Vehicle I Sold Clocked - How does this happen?
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Three years ago, I sold a 2010 Citroen Nemo with 210,000 miles on the clock. Out of interest, tonight I checked the MOT history to see if it's still on the road. It is, but the MOT's show 18 June 2016: 213,679 miles, 1 Feb 2017: 103,475 miles. To me it seems obvious that it's been clocked, but how does this not show up automatically?
fooby said:
Three years ago, I sold a 2010 Citroen Nemo with 210,000 miles on the clock. Out of interest, tonight I checked the MOT history to see if it's still on the road. It is, but the MOT's show 18 June 2016: 213,679 miles, 1 Feb 2017: 103,475 miles. To me it seems obvious that it's been clocked, but how does this not show up automatically?
To me it seems like it may have had a speedo or clock pod change and it does seem to show up automatically, when you check the MOT history. Not like they are hiding it from what you've written. fooby said:
Three years ago, I sold a 2010 Citroen Nemo with 210,000 miles on the clock. Out of interest, tonight I checked the MOT history to see if it's still on the road. It is, but the MOT's show 18 June 2016: 213,679 miles, 1 Feb 2017: 103,475 miles. To me it seems obvious that it's been clocked, but how does this not show up automatically?
As far as the MOT's concerned, it does. The tester has to confirm that an out-of-expectation mileage reading is correct.It's not illegal to change the mileage on a car, y'know.
fooby said:
Three years ago, I sold a 2010 Citroen Nemo with 210,000 miles on the clock. Out of interest, tonight I checked the MOT history to see if it's still on the road. It is, but the MOT's show 18 June 2016: 213,679 miles, 1 Feb 2017: 103,475 miles. To me it seems obvious that it's been clocked, but how does this not show up automatically?
I was doing something similar a couple of weeks ago, to see if some of my old motors were still out there. The lad across the road has bought himself a very nice old 4.4 X5 which looks every bit as good as the 115k mile car it appears to be. Except the mileage has changed over the last few years. Twice. Looks like it's actually done over 200k miles. I haven't the heart to ask him if he checked it out before he bought it.more common than a lot of people want to believe,
theres no surprise given the number of companies popping up offering "mileage correction"
at lot of this stems from low mileage lease deals, 6k p.a cover 25k in 2 years wind it back to 11k for 50 quid, the dealers don't care as long as it doesn't stand it it goes either to auction or through as approved used.
theres no surprise given the number of companies popping up offering "mileage correction"
at lot of this stems from low mileage lease deals, 6k p.a cover 25k in 2 years wind it back to 11k for 50 quid, the dealers don't care as long as it doesn't stand it it goes either to auction or through as approved used.
I've chopped 40K miles off my diesel Alfa by changing the speedo. The old speedo worked fine, I was just updating the interior to the higher spec.
I could do this by going to the dealer and getting it reset (several hundred £ for the speedo and whatever they charge for the reset). Or I could write the old figure and the current figure of the new speedo in the service book and remember that the car has done more miles than it looks. The MOT mileage will clearly show this at the next text.
I can see if you were doing mega mileage in a diesel, you could switch speedos and do say 40K in a year and then on one would be any wiser.
I could do this by going to the dealer and getting it reset (several hundred £ for the speedo and whatever they charge for the reset). Or I could write the old figure and the current figure of the new speedo in the service book and remember that the car has done more miles than it looks. The MOT mileage will clearly show this at the next text.
I can see if you were doing mega mileage in a diesel, you could switch speedos and do say 40K in a year and then on one would be any wiser.
fooby said:
Three years ago, I sold a 2010 Citroen Nemo with 210,000 miles on the clock. Out of interest, tonight I checked the MOT history to see if it's still on the road. It is, but the MOT's show 18 June 2016: 213,679 miles, 1 Feb 2017: 103,475 miles. To me it seems obvious that it's been clocked, but how does this not show up automatically?
As TooMany2CVs said, clocking a car is not illegal. Never has been.Also, you are only checking the MoT history... what sort of resolution would you be expecting???
My old audi which I sold to a bunch of scammers had 419 500 miles on last mot six months before I sold it.
Next MOT it had magically changed to 152 000 miles. Quite the correction.
I would bet huge sums of money the only reason the mileage changed was as part of a sale scam. Some poor unsuspecting person bought my car which had 440 000 miles on it thinking it had only done 150k.
One of the reasons I am so glad you can now check MOT history online.
Next MOT it had magically changed to 152 000 miles. Quite the correction.
I would bet huge sums of money the only reason the mileage changed was as part of a sale scam. Some poor unsuspecting person bought my car which had 440 000 miles on it thinking it had only done 150k.
One of the reasons I am so glad you can now check MOT history online.
POORCARDEALER said:
Saw a vehicle recently where last three MOTs were roughly 160K, 370k, 162K......was a Citroen and middle mileage had been MOT'd in Kilometers as by pressing a button you can change from miles to kms and back.
Middle mileage is still an eye opener, would be 230K miles.KevinCamaroSS said:
POORCARDEALER said:
Saw a vehicle recently where last three MOTs were roughly 160K, 370k, 162K......was a Citroen and middle mileage had been MOT'd in Kilometers as by pressing a button you can change from miles to kms and back.
Middle mileage is still an eye opener, would be 230K miles.Gassing Station | Speed, Plod & the Law | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff