If you *genuinely* need to change a defunct mileometer, do you need to notify DVLA or similar of the change? Should you wind the new mileometer on to the same reading as the old one? Are you obliged to make a buyer aware if an when you sell the vehicle?
In my opinion ...
You should certainly make the buyer aware of it, otherwise it's a "clocking" fraud, isn't it?
As for the DVLA I think when you sell the car you enter the mileage on the slip you send back to them on a *voluntary* basis, but again it does no harm to put something down. The idea is to stamp-down on clocking - someone could buy your car, and *not* pass on the fact that the mileometer has changed. Not sure what they would do with the info, but you might find somethng on thier web site.
Not sure about resetting the new one to read the same as the old one - you might even knacker a mechanical mileometer doing it!
Should you wind the new mileometer on to the same reading as the old one? Only if you feel like it.
Are you obliged to make a buyer aware if and when you sell the vehicle? No.
But they'll probably notice anyway. Mk2 escorts with 9000 on the clock are rare nowadays :-))
HTH
Steve
Look at it this way - if you saw a car for sale with an obviously false mileage, and no other info on this, you'd walk away wouldn't you? (I would).
If, however, the owner was able to prove that he replaced the speedo with xxx miles on the clock, and the reading on the new one was yyy miles - that's different. Maybe keep the old one just in case.
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Morally yes. Legally no. Unless the buyer asks if the mileage shown is correct. AFAIK this only applies to private sales. Not dealers. You could pay a specialist repairer to reset the replacement speedo to a specific mileage, or easier still, simply fit it and tell the prospective buyer when, and why it was replaced, and the mileage that was on the old one. Also the mileage on the replacement, if it was a s/h replacement. Mike.
No.
I always tell prospective buyers that I cannot vouch that the mileage that was displayed on the odometer when I *bought* the car was truthful, so they shouldn't assume the mileage it now displays is valid either [the things wrap round at 100,000 miles on most vehicles anyway, so it becomes a bit arbitrary...]
Some fleet-sales organisations used to zero the odometer on all their used vehicles before selling them on - that way there was no risk of misrepresentation. I bought several ex-fleet cars back in the '80s with zeroed mileometers.
"R. Murphy" mumbled:
Some digital mileometers can be set once to match the pulled one.
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I went round this one with my Mondeo Ghia X, when the speedometer packed in. It briefly swept right round the dial to 150mph, then died! The fuel gauge went down too.
In the end I purchased the replacement speedo, and a new PCB for the instrument cluster. I wanted to preserve the integrity of the car's service history, so I carefully dismantled the new speedo, and used a power drill on the drum of the odometer (no, really!) to run it forward to the 63,000 miles (approx) that the old speedo had clocked up when it packed in.
The mileage of the car has therefore been preserved. Under these circumstances, when I sell the car, I wouldn't bother to even mention it to the new buyer, as I am not trying to hide anything.
Regards
Alan
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