Ha ha I was going to guess ND MX5. I thought mine was a garage queen with 7k miles in 6 years! But 2k in 6!!
Well, mine is no garage queen with 3k miles in half a year.
It certainly used to be under its previous ownership, though, as everything suggested (and still does) that the mileage was genuine.
7k in 6 years is healthier. I was after one with 8k in 6 years initially, but it had aged rather badly and the dealer was rude, arrogant and wouldn't move on price or negotiate on anything. His point was that it was the car's first day on the forecourt and was attracting a lot of attention as a convertible, in a red similar to the GRY's, in April (ie beginning of the season for convertibles in the UK). For less money, I got the same special edition, better kept, 2k instead of 8k miles and a car cover on top, literally. He got... on the phone a week later to follow up on the sale he failed to make; this time he was very polite and soft spoken.
2k mileage in 6 years was so low that made me wonder if it's too low. Mainly because certain parts age better when used regularly, rather than not at all.
You should have seen the face of the manager at the tyre shop when he realised I was changing tyres at 2k miles with the tread depth at 7-8mm. He probably thought he would sell them as like-new. He then noticed the sidewalls and said surprised: "They've split!".
Lesson learnt, for sellers and buyers alike: Be reasonable. Eg, if you have a buyer in front of you ready to commit, perhaps consider being a bit flexible, especially if the buyer is making sense. Eg I pointed out a safety issue, ie that the 7 year-old tyres needed replacement; he replied that on their official dealer's sheet they were marked as green, ie perfectly fine. This way they lost me as a buyer but also as a service garage customer, since I lost confidence in their safety assessment. Just sell that car on its first day on the forecourt and use the money to buy another and sell that one too. Quick turnaround is as important as a good margin. The seller of the car I ended up buying found out the hard way. They had initially priced it so high that nobody was touching it. Then it probably raised questions with "watchers", ie such low mileage, for sale for so long and not going... Winter came and went. The car stayed with them for almost a year. And they made a loss on it.
That is quite funny and beats my record of finding a spanner I had dropped down the side of a generator in the dark, a year before. But in a moving vehicle, that is ridiculous and quite incredible, especially where it is located!
