False mileage on imports

Is it me but do you get the feeling that imports have stupidly low mileage? whay are mileages usually around the 50-70k mark?

I found an advert in a Jap Magazine recently and checked mine for a tenner and it is spot on...........however a friends supra has had 40k taken off when it got to the UK!!! WTF:blink:

What's everybody's thoughts?

you can check your mileage here

http://www.japaneseimportmileagecheck.co.uk

Im intrested to know, just sent my tenner.

there is no option for a uk spec

oh bollocks, dammit I knew I missed something out!

good luck Jamiep hope your mileage is genuine

You've got me worried that the indicated 185,000 Kms on mine might not be genuine now!

Lol:D

oh oh got a feeling some people not going to be to happy with me for posting this now!

There certainly does seem to be an endless supply of cars that somebody in Japan paid good money for and then forgot to use.

What's that old saying about ignorance being bliss.........

The check is only the mileage at auction, surely it would have been clocked before going up for sale?

yeah your right, however some importers also mess with the mileage aswell, so if you never knew the true mileage to start with who knows what gets done after the car leaves the ship to the dealer/importer selling the car.

This is what has happened to my mates Supra it lost 40k between the ship and the dealer

The check is only the mileage at auction, surely it would have been clocked before going up for sale?

In that case if mine comes back as clocked then it would deffinatly be the uk importer by the looks of it.

There's always been low mileage cars coming over and low mileage cars being sold here. Usually about 30-60K miles old. This has always been the case in the last 5 years. So how comes the mileage is not going up in general over the years? In my opinion; of course lots of cars are being clocked over there and here in the UK!

All of the low mileage imports I saw (about 15) when I was looking for a Supra were clearly clocked as the interior and general condition indicated mileage was higher!

But isnt the rule in japan that once a car get to 100000km or 10years old which ever come first. it either has to be scraped or exported becasue of polution and safety! thats why there is so many imports with low mileage! we get them when there close or just over 60000miles. plus people in japan dont use car as much as as they have push bikes!

Totally agree, I almost bought a TT 6Spd 4 years ago lucky for me it had all of the Japanese paperwork from day one, and a good friend of mine who is a translator went through it all before i bought it, and guess what it had 49k taken of it!

Buyers Beware!

Is a BIMTA check a better way to reveal a cars mileage in Japan? Don't know if they have an MOT or something similar that could be traced.

But isnt the rule in japan that once a car get to 100000km or 10years old which ever come first. it either has to be scraped or exported becasue of polution and safety! thats why there is so many imports with low mileage! we get them when there close or just over 60000miles. plus people in japan dont use car as much as as they have push bikes!

I ve heard all this stuff before, and I'm sure it's a ploy for us to buy clocked cars with only 60k!

Jamie, can you let us know how you get on. Quite interested in this....

Jamie, can you let us know how you get on. Quite interested in this....

Will do.

This may be slightly controversial, but why pay £10 to find out potentially bad news, with no upside? I can understand if it's a car you are after, but one you've owned for a while...?

-Ian

depends, does this only work for cars which have been bought through auction?

as i know thats the case with the bimta.

remember, some cars are bought from dealers as stock, and dont go near a auction

Mine was imported from new so I know the 106,000 is genuine.

Mine reads 75k at the moment, so assuming it was converted as soon as it was imported, and I was told when I bought it that the mileage is actually 25k less than the odometer. But who knows.