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Adjust mileage

  • 08-10-2008 11:27am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 456 ✭✭


    Need to adjust mileage on a 08 passat, does anyone know if there is a place that does that in Galway or Dublin ?

    Think its not illegal to adjust unless u sell it on.


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    why do you need to adjust the mileage?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 71 ✭✭jamesO


    Sounds like a dodgie one, any way most diagnostics such as vagcom can detect the real milage even if it has been changed as it is stored in the ecu.

    jO.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,363 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Is this thread a joke or a troll?

    (In before it gets locked down)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,722 ✭✭✭maidhc


    Need to adjust mileage on a 08 passat, does anyone know if there is a place that does that in Galway or Dublin ?

    You will find driving the car in either of these places has the desired effect on the odometer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 456 ✭✭NordicDiver


    maidhc wrote: »
    You will find driving the car in either of these places has the desired effect on the odometer.

    i know but it will take some time..not a troll post by the way. Sure there must be places that do this kinda service ?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭kluivert


    If you are adjusting your mileage up wards for VRT purposes remember that the Revenue have a mileage allowance for petrol and diesel cars.

    No point in adjusting your car to 100k miles, Revenue will not accept that.

    Unless your car is NI or UK reg with less than 6k miles and you wish to avoid paying the Vat, clever!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,344 ✭✭✭Thoie


    Actually, on a slightly related topic, after a bad service at one point, my odometer stopped working. It's now working again, but in the interim I probably did about 500-1000 miles. It's not a major deal as the car is old and I'm unlikely to be selling it on to anyone, but it's irritating me from a service point perspective. Is it possible for a main dealers to adjust the mileage? Would they have some way of checking the actual mileage rather than just my estimate (I'd probably plump for 700 as a midway point)?

    Would it just be expensive hassle?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,801 ✭✭✭✭Gary ITR


    i know but it will take some time..not a troll post by the way. Sure there must be places that do this kinda service ?

    BIK puposes I'd say??

    I was screwed with BIK last year, was going to put the car on bricks and stick the cruise control :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,290 ✭✭✭Ferris


    Onkle wrote: »
    BIK puposes I'd say??

    I was screwed with BIK last year, was going to put the car on bricks and stick the cruise control :)

    I heard a tale of someone doing that but the motor for the fan packed it in and they cooked the engine:eek:.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 456 ✭✭NordicDiver


    Onkle wrote: »
    put the car on bricks and stick the cruise control :)
    Not a bad idea.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66,132 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Please state why you want to adjust the mileage, NordicDiver.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭smoke


    Not a bad idea.


    For some funny reason the name Ferrest Bueller has just entered my mind...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,934 ✭✭✭egan007


    Maybe the OP had the unit replaced and needs it adjusted?

    There are legit reasons for getting an odometer adjusted....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭charlesD


    smoke wrote: »
    For some funny reason the name Ferrest Bueller has just entered my mind...

    Lol, yeah that didn't end up working out too well did it...

    I am curious as to the reason for wanting to do this. I welcome being disproved, but can not think of a positive/legal reason for wanting to advance or retard your mileage.

    Where I live, doing so is not by itself illegal, but you must fill out a mileage disclosure form stating that the mileage listed is not the actual mileage any time the title changes hand. This results in reduced car value or legal ramifications if you fail to report the mileage.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 447 ✭✭siralfalot


    kluivert wrote: »
    Unless your car is NI or UK reg with less than 6k miles and you wish to avoid paying the Vat, clever!


    not a bad idea at all!! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,837 ✭✭✭S.I.R


    Need to adjust mileage on a 08 passat, does anyone know if there is a place that does that in Galway or Dublin ?

    Think its not illegal to adjust unless u sell it on.

    i can do it with a laptop but tbh... if you sell it without declaring or settingti back to the correct milage to the best ofyour knollege.. i do 4 years in prison.... and Yes i will find you when i get out...



    i dont do this anymore for anyone.... only myown cars... which are normally only 100 miles on them from rebuilds or such.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    this thread goes to prison before anyone else does because of it


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