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How common is car clocking in Ireland?

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  • #62
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,741 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    Esel wrote: »
    Dafuq? Article says 90 deaths from cervical cancer a year.

    Way off-thread anyway....

    HPV is one of the main causes of cervical cancer in Ireland.


  • #63
    corks finest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,966 ✭✭✭corks finest


    enricoh wrote: »
    A lad i worked with was finishing work one Friday and said he was off to see a Lithuanian magician.
    I said naively is it one of the kids birthdays tomorrow and yer getting him in!
    No, he was paying him e70 n getting it clocked. A week later he had a victim n car sold
    FFS


  • #64
    janfebmar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,424 ✭✭✭janfebmar


    Maybe the businesses who specialise and openly advertise in clocking should be restricted or regulated and a register kept?
    And on a slightly different note, a register from car repair garages of all seriously "crashed" cars?

    I know of a car here some years ago that that written off by an insurance company but 3 months later a potential buyer of the car traced the original owner and asked about the history of the car, and was not aware it was written off. That would not be allowed to happen in the UK...they have category A,B,S,N etc.

    Something needs to be done? It is not fair on the many innocent victims here. The government takes the vrt but does not give a s****.


  • #65
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 43,047 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    janfebmar wrote: »
    I know of a car here some years ago that that written off by an insurance company but 3 months later a potential buyer of the car traced the original owner and asked about the history of the car, and was not aware it was written off. That would not be allowed to happen in the UK...they have category A,B,S,N etc.
    I had a car that was written off by an insurance company and I had it repaired and eventually sold it.
    There are many reasons for a car being written off, one of which is simply that the vehicle is BER (Beyond Economic Repair).


  • #66
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,994 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Squidgy Black wrote: »
    HPV is one of the main causes of cervical cancer in Ireland.
    Poster said HPV vaccination causes cancer...

    Not going OT again.

    Not your ornery onager



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  • #67
    Seve OB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,270 ✭✭✭✭Seve OB


    My wife has a super little A3 sports line. 2003.
    Nobody would believe the mileage on it if I tried to sell it.
    36k. She barely ever drives it, just the school run really.
    Genuine though, she hinted at upgrading. I told her no way till she put 50k on it so I should be alright for another decade or so :D


  • #68
    kirving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,291 ✭✭✭kirving


    My favourite line from all these Facebook pages offering "Mileage Correction" and Mapping services is "We are fully insured"

    .....yeah, against someone falling and breaking their leg while waiting around. Your car with the mod? Not so much.


  • #69
    W123-80's
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,096 ✭✭✭W123-80's


    Seve OB wrote: »
    My wife has a super little A3 sports line. 2003.
    Nobody would believe the mileage on it if I tried to sell it.
    36k. She barely ever drives it, just the school run really.
    Genuine though, she hinted at upgrading. I told her no way till she put 50k on it so I should be alright for another decade or so :D

    I would probably believe you if your story checked out!
    There are plenty of examples of genuine one owner, low mileage cars for sale. I'm driving one! Maybe I'm too naïve.
    In 90% of cases a conversation with the owner over the phone will ease most of my concerns. Problem is most buyers are too busy comparing apples with oranges when buying cars privately, especially at the lower end of the budget, they forget to weigh up the what's really important. Some are too busy putting in low ball offers and claiming the car must be clocked instead of actually carrying out a little informal due diligence!
    If I suspected a car was clocked I would neither make a low ball offer or claim it was clocked. I wouldn't even call it. I would just keep scrolling and find something I was interested in calling!


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