Mr Cholmondeley-Warner wrote:Sorry, but clockers are criminals, and should be stamped out, just like people who manufacture and sell fake clothes, and other such pastimes.
Silk wrote:
Don't be ridiculous. Apart from the fact that "clocking" isn't a criminal offence, there are much more important things to worry about.
Simply taking into account how many times the gearbox output shaft has turned during the life of a car and ignoring pretty much anything else is, IMO, an outdated and inaccurate method of establishing a vehicle's mechanical condition. It's "how" it's been driven not "how far".
A car that's been driven in stop/start traffic and on frequent short journeys is likely to be knackered than one that's been driven further with more mechanical sympathy.
Mr Cholmondeley-Warner wrote:(unless the vehicle is under 3 years old, but high mileage newish cars tend to be company or hire, so records will be available from elsewhere).
exportmanuk wrote: Whilst I dont disagree with your analysis of the mechanical state of the car. If the "clockers " did not gain financially from altering the mileage then why would they do it.
If someone sold you a car as a 2 litre and you found out later it was only a 1.6 I think you would be upset. I don't see clocking as any different it is a deliberate misrepresentation of the vehicle for a quick financial gain.
trashbat wrote:Presumably you wouldn't want to buy a car that had done 120,000 miles instead of the 10,000 that was claimed? So it's just that it's fine if some other sap gets lumbered with it?
trashbat wrote:Weird thread, to be honest. Clocking already is an offence.
Silk wrote: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?
jont wrote:Silk wrote: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?
How do you feel about garages servicing your car? Do you care if they don't actually do an oil change, but just stamp the book? Afterall, everyone "knows" modern synthetic oil doesn't really need changing that often.
dvenman wrote:I found out recently my Golf had been clocked. Odd chassis numbers on MOT certificates which I should have picked up when I looked at the car, but more tellingly different mileages on the MOT done in March.
It means that for me, I can't trust what mileage the car has done since it allegedly had its ca belt done. So £450 to change the belts and water pump.
Clocking per se might not be a criminal offence, but the car would have been worth less when I bought it with its true mileage. So fraud it is, which is, the last time I looked, a criminal offence.
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