fucking with a taxi drivers livelihood is not the done thing! my old boss used to drive taxis, his tales are full of things thatll make you wince a fair bit.

his name isn't Derek is it?

just goes to show that a stamped service book isn't worth the paper it's written on.

i tried pointing this out to a couple of members of this forum a matter of weeks ago who were saying how they wouldn't buy a car with out a service history. i explained that i had known people that have done exactly what has been highlighted in this thread and that service history is worthless. they just dismissed what i was saying and one of them locked the thread while making a long winded post about why this thing doesn't happen.

well thank you Dan you've proved my point and hopefully any one that was led into a false sense of security by what those member's wrote in that thread will also see this thread and see that what i said wasn't as far fetched as those member's were trying to make out. hopefully reading their fact like opinion hasn't cost any one any money

here's a link to a a report by EVO about how they gave a car full service history for a mere 20 quid, it also explains how this would effect the value of the car click me.

I'm guessing its me you are talking about as I locked it. That thread was about the price of a AFH mk2 polo and it started to get off topic talking about service history so I locked it.

- I never said I wouldn't buy a car without service history and to prove that fact just 4 weeks ago I did just that.

- I never said it didn't happen, Because It does, as you said.

- No one said putting fake stamps in a book is far fetched.

- You said

..paper work is meaningless,

I argued that its not when you have all the paperwork. (not just stamps in a book, receipts/invoices for work done things purchased outside general services).

- I never said that anything that I wrote was fact.. I was giving my opinion just as you were giving yours. People can make up their own mind

To me and, I guess/hope, loads of other people, 'Service History' is not just stamps in a book, which is what I said then. Its receipts/paperwork that backs all the services up and all the parts that are purchased for the car. Really the receipts show the service history of the car not the service book. A Service book with stamps is just that a book with stamps in. Add the receipts for the service, the parts, the mots and that's a service history. This is what I said in the last thread as well. I also said just because it has a service history doesn't mean it hasn't lived its life on the rev-limiter and is not a dog. Its is just another part of the chain of information when buying a car. A test drive and a visual inspection is also a must!

All that evo link covered is someone buying a service book and a stamp it never said that they were able to purchase the receipts/paperwork for all the services as well.

I think anyone reading that thread (and this one) with half a brain will realise that stamps in a book can be easily faked. Receipts/invoices less so. I'm not saying that its a 100% guarantee that its all above board but together with a test drive and a visual inspection it gives you as much of a guarantee as you can get when buying a car.

LINK to old thread

hopefully anyone reading your opinion like fact like hasn't cost any one buying a decent car :-D (JOKE!)

fucking with a taxi drivers livelihood is not the done thing! my old boss used to drive taxis, his tales are full of things thatll make you wince a fair bit.

his name isn't Derek is it?

Nah, although t be fair i only ever knew him by his middle name, something about his first being too hard for the most urdu of tongues to pronounce.