This is a question we are going to answer in this blog post, and we thought it may be interesting to know how many miles a vehicle can do before it ends up in the scrap yard. Unsurprisingly the list only consists of diesel vehicles and for the most
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In October 2019 we had just over 50,000 searches through our website, our free check on the homepage includes a mileage check. In this blog post we have used the mileage data to give you an idea of how many vehicles have mileage issues. What’s a
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Please note: We have since updated this blog post with a new more in-depth blog post that can be found here. In August this year we performed the 1 million vehicle mileage check. At the time we never considered analysing MOT advisories, but after reading this
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Number plates, love them or hate them it’s a requirement! The first number plate to be introduced in the UK was “A1” which was issued in London. “A1” was issued all the way back in 1903 as part of the Motor Car Act of 1903. In
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The MOT test is a yearly road safety test and a legal requirement for any vehicle that wants to use public roads in the United Kingdom. So, knowing when your vehicles MOT is due is important. If you want to know when your next MOT is
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Since the internet was launched in August 1991 there has been several advances, one of them is the ability to sell and buy cars online. The first and most popular car selling site online to this day is AutoTrader, which was launched in 1996 and allows
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Please note: We have since performed a much larger test of 7 million vehicles, you can find this test on our blog post here. Vehicle clocking and mileage issues are a potential problem for used car buyers, the scale of the problem is what we want
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When your looking to buy a second-hand vehicle, it can be a minefield. BUT that’s not to say you shouldn’t do it, the UK used car market is a great place to pick up a bargain. You just need to make sure you do your
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Please note: we have since performed a bigger test of 7 million vehicles. We decided to test 50,000 vehicles to get a better knowledge of how many have dodgy mileage, when we say "dodgy mileage" what we mean is: A vehicle that has had its mileage lowered
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Every so often, we like to look back over our deluxe check figures and statistics. We do this for 2 reasons, the first one being it’s good to know what’s happening in the used car market and the second one being, we like to know that we are
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