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zeroing clocks
iiyama - 21/4/08 at 11:47 AM

Got any reccomendations for getting the clock zeroed before I finish building? Be nice to have 0000 when I first start to drive and i get the feeling that the car is going to get a new reg anyway.

Cheers peeps!

paulmw - 21/4/08 at 11:50 AM

There is a couple guys on ebay who do it

dogwood - 21/4/08 at 11:52 AM

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Originally posted by paulmw
There is a couple guys on ebay who do it




Yea I think I bought one of there cars

David

tegwin - 21/4/08 at 11:56 AM

It all depends what clocks they are!!!

I zeroed my old sierra clocks...fiddly job getting them all appart, but deffinately doable if you think asbout it....

And no, ataching a drill in reverse doesnt work

Mr Whippy - 21/4/08 at 11:58 AM

on some of the speedo's once the glass is removed you can just turn the rotary dials round with your finger or a pen, they just click.

nick205 - 21/4/08 at 12:04 PM

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Originally posted by tegwin
It all depends what clocks they are!!!

I zeroed my old sierra clocks...fiddly job getting them all appart, but deffinately doable if you think asbout it....

And no, ataching a drill in reverse doesnt work



No, but running the drill forward will and might be quicker dependng on how many miles the clock is showing already

Fatgadget - 21/4/08 at 12:14 PM

There is a word for doing that sort of thing..It's called "clocking" !

trogdor - 21/4/08 at 12:31 PM

i believe clocking is legal, its just illegal to sell a clocked car without telling the next owner.

i could be wrong but am fairly sure thats right.

Mole - 21/4/08 at 12:39 PM

Besides which the clock won't be in the same car it came from.

Mr Whippy - 21/4/08 at 12:52 PM

it's not clocking if the car is new

Fatgadget - 21/4/08 at 01:08 PM

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Originally posted by Mole
Besides which the clock won't be in the same car it came from.


Ummm. So if I go down the scrappy and find a speedo with a lower mileometer reading technically that is not clocking? I understand the bit about informing the purchaser BTW

DarrenW - 21/4/08 at 01:22 PM

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Originally posted by Fatgadget
quote:
Originally posted by Mole
Besides which the clock won't be in the same car it came from.


Ummm. So if I go down the scrappy and find a speedo with a lower mileometer reading technically that is not clocking? I understand the bit about informing the purchaser BTW


Correct. If it were illegal then clock manufacturers would have to find a way to make odometers completely fail safe and never breakdown. This is impossible so replacing clocks is OK as long as the mileages are recorded and subsequent owners are informed.


This does beg the question regarding people who build cars with 2nd hand parts of unknown mileages etc. Virtually impossible to say how many miles each of the parts has done unless are all reconditioned to as new condition. Running old cars and repairing them with scrap yard finds also makes a mockery of the law surrounding fraudulently clocking cars. Every moving bit of the car could be from a different vehicle of unknown mileage but as long as the clocks havent been tampered with its OK. Of course we know why its illegal in terms of increasing newer cars values etc.

Mr Whippy - 21/4/08 at 01:32 PM

thats just a risk you have to take buying a kit car and way they need to be looked over more carefully than a production car.

iiyama - 21/4/08 at 02:23 PM

clocks are digital and off a Hayabusa.

Mole - 21/4/08 at 03:44 PM

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Ummm. So if I go down the scrappy and find a speedo with a lower mileometer reading technically that is not clocking? I understand the bit about informing the purchaser BTW


I wasn't being that general and only really referring to the fact that a kit car is a bunch of second hand parts of sometimes various origins. The odometer might be meaningless anyway.

zetec7 - 21/4/08 at 04:25 PM

Try this for zeroing the clock...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xniyTg5Q2FM

roadrunner - 21/4/08 at 06:34 PM

I'll get the air gun out and try it on my digital clocks then.

Taylor R1 - 21/4/08 at 07:07 PM

try these guys. They corrected a yamaha clock for me last year


http://www.scorpio-electronics.co.uk/