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2,500,000
2,500,000 -- used cars with rolled back mileage for UK used car market (2025)
Roughly 2.5 million used cars have had their mileage rolled back (clocked).
- Equating to roughly 2.5 million cars with incorrect mileage
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2,500,000
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Data Vintage
2025
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B
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75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
HPI
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Tier B
https://caura.com/blog/why-is-mileage-check-important ↗
Source Article
The importance of a mileage check | Caura
MOT
The importance of a mileage check
Your car’s mileage, as the name suggests, is the number of miles your car has travelled since its registration.
In this blog, we’ll talk about all the reasons a mileage check is important, when to check a car’s mileage and why is mileage recorded during your ann…
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HPI
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Study by HPI cited by Caura; used car mileage fraud (clocking) prevalence
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UK used car market: 2,500,000 used cars with rolled back mileage. Source: HPI (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/hpi-clocked-cars-2-5-million
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