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BMW 1 Series - 600 miles added to clock after sale agreed - andiec

Hi, When I collected a nearly new car (9 months old / 5000 miles on clock) from the local BMW dealership at the weekend, having agreed the sale and put down a deposit for a few weeks ago, I found that it had been driven an additional 600 miles since the test drive.

Can the dealer do this? Do I have any recourse? Should I complain - am going to look like a serial complainer because I've already taken them to task about being economical with the truth about the cost of a loan - when telling me about the loan, which I agreed to take out, they neglected to mention the hefty arrangement fees (over £300)

Grateful for any advice

Cheers

BMW 1 Series - 600 miles added to clock after sale agreed - ifithelps

This makes no sense from the dealer's point of view.

Putting that many miles on the car is almost bound to annoy the customer, and a BMW dealer cannot be short of cars to use.

It seems to me whoever did the miles cannot have realised the car was sold.

The fact the miles were done inadvertently doesn't alter the fact they were done.

Any legal argument would revolve around the difference in value between the car with or without the extra 600miles.

That's a difficult one, the extra miles will not have devalued the car by very much.

It will cost you money to attempt to prove the amount, and you may not succeed.

The dealer may argue there is little difference between the retail price of a car with 5,100miles or 5,700miles.

But good trading practice obliges the dealer to offer some form of compensation.

Practically, I think your best approach is to negotiate with them.

The miles cannot be undone, and you've already paid.

Getting any money back from the dealer is bound to be difficult.

I think you could reasonably ask for some free accessories, or a voucher for a service.

BMW 1 Series - 600 miles added to clock after sale agreed - Dwight Van Driver

Point of interest...

How do you prove the mileage on the odometer?

Could you have taken a incorrect reading?

dvd