MGF wrote:Why would you trust a seller because they post on the same online forum as you do?
It works here:
www.MagicBeans4U.org/forum
MGF wrote:Why would you trust a seller because they post on the same online forum as you do?
chriskay wrote:Horse: that link doesn't work for me.
Silk wrote:There was an article in the IAM rag a few issues ago about this - the writer was getting very hot under the collar about it - making out that "clockers" are evil people, right up there with murderers and rapists. Quite unnecessary, IMO. In fact, I would go so far as to say that "clockers" are probably providing a public service and should be praised.
I remember years ago, you were looking at an engine rebuild when a car went "round the clock". These days, you wouldn't notice. Other problems are much more likely to see a car in the scrapyard long before the engine gives up.
I've just got rid of my last car - just over two years old and 120,000 miles on the clock. To look at it, you wouldn't know it had done more than 10,000. If someone "clocks" it and sells it on, does it really matter, if the owner is unlikely to notice?
In fact, I think I'd rather have a "clocked" car that was well looked after than one that had spent all it's life in stop start traffic in London with only 20,000 genuine miles on the clock.
I'm sure it's not beyond the wit of man to come up with a new way of measuring a car's state of wear other than just a number.
revian wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/news/clocking-makes-a-comeback.html
It'll go to more pages now...maybe...
trashbat wrote:It's just another curious attempt to wind up a small pool of familiar posters, is it not?
TripleS wrote:trashbat wrote:It's just another curious attempt to wind up a small pool of familiar posters, is it not?
Well if that's what it is, it's not working with this poster.
Silk wrote:A bite's a bite, even if you don't land it.
Silk wrote:Clocking isn't the worst thing that can be done to a second-hand car.
revian wrote:Silk wrote:A bite's a bite, even if you don't land it.
Sometimes a bite is a tease and the fish just humouring.
dms66 wrote:Mileage is an important part of a car's history and any prudent buyer wants an accurate representation of this important figure (alongside other indicators like HPI check, MoT reports and service invoices etc). Provision of false information is fraud.
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