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MOT Certificate with wrong mileage

very confused person here!

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Hi there,

I'm at a dead end with information and can't find out anything useful from the people responsible so I'm going posting here for some advice if anyone can help.

I've just recently come to sell my car, now I'm not the biggest 'in the know' car person. I use them from getting to work etc. But upon gathering all the relevant information regarding my car I've come across a problem.

The mileage on the last MOT certificate is totally incorrect. Like most people I've spoken to over the last few days, I got the passed certificate and stuck it in my folder of car paperwork and carried on driving knowing that my car is all good for another year. That was back in March 2009.

The MOT certificate states that I have done 109,993 miles. Now for the age of my car that isn't an unreachable number. When I bought the car in 2007 it had done 46,521 miles, the first MOT I had done with it was in the follow March and the car had done 56,892.

As I used to drive around 14 miles per day during the week and in the middle of that I had been to London, Manchester and Nottingham for some gigs.

The 2009 MOT is where we have developed an issue. It was again done in March, I passed and filed the documents away. I have done now done 72,991 miles in the car and am looking to sell, but I have an MOT certificate that states I had done 109,993 miles.

As I said before, this is not an unrealistic figure but I still worked in the same place doing the same mileage each day with the odd long journey thrown in.

Now I am trying to sell I can honestly say the car has only done 73,000 miles but when you look at the MOT it looks like I've clocked the car back.

I have spoken with the DVLA and VOSA but the only advise I got was to take the car back to the same testing station and get them to retest for free and include a letter confirming that the information on the new certificate was correct. Which obviously the tester isn't willing to do.

So I now look like I've clocked my car, and nobody really wants to help me with a solution. I can either sell the car and try to convince the person buying it that the mileage is genuine or take a massive loss on the value of the car that has incorrect mileage information.

Any help would be wonderful?