Some very interesting comments in this thread.

Back in the day, my cars never had a service history in the form of a fully stamped book, as I used to do it myself and always kept full receipts for parts/materials used in case anyone asked. Can't recall anyone ever doing so!

So I'm with Tom on that aspect.

However, it's one thing not to have an "official" service history and quite another to deliberately fake one, as in this case. 

If all the stamps are from the same dealership in Scotland that suggests someone has either stolen or copied their stamp so a premeditated and organised operation rather than passing the book round the office as in Tom's anecdote.

Can't help wondering if there's even more to this story than we know already!

 

11 minutes ago, Eric Bloodaxe said:

If all the stamps are from the same dealership in Scotland that suggests someone has either stolen or copied their stamp so a premeditated and organised operation

You can buy dealer stamps easily online...  Won't direct link it for obvious reasons but it took me 2 seconds to find this on ebay...

 

We'd really need to know who the previous owner was to ascertain whether this is just one person's attempt to get more out of a Cinch trade in or whether it's a large scale operation.  With logbooks no longer showing the previous owner, and Cinch being unable to pass on their purchase details due to GDPR, I'm not sure there's any way for us to do that?  Though I'm sure Cinch will try to recoup the refund costs through that route themselves.

Re Eric’s comments about cyber hacking. I was wondering the other day if someone will ever hack the dvla computer system and add people to the driving licence database or remove points on licenses and bans.  And also add mot passes to the mot database. 

58 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

You can buy dealer stamps easily online...  Won't direct link it for obvious reasons but it took me 2 seconds to find this on ebay...

Crikey - took me at least 5 seconds when I looked - you must be a quick searcher!

Loads of them, and service books also. Seem to be selling very well too. Odd that all the ones I found said "Seller away" or something to that effect! It almost makes you think there's something dishonest going on!😀

 

37 minutes ago, isetta said:

I was wondering the other day if someone will ever hack the dvla computer system and add people to the driving licence database or remove points on licenses and bans.

Of course! How else do you think a maniac like me still has a clean licence!😀

Seriously though, I believe even the Pentagon has been hacked so I would think it's highly likely.

3 hours ago, TomsFocus said:

You can buy dealer stamps easily online... 

In my very 1st job back in the late 70s, the stationary shop I worked regularly took orders for 'rubber stamps', you could get whatever you wanted!

funny before the days of making everyone safe with the "Data Protection" laws, it was common to get a service book passed down from one owner to another with all the old invoices.

Now of course data protection means the garages have to destroy all old invoices or at least remove any traces of the previous owners. So for convenience most just opt to put everything through the shredder.

1 hour ago, unofix said:

Now of course data protection means the garages have to destroy all old invoices or at least remove any traces of the previous owners. So for convenience most just opt to put everything through the shredder.

Mk Mk2 has all service history receipts.  Previous owners addresses redacted with a Sharpie...  Which probably worked on the originals, but these are photocopies where the address has been highlighted by that process.