Man of Honour
Never broken the limit for a quick/safer overtake?Driving on the road isn't supposed to be fun, that's what track days are for.
Never broken the limit for a quick/safer overtake?Driving on the road isn't supposed to be fun, that's what track days are for.
Nasher when electricity meters were introduced... "Meter, which everybody immediately bypasses. Except when the electricity company comes round."
Thankfully most of the population doesn't think like you.
It would definitely lead to people clocking cars again.
Yea because no one messed with their electricity meters![]()
As previously mentioned in this study, manipulation of an odometer device is an easy and quick to perform, which incentivises the fraudulent practice of rolling back a car's mileage. The newest development in the EU to halt this negative trend is Regulation (EU) 2017/1151 on Worldwide harmonised Light-duty vehicles Test Procedures, which entered into force in September 2017, and obliges car manufacturers to prove they have secured odometer devices in newly produced cars. Nevertheless, up to now, improved security measures for odometer readings were only used in certain car makes and were not widespread (e.g. Tesla gathers odometer records remotely through the 'event data recorder'/a car's 'black box', together with many other data about a car's usage 56). Even if new cars begin to be equipped with more reliable technology, it will take (as assumed in the research paper in Annex 1) between 15 to 20 years to see results. This is due to the lifespan of cars. Data regarding the average age of passenger cars in the EU in the last decade reveals that the fleet is getting older, as Europeans tend to hold on to their vehicles longer (see Figure 3 in Annex 1). Therefore, as indicated in the commissioned research paper, installing more secured odometer devices in new vehicles only will not solve the persisting problem of easy tampering in the existing car fleet.
It already is for most brand new cars? They get cracked nearly immediately due to demand from (as you said) the lease and PCP markets as well as private hire or anyone wishing to protect their expensive cars from heavy usage.And in 10-20 years time the odo will have been cracked on current cars anyway.
To support the system, various parties, such as garages, panel beaters, fast fitters, tyre centres, vehicle inspection centres and so on, are obliged to cooperate and provide information about the odometer reading at the time that the vehicle is presented to them for servicing or repair.
Alongside this, the Car-Pass system has had various other significant repercussions: Thanks to Car-Pass, prices on the domestic market are a better reflection of the actual value of the vehicle. This trend has been prompted by the fact that sellers no longer charge artificial price increases based on manipulated odometer readings, and consumers no longer have to keep a risk premium in reserve when purchasing a vehicle. This price trend developed slowly and did not trigger a shock effect in the market. Car-Pass has made the biggest difference to sales to consumers, which was precisely the intention. Consumers form the largest share of the market in the second-hand sector, and the knowledge that they base decisions on is limited. They clearly recognise the advantages of the Car-Pass system, like increased transparency, credibility and professionalism. Car-Pass also indirectly affects other kinds of fraud, and creates growth opportunities for the sector, thanks to increased consumer confidence.
seems Belgium has near eradicated clocking - a 'carpass' system - this would do it
https://www.car-pass.be/files/article_files/file/39/2016.09.06 carpass storytelling gold_final-eng.pdf
I haven't got a tyre balancing machine at home.
Make and model Average annual mileage in each of the first three years Number of cars in sample
Tesla Model S 12,392 846
Nissan Leaf 8,241 1,026
Renault Zoe 5,736 394