1 in 4? nice odds makes me look alot more happily at all the MOT's and services tracing the mileage.

Just had a quick look at this again and ML Car sales appear to be one and the same as the ebay buyer/seller rusk-muncher, both are selling identical bmw m3 with alpina alloys.

I think he may also be connected to the mr2 forum as well. Same user name and negative posts.

Buyer beware as always.

Seems Jamest has bought this car with 82k on the clock.

And rather interestingly mentions he thinks its due a turbo? Another?

Hmmmmmm thats the rings still wiffing like i knew.

Ah well thats just one more clocked coupe on the forum. There's a few hundred more just like his.

Hey chaps,
Wish I'd read this thread before I bought the car!
I went up to Leicester last weekend to view the car, I'd had 2 coupe's before but wanted the LE one ideally. He picked me up from the station in it, took me back to the garage and from there I inspected it. No, there was no red key, a few dents and the odd niggly thing but overall it looked like a really good car which drove really well! There was no smoke from the turbo and everything seemed fine! What should I do next in light of this?
Cheers,
James.

P.s. I paid £3,800 for it!

Well, if it has been clocked and it was a trder, then trading standards the next stop... Did you get any sort of warranty for it?

Well I got a receipt from the guy, but shouldn't i just phone him and ask for my money back etc?

You can try of course - do you really think he'll play ball though

probably not...on the phone to trading standards now!

They said I'd need proof of the mileage and proof of it being clocked etc....this sounds hard but there must be a way!

Very quickly print out a copy of this advert: click

You could also email the link to the TS office. I'd act quickly as I think the advert might be close to the deletion date for ebay

cool thanks printed it off so at least i've got the first piece of evidence!

Deleted this post, misread the post it referred to

I don't think he meant that literally, I think he said it because it looked the same as his....

Gotcha Jim! Doh!

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Ok, spoke to DVLA, spoke to VOSA who found an MOT failure in 2005 with 93,000 miles on it! I've gotta write to him now asking for my money back and if he dooesn't respond within 7 days then trading standards take it on from there!

Excellent work James, well done..

Hope you get it all back!

I bet there are loads of clocked examples out there.

I've printed off the MOT history report from VOSA and it's so clear that this guy bought the car off ebay, clocked the miles and charged me 3,800 for it!
It had exactly 102,369 miles on it on the 19/12/2006, was sold to this guy (from ebay) and then the next MOT (which he carried out) has only 82,430. What a twat. He's going down. He's not answering my call's unsurprisingly so i'll just do it the right way and write to him.
cheers chaps for all your help!
James.

Did you not HPI it or NMR it??

What's NMR?

And no, stupidly I didn't HPI it, he said he had a report already, which looking thgough the book is from 2002!!!!
I feel a little bit stupid for not carrying one out!

National Mileage Register, this is checked on a £5 Rac HPI Check.

John

oh right, little price to pay for something quite important!
You just don't expect it from a trader!

james when you do write to him make sure you use recorded delivery.

yes thanks mate, I'll pop down to the post office with the letter and a copy of the documents just so he can see what i've found. I've already found my next coupe and after this one I'll be extra wary of anything a bit dodgy!

Most traders are dodgier than private sellers! That's why they are car traders Always seen as a slightly shady profession (no offence to any traders on here )

Yeah I know,
Some more things have come to light....following on from the ebay sell on here, i looked through some of the things he'd bought...a second hand turbo being one of them. So he blatantly fixed the turbo then clocked the speedo. Is it easy to clock a speedo?

You can just buy replacement dials from a crashed coupe with a lower mileage