An article just came on Radio1s newsbeat but I cant find the article on their site yet

And yes they interviewed someone called Hayley who thought she bought a car that had done 56k miles when the documents later showed over 100k

Nowadays though you can get higher mileage well looked after cars so i'd thought clocking would have faded.

One other thing that springs to mind is reading about companies that ring to say for £100 (or more) we'll sell your car as we have the buyers waiting.

Clocking can also be used to "extend" a manufactures warranty.

As many are 3 yrs and 60k, clocking back several times can extend the miles restriction.

I have heard of this done.

Car with a 18k service interval is serviced outside the dealer network at 18k. Then at 36k its clocked back to 18 and then serviced at dealer who thinks its a first service, the book stamped accordingly. Same again until the car has really done 108k but dealer does a service at 54k and "still" under warranty.

Very wrong of course, and indeed risky. Not something I would personally do.

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Having said that I have heard that dealers themselves do it. Cars of a particular brand (not mentioned cos of libel laws, lol) can be reset back to zero miles three times providing its not covered more than 1000miles each time its reset.

They are used as demo's or salesmans cars then the miles are reset and sold on as demo with less than 1k on the clock when its more like 3k.

Steve

Having said that I have heard that dealers themselves do it. Cars of a particular brand (not mentioned cos of libel laws, lol) can be reset back to zero miles three times providing its not covered more than 1000miles each time its reset.

Most cars can

It's the way that the trade price cars. Year, registration letter and mileage are important. Alot of dealers will buy stock unseen and these are solid facts about the car, not subjective like general condition. I read some time ago that every 1000 miles over 'book' (book is a valuation guide that lists every car variation such as Glasses or CAP) will reduce the value by £20 to £30, so if the the car was given a 'hair cut' of 20000 miles, that can mean another £600 profit.

There was some adverse publicity for Mercedes Benz some years ago, when it was made public that they could wipe some miles off their new cars, though alot of manufacturers can do this.

It is not an offence to clock a car, the offence lies in trying to pass that mileage off as genuine when selling it.

Sometimes high mileage can be a good thing, and at least you know a high mileage car hasn't been clocked. For example, if a car is high mileage, many of the things that are likely to fail have probably already failed and been replaced for you. Also, condition really is much more important than mileage. Would rather have a car with 200,000 miles on the clock with full service history than a car with 60,000 miles that's barely been serviced.

iirc Ford mileage is also held on the GEM module as well as the Instrument cluster

An article just came on Radio1s newsbeat but I cant find the article on their site yet

And yes they interviewed someone called Hayley who thought she bought a car that had done 56k miles when the documents later showed over 100k

Nowadays though you can get higher mileage well looked after cars so i'd thought clocking would have faded.

One other thing that springs to mind is reading about companies that ring to say for £100 (or more) we'll sell your car as we have the buyers waiting.

She was going for the hyperbole a bit though, saying the car could kill her daughter. Of course if she had had the car HPI checked too

All they need to do is get you to show a recent MOT with mileage on it and they can't reduce it below that.

She was going for the hyperbole a bit though, saying the car could kill her daughter.

Which just goes to show that she really shouldn't be allowed out without a "minder".