Module that removes 40km from the vehicle's odometer

[mart]

Great post DomDom.

 

[maz0]

Don’t think it helps when these lease companies are offering ridiculous lease deals with 5k max miles on a range rover for £300 a month. They know it will be getting clocked but as long as they can get them out the door its all just a big game.

 

[fizzy]

I wouldn't think it is so easy on many modern cars.
Quite a few now use mobile phones to transmit data to dealers for servicing etc. How do you get around that?
Would look rather dodgy if you car is reading 30,000 miles but the log files show 90,000!

 

[Shox Dr]

Don’t think it helps when these lease companies are offering ridiculous lease deals with 5k max miles on a range rover for £300 a month. They know it will be getting clocked but as long as they can get them out the door its all just a big game.

I’d never thought of it that way. When I leased my first car I looked at previous MOTs, I’d been consistently doing 13k pa for the last 5yrs. And that was when I worked from home.

How people can only doing 5k pa, beats me. Or are they that stupid to think 25ppm over [agreed amount] that isn't going to amount to much over 24/36mths

 

[Craig-SM]

When I had my Skoda a few years ago I fitted a tow bar with dedicated electrics. To get the full benefit of the dedicated electrics you needed to the car programming to be told it had been fitted. Skoda wanted a small fortune to do this so was used recommended on a forum to to find someone local with the coding software for VW cars, which I did through the same site. Arranged to take the car round to be met by a little asian lad who barely looked old enough to drive. Within 10 minutes he'd coded the tow bar and a few other extras that you found in higher spec models but were just switched off in the software. Before he was finished he asked if I wanted my mileage adjusting as he could do that at the same time, which I declined.
Buying a used car I would want to ensure the service records and MOT's corresponding but on something less than 3 year old you may only talking of an initial service and nothing then for 2 years. That's the period when cars are going to be clocked and big money can made on selling an 18 month old car with 14,000 miles on that could have done 80,000 in reality.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Waste of time with electronic mots unless you do it to a car under three years old.
Very naughty but I can see the market with balloon payment financing and lease cars

Aquaintence does exactly that on his leased van

 

[TechnicAl]

I'd like the gov to introduce milage checks on every vehicle for the first 3 years. 20 quid each year- would be well worth it.

Also a mandatory minimum 12 months inside for the perpetrators.

In a fashion there is a check....you need to have it serviced otherwise you invalidate the warranty......surely someone records the mileage

 

[TechnicAl]

Don’t think it helps when these lease companies are offering ridiculous lease deals with 5k max miles on a range rover for £300 a month. They know it will be getting clocked but as long as they can get them out the door its all just a big game.

it helps loads........ive got one...not a Range Rover btw

 

[TechnicAl]

I’d never thought of it that way. When I leased my first car I looked at previous MOTs, I’d been consistently doing 13k pa for the last 5yrs. And that was when I worked from home.

How people can only doing 5k pa, beats me. Or are they that stupid to think 25ppm over [agreed amount] that isn't going to amount to much over 24/36mths

The excess mileage on my Tiguan was 7p a mile.......if you worked it out it was cheaper than jumping from 5K to 8K (the next break). In the end I had £127 excess. I am retired remember. I now have a Kuga on a different deal, they were offering unlimited mileage (to me, who they knew didnt do many) and servicing included...

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Waste of time with electronic mots unless you do it to a car under three years old.

Aye, but any prospective buyer worth their salt would surely check up on the service records if the vehicle was less than 3 years old, when the MOT ought to pick it up.

 

[Wozzaaah]

I’d never thought of it that way. When I leased my first car I looked at previous MOTs, I’d been consistently doing 13k pa for the last 5yrs. And that was when I worked from home.

How people can only doing 5k pa, beats me. Or are they that stupid to think 25ppm over [agreed amount] that isn't going to amount to much over 24/36mths

That's been about my average annual mileage for the last 26 years.

 

[brightspark]

daughters merk lease car went well over the limit and they wanted 2 grand of her excess mileage

 

[Shox Dr]

That's been about my average annual mileage for the last 26 years.

Is it a daily dri ver

 

[Wozzaaah]

You can’t use it for daily use then

At least 5 days a week, usually 6.

 

[rtcosic]

At least 5 days a week, usually 6.

Poor car - it must never get thoroughly warm! Or do you hand it over to younger drivers to give it an annual Italian Tuneup prior to its MoT?

 

[TechnicAl]

For the past 4 years or so my missus car has done about 200 miles a year

 

[Wozzaaah]

Poor car - it must never get thoroughly warm! Or do you hand it over to younger drivers to give it an annual Italian Tuneup prior to its MoT?

The last car I had was a 2004 A4 TDi. Owned it for over 6 years and it never failed the MOT on emissions and I never replaced any part of the exhaust.
Used to and from work every day, 6 and a bit miles each way so it was always plenty warmed up.
Now working a bit further afield so my annual mileage will be going up dramatically.
Might have to look at changing my current car though, I'm currently averaging around 28mpg if I drive it like a vicar.

 

[mrsbruce]

That's been about my average annual mileage for the last 26 years.

I think I’m averaging about 500-800 miles per annum, since I started working from home, and never really go far nowadays. I find the world mostly comes to me, what with the interweb, and Amazon Prime.

If I used the software to remove 40k miles from my little 7 year old car, I’d be left with just over 10k on the clock.

 

[rtcosic]

Might have to look at changing my current car though, I'm currently averaging around 28mpg if I drive it like a vicar.

I got that from the 2009 SV8 driven in Vicar Mode. I passed that on to youngest back in March with 220k on the (undoctored) odometer. On 6 mile run into Haverford I got 19-22 though!

At 6 miles each way that's crying out for a cheap electric car isn't it?

 

[fizzy]

I do about 40,000 miles a year - and I still LOVE driving!
Once upon a time I was driving about 100,000 miles a year - and still loved it.
Once a petrol head always a petrol head - although these days it's diesel