I think it could be factory TBH but I may be wrong. Highly unlikely that a C220 would be speed limited in the first place.
I was firstly thinking that it could be to frig the odometer but then the speedo wouldn't read correctly.
[Edited on 3/10/18 by wylliezx9r]
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
George Best
Bang on guys, thanks.
Yes 2014 vehicle and 43K miles puts is within the 10K per year lease limit I would think!
The annoying bit is that it had a private plate on it with the motor company name at the bottom of the plate, and the private plate letters read the
motor company name so we can only assume that they have fitted this device to their own car.
What else have they fitted to their sales cars I wonder!
I'm not sure how it works, whether it comes with mileage installed in it and then the car continues to count upwards from that number or whether
it limits the rate at which the miles are added, or like you say allows you to reset the miles and it not revert back to what it used to be.
Upon reading the ebay ads it seems you add the unit in then correct the mileage presumably using a specific diagnostic/programming bit of kit and this
plug in gizmo stops it reverting back to what the other control units know it should be.
How can it even be legal to sell this kind of thing?
You fit the item then you turn it off and on using a function in the car. Usually stop start button or cruise control. Turned off the odometer counts
up normally. Activated it stops counting..
Sounds very illegal!
Moral of the story, yes even modern day cars can be clocked.
When every you get a new car, whip out the speedo and check for anything like this installed in there!
quote:Originally posted by locoboy
I'm not sure how it works, whether it comes with mileage installed in it and then the car continues to count upwards from that number or whether
it limits the rate at which the miles are added, or like you say allows you to reset the miles and it not revert back to what it used to be.
Upon reading the ebay ads it seems you add the unit in then correct the mileage presumably using a specific diagnostic/programming bit of kit and this
plug in gizmo stops it reverting back to what the other control units know it should be.
How can it even be legal to sell this kind of thing?
[Edited on 3/10/18 by locoboy]
Probably legal to sell it, but illegal to use it!
If it were illegal to sell then it should reduce the number of them in use.
Illegal to sell the car without declaring it or declaring an incorrect mileage. Daft really as why else would you fit it other than to increase the
value by having lower miles!
I've seen it loads when I worked at the auctions with cars which are ex lease and obviously clocked.
As mentioned above its not illegal to alter mileage until you try sell it.
I've seen tons of lease cars coming back with 29500 miles on a 30000 lease. A lot of newer cars 2015 onwards its getting harder to do this.
The new BMW is connected so updates the mileage daily so will be more difficult unless you disable it.
Its a shame with that car that it has been done as the engine may have done 200,000 miles. A more reliable way to tell is wear on belts and rear discs
tell a lot. Also bushes on suspension tend to wear at around 80 to 100k so look at them and see if they have signs of wear.
quote:Originally posted by jossey
I've seen it loads when I worked at the auctions with cars which are ex lease and obviously clocked.
As mentioned above its not illegal to alter mileage until you try sell it.
I've seen tons of lease cars coming back with 29500 miles on a 30000 lease. A lot of newer cars 2015 onwards its getting harder to do this.
The new BMW is connected so updates the mileage daily so will be more difficult unless you disable it.
Its a shame with that car that it has been done as the engine may have done 200,000 miles. A more reliable way to tell is wear on belts and rear discs
tell a lot. Also bushes on suspension tend to wear at around 80 to 100k so look at them and see if they have signs of wear.
Most (if not all) company cars are on an annual mileage figure. If you go over that figure you pay more as the value of the car will have dropped
more. I can well imagine people trying to find ways around this!
quote:Originally posted by Angel Acevedo
Am I the only one to notice that doing so the car will have more miles with less service visits? therefore even worst condition?
Not the only one to notice this, but if it's a leased company car or private lease as long as the car survives to the end of the lease term the
driver's not going to be worried since they won't own the car anyway.
and goes zoom)
