - daveyjp

Run the reg through this:

www.gov.uk/check-mot-history

and tell us the mileages for each year.

I suspect 'fat finger MOT inspector' syndrome may be at play - if it was on 24,000, it is easy to enter 224,000 on a keyboard and not realise until it is too late .

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Wed 10 Oct 2018 11:30
Ford Fiesta mk7 - Purchased a car at Arnold Clark - FiestaOwner
It was advertised as 37633 I done a online check and it said it said on the online checker that on the 2013 mot it when in with 23722 it frailer then when it got repaired to pass the mot they added 210.000 miles to its mileage and then on 2014 mot the 210.000 miles disappear and from every mot since there a warning about the mileage, it’s look kind of shady and i wouldn’t purchased the car if I was told or seen this

So in the space of a few days (in 2013) the mileage jumped from 23,722 to 233,722? Sounds like the MOT tester has entered the wrong mileage when he retested the car in 2013.

If one of these cars had done over 230,000 miles, I'm pretty sure you'd know about it by its overall condition.

Edit: Beaten to it by daveyjp

Edited by FiestaOwner on 10/10/2018 at 11:31

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Wed 10 Oct 2018 12:04
Ford Fiesta mk7 - Purchased a car at Arnold Clark - frankf
I thought that might be the case aswell I don’t get y u would a year tho.
2013 - 23,722 miles then 233,722 miles
2014 - 27,853 miles then 205,896 miles deducted
2015 - 32,266 miles
2016- 34,653 miles
2017 - 36,230 miles
2018- 37,633 miles

I can’t put a screen shot up on the forum think it’s maybe cos I’m on my mobile
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Wed 10 Oct 2018 12:08
Ford Fiesta mk7 - Purchased a car at Arnold Clark - frankf
sorry the man in 2014 - 205,896 where deducted from total mileage
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Wed 10 Oct 2018 12:03
Ford Fiesta mk7 - Purchased a car at Arnold Clark - SLO76
It’s a common issue and 99.9% likely to be down to one fat fingered Mot tester inputting an extra digit.
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Wed 10 Oct 2018 12:28
Ford Fiesta mk7 - Purchased a car at Arnold Clark - frankf
Yeah a hope it was the thing i dont get is why when it was rectified they didn’t take 210,000 they deducted 205,896
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Wed 10 Oct 2018 12:39
Ford Fiesta mk7 - Purchased a car at Arnold Clark - SLO76
Yeah a hope it was the thing i dont get is why when it was rectified they didn’t take 210,000 they deducted 205,896

They’ve just correctly inputted the mileage the car had at the time of the next Mot. It’s the previous Mot that was obviously wrong. It’s too big a discrepancy to indicate foul play. I wouldn’t worry, it sounds like a very low mileage user has owned it. If it’s a petrol model from this era which uses a Yamaha designed motor it’ll be a very faithful little car to you.

Edited by SLO76 on 10/10/2018 at 12:42

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Wed 10 Oct 2018 12:39
Ford Fiesta mk7 - Purchased a car at Arnold Clark - FiestaOwner
Yeah a hope it was the thing i dont get is why when it was rectified they didn’t take 210,000 they deducted 205,896

They haven't deducted any mileage. The MOT tester just reads the mileometer each year. So in 2014 it read 27,853.

They haven't corrected the mileage, They've just read it each year. It's just that they recorded it wrong when they did the MOT retest in 2013.

Between the MOT's in 2013 and 2014 it's done 4,131 miles.

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Wed 10 Oct 2018 12:41
Ford Fiesta mk7 - Purchased a car at Arnold Clark - Avant

Deduction probably best described as fat-fingered logic. Don't worry about it.

That sort of mileage in a year would mean well over 500 miles every single day. It just didn't happen.

Edited by Avant on 10/10/2018 at 12:43

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Wed 10 Oct 2018 12:43
Ford Fiesta mk7 - Purchased a car at Arnold Clark - frankf
Ok thanks for everyone’s help
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Wed 10 Oct 2018 12:54
Ford Fiesta mk7 - Purchased a car at Arnold Clark - Manatee
Yeah a hope it was the thing i dont get is why when it was rectified they didn’t take 210,000 they deducted 205,896

Because the car had done 4,104 miles in the year since the previous MoT.

In practice there was no deducting at at - all they did was to record the mileage accurately on the next MoT.

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