Is clocking a thing of the past with the all connected cars?
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Is clocking now a thing of the past with all the modern online connected all of the time cars?
They must call home all the time. Looking at the portal for my car, it has the live up to date mileage. Surely this has all put a stop to clocking on the newer stuff.
Do you ever hear of a clocked Tesla?! Haven't they been connected from day one?
Just to be clear, clocking is fraud, I don't condone such a thing, and wonder how all the mileage correction cowboys keep getting away with it. As discussed on here in the past it is rife. Perhaps becoming less so for the modern connected ones....
They must call home all the time. Looking at the portal for my car, it has the live up to date mileage. Surely this has all put a stop to clocking on the newer stuff.
Do you ever hear of a clocked Tesla?! Haven't they been connected from day one?
Just to be clear, clocking is fraud, I don't condone such a thing, and wonder how all the mileage correction cowboys keep getting away with it. As discussed on here in the past it is rife. Perhaps becoming less so for the modern connected ones....
I'd say it's just prolific. Since the advent of the digital dash, there are plenty of (Facebook) companies offering "Mileage Correction" for £200, and dongles on Amazon for sale. Not sure how many makes/models actively call home with their mileage on regular biases but I'd say it's the exception rather than the rule.
It's a favorite of taxi drivers and high-mileage salesmen, simply get your mileage corrected between MOT's and services.
It's a favorite of taxi drivers and high-mileage salesmen, simply get your mileage corrected between MOT's and services.
Watched a video on YouTube recently which was talking about police cars, and how mileage correction is quite prolific upon auction purchase as they haven't gone through an MOT at time of sale.
Buy a BMW cheap at auction with 170,000 miles on it, clock it down to 60,000, fresh MOT and sell on for profit. Apparently it's a well known 'thing' in the industry, so I'd say it's still very much alive and well, sadly.
Buy a BMW cheap at auction with 170,000 miles on it, clock it down to 60,000, fresh MOT and sell on for profit. Apparently it's a well known 'thing' in the industry, so I'd say it's still very much alive and well, sadly.
Cloudy147 said:
Watched a video on YouTube recently which was talking about police cars, and how mileage correction is quite prolific upon auction purchase as they haven't gone through an MOT at time of sale.
Buy a BMW cheap at auction with 170,000 miles on it, clock it down to 60,000, fresh MOT and sell on for profit. Apparently it's a well known 'thing' in the industry, so I'd say it's still very much alive and well, sadly.
Buy a BMW cheap at auction with 170,000 miles on it, clock it down to 60,000, fresh MOT and sell on for profit. Apparently it's a well known 'thing' in the industry, so I'd say it's still very much alive and well, sadly.
Edited by Lagom on Sunday 7th May 19:51
I bet you could use a tool, esp for BMWs which I know store it, to check stored usage values as a guide.
Pretty sure even in M54 days the DME was storing hours of operation, on/off cycles, average speed, rotations of different parts etc.
Mine even had left hand flasher vs RH flasher count, roof up/down cycles, etc.
A low mileage car that’s done mega miles will stand out.
Pretty sure even in M54 days the DME was storing hours of operation, on/off cycles, average speed, rotations of different parts etc.
Mine even had left hand flasher vs RH flasher count, roof up/down cycles, etc.
A low mileage car that’s done mega miles will stand out.
Most modern cars log a lot of data in various modules, including the mileage.
Every time there is a glitch, or something unexpected happens or something expected does not, it will be logged, with mileage, speed, time etc. Just to help with tracking intermittent faults etc.
After 2 years most modules will have logged something, and can be interrogated, revealing mileage history.
Unless they’ve been erased, which is a hint in itself.
If I was looking to clock a lease car I’d be more bothered about whether there was a tracker fitted by the lease company. A few people get caught out by this, lease companies aren’t stupid and know what goes on.
Every time there is a glitch, or something unexpected happens or something expected does not, it will be logged, with mileage, speed, time etc. Just to help with tracking intermittent faults etc.
After 2 years most modules will have logged something, and can be interrogated, revealing mileage history.
Unless they’ve been erased, which is a hint in itself.
If I was looking to clock a lease car I’d be more bothered about whether there was a tracker fitted by the lease company. A few people get caught out by this, lease companies aren’t stupid and know what goes on.
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