WTF? Digital Mileage "Correction"??

thehomeofDob

http://www.gumtree.ie/dublin/42/54109742.html

Some lad offering to reduce car mileage? I always thought these were shady under the counter offerings, not public adds for the masses. Supposedly untraceable (so his add says). :mad:

Nothing wrong with it once if you sell the car you make the buyer aware of it.

Cookie_Monster

RoverJames wrote: »

Nothing wrong with it once if you sell the car you make the buyer aware of it.

Would you buy a car off a guy who openly states he clocked it just because he felt like it though?

Would depend on the car, the overall condition and the price
All I'm pointing out is that there is nothing wrong with offering this service in the eyes of the law. As I generally change my car every 3 to 6 months I wouldn't fancy it as I reckon it would turn off many folk.

thehomeofDob

RoverJames wrote: »

Nothing wrong with it once if you sell the car you make the buyer aware of it.

Why would the seller make note that it's untraceable if most of his customers were honest to good people? It's the ones that won't make you aware of it that are the problem - especially for first time buyers like myself.

mickdw

They have been advertising in buy & sell for as long as I can remember. They usually call it correction though to cover themselves - so you would only be using them if the clocks were showing the wrong miles for some reason! Ya right

-Chris-

Can we just clarify on-thread that the service this seller is offering is legal and no-one is insinuation otherwise.
Any discussion here is about the potential misuse of this person's services, which would be outside of his/her control or influence.

Carry on...

-Chris-

-Chris- wrote: »

Can we just clarify on-thread that the service this seller is offering is legal and no-one is insinuation otherwise.

Done in first post

Stevie Dakota

Legal maybe, morally reprehensible certainly.

mikewest

Stevie Dakota wrote: »

Legal maybe, morally reprehensible certainly.

Buy a Renault Scenic with one of their notorious dashes, get replacement dash from breakers with wrong mileage, get it corrected by this guy, whats reprehensible about that?

Yakuza

Legal, only because it hasn't been deemed illegal, I'd say. A bit like "legal" highs from these so-called head shops,

*puts on coat and heads over to AH*.

*comes back*

Having said that, I've read on some Renault forums about issues with the electronic dash in Scenic (II's) where it would add thousands of miles onto the odometer at random, so it would be legitimate to "correct" the mileage there, but that should only be done by an authorised garage, not someone with a mobile number from a free ad website.

It is just another anomaly in the law that allows a service to be offered that (99.9% of the time) can realistically only can have one possible use, to defraud potential car buyers.

Stevie Dakota

mikewest wrote: »

Buy a Renault Scenic with one of their notorious dashes, get replacement dash from breakers with wrong mileage, get it corrected by this guy, whats reprehensible about that?

Nothing at all, but I think you are being naive if you think that is where he makes his money.

mikewest

mikewest wrote: »

Buy a Renault Scenic with one of their notorious dashes, get replacement dash from breakers with wrong mileage, get it corrected by this guy, whats reprehensible about that?

Buying the Scenic

thehomeofDob

I would agree with the point that it would need to be done by a reputable garage. I never knew this could be done, makes one a bit more warey going out to look at cars.

Tigger

100% safe, secure and with no previous traces left

this bit speaks volumes

Digitaljunkie

Tigger wrote: »

this bit speaks volumes

The original mileage is normally stored in the eprom and can be checked with diagnostics such as eg. vagcom on edc15's.