At last - Leo does something useful

Leonard Hofstadter

It is finally illegal to clock a car in Ireland - it was always illegal to knowingly sell a clocked car in Ireland but it was not illegal to physically clock a car.

Thankfully this loophole has been closed - though I suppose knowing Ireland it will be the usual case of all the rules and regulations but zero enforcement.

Still, a welcome development.

http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/motors/clocking-mileage-illegal-from-today-1.1655128

YbFocus

What are all the "mileage adjustment" crowds going to do now :rolleyes:

Atlantic Dawn

But with no easy access to the NCT database for recorded mileage during each NCT the legislation is pretty much useless.

L-M

If NCT released that data it would create the greatest disruption the Irish motorist has ever seen.

sawdoubters

catch me if you can my name is dan
sure I am your man

MetzgerMeister

sawdoubters wrote: »

catch me if you can my name is dan
sure I am your man

LOL, wha?

pajor

Sure this cowboy was convicted for it.

http://www.thejournal.ie/national-consumer-agency-conviction-1275267-Jan2014/

colm_mcm

Disappointing thread title. Thought he resigned

Leonard Hofstadter

colm_mcm wrote: »

Disappointing thread title. Thought he resigned

Touché:)!

ABajaninCork

colm_mcm wrote: »

Disappointing thread title. Thought he resigned

Yeah. I was well p1ssed off when I realised he hadn't...:mad:

challengemaster

colm_mcm wrote: »

Disappointing thread title. Thought he resigned

There'd only be another unqualified idiot in line to take the spot anyway

Boskowski

10% may be clocked. Ye right, technically not a false statement - they're careful like that - but you're having laugh for sure.

L-M

Boskowski wrote: »

10% may be clocked. Ye right, technically not a false statement - they're careful like that - but you're having laugh for sure.

10 percent might not be clocked, lol.

Markcheese

Is there anything stopping them printing the odometer reading on the Nct cert ??
Would have thought it'd be the easiest fix ?

YbFocus

Markcheese wrote: »

Is there anything stopping them printing the odometer reading on the Nct cert ??
Would have thought it'd be the easiest fix ?

That's currently done.

Kevwoody

YbFocus wrote: »

What are all the "mileage adjustment" crowds going to do now :rolleyes:

Reminds me of an ad that used to be in a local paper here, it was for "mileage correction", and a mobile number to contact "Big Myles"!!

L-M

Markcheese wrote: »

Is there anything stopping them printing the odometer reading on the Nct cert ??
Would have thought it'd be the easiest fix ?

That is done, but people throw out the old ones and once you get a new NCT you can't get the older reports. It's absolutely ridiculous.

ABajaninCork

Limerick man wrote: »

That is done, but people throw out the old ones and once you get a new NCT you can't get the older reports. It's absolutely ridiculous.

I don't! One way of making sure the mileage is straight when you go to sell...

Fred Swanson

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ironclaw

Limerick man wrote: »

That is done, but people throw out the old ones and once you get a new NCT you can't get the older reports. It's absolutely ridiculous.

Do people actually throw them out? :eek:

Mileage has been on all mine but its a shame you can't put the reg & VIN into the NCT / Motor Tax website and get a mileage reading or even the tests themselves. I can't see any reason why this cannot be done as all that information is sitting in a database somewhere.

SleeperService

ironclaw wrote: »

Do people actually throw them out? :eek:

Mileage has been on all mine but its a shame you can't put the reg & VIN into the NCT / Motor Tax website and get a mileage reading or even the tests themselves. I can't see any reason why this cannot be done as all that information is sitting in a database somewhere.

Well if you were selling a mileage corrected car you surely wouldn't provide old certs with real mileage. Althoughought I have seen people forget to wind back the tippex markings on the tbelt cover.

Tbf, the nct is only as good as the tester. Had a car come back out with 450k miles entered as the mileage. Only went in with 150, no wonder the 4wd was on the way out after 300k miles on the rollers!

R.O.R

Looks like we'll just have to put the Avensis we have due back this year, up for sale with a massively under mileage, incorrect reading on the clocks.

No other option now when we re-install the KM clocks after 3 years in the UK, on MPH clocks.

Shure, a 4 year old Avensis diesel with around 11,000km on the clock, won't raise any eyebrows.......

JohnBoy26

challengemaster wrote: »

There'd only be another unqualified idiot in line to take the spot anyway

Hopefully not big phil Hogan :P