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Warning - Clocked Car - Carzone/Driving.ie

  • 04-08-2009 7:38pm
    #1
    BeardyGit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,946 ✭✭✭


    http://www.driving.ie/usedcars/index.cfm?fuseaction=car&carID=200932194814555

    Just to give you all a little heads up.

    Without a doubt, it's been clocked. I know the car personally, and the previous owner who I've just spoken with is astonished that it's been clocked like this. He only sold it a few weeks back, and he's 100% on the mileage - It was sold with almost 350,000 KM's on the clock

    It's a smashing truck, but this ad and the current keeper of the vehicle are dishonest in their description and actions. The current keeper also fed the previous owner a line about how he was exporting it the weekend he bought it so he'd need to take the VLC away with him, and therefore couldn't wait for it to be changed into his name....

    Nothing wrong with folk buying and selling cars for a few quid, but not by shafting honest punters by clocking a car. Even the photos are those taken by the previous owner.

    Buyer beware. Spread the word.


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  • #2
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    How do you know?


  • #3
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Need proof. :rolleyes:

    IBFL :p


  • #4
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    Gil_Dub wrote: »
    http://www.driving.ie/usedcars/index.cfm?fuseaction=car&carID=200932194814555

    Just to give you all a little heads up.

    Without a doubt, it's been clocked.

    It's a smashing truck, but this ad and the current keeper of the vehicle are dishonest in their description and actions.

    Buyer beware. Spread the word.

    So he didn't accept your offer of €5000??:pac:


  • #5
    BeardyGit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,946 ✭✭✭BeardyGit


    Post edited to validate the information I've supplied.

    Mods, happy to provide contact details for the previous owner if you'd like to confirm details.

    Gil


  • #6
    Gary ITR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,801 ✭✭✭✭Gary ITR


    How much was it clocked by?


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  • #7
    BeardyGit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,946 ✭✭✭BeardyGit


    Senna wrote: »
    So he didn't accept your offer of €5000??:pac:

    Not my cup of tea - I'm a Landrover man myself, for all the heartache that costs me. Just trying to give folks here a heads up - I know there was interest expressed here when the previous owner advertised it initially. Figured it was better to warn other boards.ies than let someone buy a clocked yoke....


  • #8
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Onkle wrote: »
    How much was it clocked by?
    I would say that the big hand was moved from from 2 to 6 and the little hand from 1 to 2. :D


  • #9
    BeardyGit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,946 ✭✭✭BeardyGit


    Onkle wrote: »
    How much was it clocked by?

    Over 100,000 KM's knocked off the top


  • #10
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Gil_Dub wrote: »
    Over 100,000 KM's knocked off the top
    Proof, eg previous advertisement links to this vehicle.


  • #11
    Mr.Diagnostic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Mr.Diagnostic


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    Proof, eg previous advertisement links to this vehicle.

    So the advertised KM figure is somewhere close to the actual mileage figure?

    Any chance its just a mistake in the advert, or did you see the actual lower mileage on the jeep?


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  • #12
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    Need proof. :rolleyes:

    Hardly the one to be throwing that one around are you?
    Mr.Diagnostic wrote: »
    So the advertised KM figure is somewhere close to the actual mileage figure?


    Not really to be fair . 350,000 km drop to 209,00 is substantial in anyones books.


  • #13
    BeardyGit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,946 ✭✭✭BeardyGit


    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/905053

    No mileage listed, but that's the ad from when it was sold a few weeks back.

    Incidentally, the last owner is known to me - He's a neighbour and now a friend, since he saw the light and bought a landrover too ;)

    I take your point Mr. Diagnostic, but I just got off the phone with the guy who's selling it now. I asked him to confirm the mileage to me, and he told me it's 130k miles/200k km's....

    When I told him that's 100k less than it was two weeks ago, he said "Alright" and hung up. The advertised mileage is crooked.

    Anyway, there's the info. Take it or leave it.

    Here's the previous thread on boards.ie; http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055569613


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