Letter about "clocking"

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So came home today to find I have a letter about a car I use to own and its mileage.
Now I don't know how to clock cars or what it involves. I've filled out the letter telling them I bought and sold the car to private Traders and of course any details I knew. Its been at least 2 years since I sold that car so of course I can't remember dates. My question is this.
What is likely to happen next?

Also I think I know who would have clocked the car but don't have any proof.

Cheers
 
As far as I'm aware once you're no longer the registered keeper, the car is not your concern. They could obviously check the MOT mileage/time of your ownership, to know you haven't clocked the car.

Can't think of anything else.
 
might be able to help them clamp down on clocking but who cares eh....
Assume they wont get anywhere with it but not exactly that time consuming to fill out a form and send it back?
 
OP you won't hear much, if anything more about it. If I happened to know the details I'd probably have filled the forms out too though wouldn't have went to much effort.

It's quite disappointing (though not surprising) really how much clocking still goes on now - particularly with some relatively expensive and new cars where depretiation over a period of a few years will be quite heavily increased by the extra mileage. A few k miles off before each service and or MOT never hurt anyone eh.....
 
[TW]Fox;24972643 said:
So? It's nice to help out and anything that can be done to combat clocking is surely good.

Disappointing attitude.
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This is true and I realised this after posting. Although we don't know what the letter says though or how it comes across / what they're saying, as the OP hasn't shown us it, i.e. whether they're implicating him or just asking for info.
 
I've received one before for a relatively new car. I filled in the details as per necessary and sent it back. I knew the mileages from start to finish down to the last digit.

Stinky attitude from some forum members here. I can safely assume if they were landed with a clocked car and found out they wouldn't maintain their viewpoints of "just shredding it".
 
Howard said:
Although we don't know what the letter says though or how it comes across / what they're saying, as the OP hasn't shown us it, i.e. whether they're implicating him or just asking for info.
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It doesn't appear like it came across as anything other than a general inquiry to clamp down on clocking.

If it were blatantly saying "you clocked a car you used to own" I imagine the OP might have mentioned that. Furthermore, IF the OP had have clocked it, would he be posting it here anyway?
 
As-long as the letter was nicely worded, I'd help them out :). If however it was written by the same people that write the TV Licensing letters or similar tone, it'd be going in the bin. You want my help? Ask me nicely.
 
Had one for my old car I traded in. Sadly it turns out it was involved in an insurance claim and they wanted to find out what the history i.e mileage was.
 
I've filled out the form they send and even filled out the comments section saying if they need further information to contact me.
I'm surprised you can clock cars still. I thought that this were only done in the 90s with 90s cars not a 2005 Fiesta.
 
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