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Old 08 April 2013, 04:32 PM
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Default I was going to look at a wagon this afternoon ...

... instead of which I'm sat here in front of m'puter

It would have been a 450 mile round trip and it was all systems go until I discovered its (lack of) history. The car was registered in July 07. There was no history at all after Jan 2010, during which 3+ years, the car did 46000 (unserviced?) miles - and that assumes it hadn't been clocked.

I then checked the MOT history on VOSA and found two gaps, one of 4 months and one of 6 months. So the car had either been driven illegally or had completed its 46K miles in 28 months at a rate of 20K miles pa. And if the mileage recorded at the last MOT was right, I have to believe it's only done 3K miles during the last ten months.

I decided to save my time and petrol
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Keep looking mate as there are plenty of decent cars out there what shape impreza are you after and what's your budget?
Old 08 April 2013, 05:15 PM
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Hawkeye wagon, preferably an SL WRX as late as possible, maybe 50-80K miles and no (or trivial) mods. My big problem is the colour; I don't like black, white or silver and I prefer the light blue or (mica?) red to the darker blue so my favoured colours seem to be the ones I see advertised least.
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Just To Say There Are Some "Straight" Cars Out There, And For The Record Mine Was Just Mot'ed And I've Only Done 282 Miles! In 12 Months, Been Away A Lot.
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yep echo the sentiments above, i've done about 2000 miles in my blob wagon in almost 2yrs. time fly's and so do i most of the time.

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