Clocked Cars

[mattyowen5]

How many miles have you seen knocked off a car with clocking? I was looking on eBay and saw this:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2014-FORD-FIESTA-ZETEC-S...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Fiesta-zetec-s-1-6-...

[mattyowen5]

'Fiesta zetec s tdci 1.6 .Excellent condition.Drives perfectly,no shakes or squeaks.Brakes are excellent,no pulling to one side.Serviced every 10000 miles.Timing belt changed.Had seat covers over front seats from new so no marks.Small dents passenger side below wing mirror from stones.Some scratches on driver side wing miror and indicator caseing cracked ,see photo.All electrics work fine.My current driving school car so milage will go up by about a 1000 by end of week.Dual control are still in the car but can be removed before pick up if you want.Ideal if you want to teach your children or a great car for a PDI.'

It was a school car doing 1,000 miles a week? And the timing belt has been changed

[mac96]

That's a bit ambitious. Surely the condition would give away that it was clocked if it had really done 155000 miles? Worn seats/carpets, steering wheel surface etc?

[f1nn]

That can't be the same car.

[Toaster Pilot]

Wonder if the service book has Ford Leicester stamps in it (readily available from a couple of eBay sellers)

[SpamDisco]

Anybody feel like asking a few questions as it has 6 days to run yet...

[NC92]

How do they get round doing this with the service book?

[cj2013]

f1nn said:

That can't be the same car.

Absolutely is, even down to the small scratch visible on the right side end of dash cover

[Toaster Pilot]

NC92 said:

How do they get round doing this with the service book?

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-garage-Car-service-stamp-history-book-/201686719882?nav=SEARCH

[Sir Bagalot]

Plenty of clocked cars out there. I was looking earlier this year and here is a perfect example

At the moment there are two BMW B5S's for sale

When you click on the link don't look at the price or mileage, just click on the picture of the drivers seat.

Car 1 - Look at Pic 9

Car 2 - Look at Pic 7

Car 1 has 122K miles under its belt.

Car 2. Seat looks more worn. Seat base sides are certainly in worse condition. Seat 1 has 122K. I'd guess Seat 2 has 150K? 160K?

Nope. Seat 2 has a mere 53K miles.....

Saying that the Fiesta owner is taking the fking piss.

[DegsyE39]

mac96 said:

That's a bit ambitious. Surely the condition would give away that it was clocked if it had really done 155000 miles? Worn seats/carpets, steering wheel surface etc?

Good amount of wear on the wheel if you look at the close ups, Clocked to fk

[ChocolateFrog]

I like the way he has stated the exact mileage of the services to add an air of authenticity to them.

It must be easy work though. Spend £500 on a new steering wheel, gear knob and wheel refurb and make £2k in a week no problem.

[sebhaque]

ChocolateFrog said:

It must be easy work though. Spend £500 on a new steering wheel, gear knob and wheel refurb and make £2k in a week no problem.

Given what some "dealers" do, I'd wager he/she spent less than that. £30 for a "valet" at the local supermarket and it's back up for sale looking shiny. Given the type of person who buys a Focus* I'd not be surprised if it's easy money.

• - by that, I mean that Focii are big targets for non-petrolheads, the type who wouldn't have a clue about cars being clocked or not.

ETA: I've reported the ad and suggest you guys do the same.

[jamoor]

Christ almighty that's a big jump.

We ought to continuously destroy his auction.

[SpamDisco]

He's wanting a bit more than a couple of grand profit.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2014-FORD-FIESTA-ZETEC-S...

[anonymous-user]

most cars age by years over mileage. very ambitious I bet will make a few thousand but clearly fraud.

[caelite]

mac96 said:

That's a bit ambitious. Surely the condition would give away that it was clocked if it had really done 155000 miles? Worn seats/carpets, steering wheel surface etc?

Yeah you'd think that. But think of the average punter who picks up a Fiesta diesel. Will probably buy it, run it for 3 years, tell all his mates that cars over 5 years old and 50k miles are trash. Then sell it none the wiser.

[MrJingles705]

So.... is anyone going to report the original adverts?

• looks around*

OK, so me then I guess?

[anonymous-user]

CU14WYF can't be clocked surely? Thats a huge amount of Mileage to knock off, Sellers feedback reveals he's recently purchased some Ford parts too, I wonder what they were?

[hora]

Can't we do more than just report it to eBay? I.e local trading standards? Would that help?