The company estimates that up to 12% of non-maintained vehicles go to auction without a complete service record and this is resulting in a loss of thousands of pounds of profit for fleet companies.

Tom Marley, head of operations at G3 Remarketing, commented: ‘To put this in perspective, if a fleet or leasing company disposes of 5,000 vehicles per year, of which 5% have no full service record, they could face losing £97,500 annually. It goes without saying that dealers will pay a higher price for vehicles that have been properly maintained.

‘In the past, we have seen hundreds of vehicles presented with missing MOT and service data and some have no service record documentation at all. We see the greatest drop in value for Land Rover and BMW models that are presented without a full service record. 

‘Within the last month we have seen identical Land Rover Discovery 4 models – two years old, one with a full service history and one without. The vehicle with the full service history fetched £2,450 more at auction. We have also noticed on average a difference of £425 in 5 series BMW models that have a full service history.’