Steve

good on the surface but dodgy underneath

Having gone to view a car and test drive it last week at Stevenage Cars, everything looked good. The car had some cosmetic issues (which were already very clear from the auto Trader ad) They were pleasant enough as individuals and didn't mind a little bit of banter and negotiation. But upon inspection of the "FULL service history" something didn't look right. The "dealer" stamps looked very rudimentary and none of the telephone numbers on the stamps actually connected. The MOT history showed the vehicle tested repeatedly in the South West of England, yet the service history showed the vehicle as being serviced by "dealers" in the Midlands (and one nearly as far as Scotland). Having found the telephone number relating to the name of one of the "dealers" in the service book... they definitely were not a main dealer for the brand and had no recollection of the car passing through their system. It seems very odd that a 'single owner vehicle' would get its first service by a non main dealer garage and travel hundreds of miles to do so. I wouldn't stoop to saying something as bad as this - but some people might think that they had fabricated the logbook themselves.