mcbutler wrote: ↑Tue Sep 28, 2021 5:28 pm
tiglon wrote: ↑Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:20 pm
mcbutler wrote: ↑Tue Sep 28, 2021 12:34 pm
Until not too long ago a loop hole existed in the law regarding clocking.
If you leased a car with an allowance of 10k miles per annum for example and you exceeded that substantially, as many people do. You could pay to have the mileage reset quite openly.
I used the service on many occasions and it worked like this.
Note last service mileage, plug in machine, machine then generates random mileage figures in all recording loactions, you simply pick a figure close to and above the last service mileage and thats it.
The loophole was in the fact that YOU were not SELLING the car you were returning it to a lease company and they auction them off to clear the stock.
So the potential to have a clocked car is there if it was a lease vehicle in its first years.
Last time I had this done was 2012.
Not allowed now though
Not trying to be a dick, but that would still have been 100% covered by fraud laws so perhaps not advisable to put it out there publicly! It might not have been illegal to alter the odometer, but as soon as you dishonestly claim that to be the accurate mileage so as to get a pecuniary advantage, it becomes fraud.
Correct but no one was claiming it to be true, you dont sign anything to attest to mileage accuracy when returning any lease I have ever had.
Apologies, I chose my words poorly. To be more precise:
Fraud by false representation (Fraud Act 2006, section 2).
-made a false representation
-dishonestly
-knowing that the representation was or might be untrue or misleading
-with intent to make a gain for himself or another, to cause loss to another or to expose another to risk of loss.
The representation doesn't have to be a signed document, it doesn't even have to be words, it can be communicated by conduct and can be express or implied.
Info can be found here -
https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/fraud-act-2006. I'll leave it at that and let you make your own mind up.