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Traffic decline. First in 30 years
Andi - 9/2/09 at 11:12 PM

http://www.whatcar.com/news-article.aspx?NA=237980

Couldnt say Ive noticed though!

omega0684 - 9/2/09 at 11:16 PM

how do they know how many miles we've all driven, thus how can they say we've driven 3.1 billion less miles?

jollygreengiant - 10/2/09 at 04:53 AM

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Originally posted by omega0684
how do they know how many miles we've all driven, thus how can they say we've driven 3.1 billion less miles?

Every year you get an MOT done, they take a mileage reading. anyone who has enough money can buy the dvla owner data base so its not much of a step to wonder how they know our mileages.

Remember, DATA is MONEY to a business.

02GF74 - 10/2/09 at 08:23 AM

hahah, well I'm gonna throw a spanner in the works and cause the database to crash thus bringing the country to its knees when I get my Landy MOT'ed.

I have changed speedo from LWD to RR to account for the RR Diffs; current reading is about 75 K; but will be 11 K!! hence a negative mileage!

Mr Whippy - 10/2/09 at 08:26 AM

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Originally posted by 02GF74
hahah, well I'm gonna throw a spanner in the works and cause the database to crash thus bringing the country to its knees when I get my Landy MOT'ed.

I have changed speedo from LWD to RR to account for the RR Diffs; current reading is about 75 K; but will be 11 K!! hence a negative mileage!


sure you can go fast enough for the speedo to get a reading?

02GF74 - 10/2/09 at 09:37 AM

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Originally posted by Mr Whippy

sure you can go fast enough for the speedo to get a reading?


fitted but not driven so don't know if the cable will turn the speedo but it has a V8 and I have overtaken vehicles on the motorway, it gets quite scary as you can imagine! (plus the pain of fuel gauge going down! )

Paul TigerB6 - 10/2/09 at 09:49 AM

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Originally posted by 02GF74

I have changed speedo from LWD to RR to account for the RR Diffs; current reading is about 75 K; but will be 11 K!! hence a negative mileage!


Not trying to be funny or anything but couldnt this be seen as "clocking" the vehicle??

02GF74 - 10/2/09 at 10:01 AM

hmmm, interesting point - but only if I sell and claim that it has done 11 k miles surely?

previous speedo had 30 K miles anyway, who knows if that is genuine on a 34 year old car. I have MOTs to show previous mileages anyway.

trogdor - 10/2/09 at 10:24 AM

clocking is legal unless you sell the car as only having done clocked mileage.

There are businesses out there that will change the mileage for you.

I never really take mileage into account when buying a car......... Usually because its really high!

garyo - 10/2/09 at 01:28 PM

seasonally adjusted petrol sales / tax receipts would probably be a fair indicator too, although would need some careful interpretation as a 5% drop in traffic might free up enough congestion to increase everyones fuel efficiency by the same amount again.