PH ads promoting "mileage correction"

[MarJay]

Come on guys, I know the ads are provided by Google, but we all know there is no legitimate reason to have the mileage 'corrected' on a car don't we?

I expected better from Pistonheads to be honest.

[Switch]

Thanks for flagging this up.

As you've pointed out we don't actually serve those ads. They are generated by Google in response to the content of the page you're looking at.

[MattDell]

Probably worth flagging this one up for Stuart.

[LordGrover]

Probably a tad unfair to assume wrong doing. Their website, and others, show several reasons why this service may be required: click.

[Stuart]

Thanks for this, we'll see if we can get it blocked. Quite hard with Google Adsense because they don't have enough granularity to their categories to be able to block "mileage correction" rather than just "automotive" I suspect, but we'll see what we can do.

[AmitG]

LordGrover said:

Probably a tad unfair to assume wrong doing. Their website, and others, show several reasons why this service may be required: click.

I agree. IMHO mileage correction is a perfectly legitimate service that, like many other services, can be abused. I don't think PH should ban ads for it.

I've used it myself after I got the dash cluster of my Espace replaced and Renault couldn't transfer the odometer reading to the new cluster.

[0a]

If PH ran their own ads they would employ 10 people and get a fraction of the ad revenue (=money to make PH and pay for Garlik's 16 cylinders)

Instead, as soon as a dodgy ad like this comes up a quick report means it's gone - no problem.

I'd rather have them employ tech people and journalists (but noone to mend the search function as it's now become a feature) than run a pointless (and uneconomic) ad team.

[MarJay]

There may well be legitimate reasons why you might want to correct mileage, but judging by how often I see them advertised I can't see there is that much business for genuine clock replacements or what have you.

A few years back I bought a motorcycle whose mileage was not correct on the clocks that were fitted to the bike. The dealer informed me of this, and that the clocks were replaced under warranty at 2000 miles. I explained this to the new owner when I sold it. How difficult was that? Not very, I still think that there are no real legitimate uses for this service.