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Dirty Luke
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Post #1 post 28th February 2007 - 11:41 PM
Just watched a report on A Current Affair about a Japanese Import place where they wind back the odometers on the cars to make it look like they have less milage, hence increasing the price.

in some examples the KM's had been put back about 90,000k's!

If you're in Queensland you may still be able to catch it becuase Vic is an hour ahead.

I think its a pretty poor effort to trick people into spending more...

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Psi
Post #2

will have to watch it then, Its not on for an hour and 15 in qld.

I thought most imports were already wound back in japan anyway.

Spidey
Post #3

Your just hearing about this now? It has been rumoured (pretty much truth) for years and years!

Zirtech
Post #4

ud be amazed at the amount of car yards that do it


i never worry about the kms on a car when purchasing

the condition of the car tells the true story

a car can have 80000kms and have a flogged out motor

while a well maintained car with 160000kms can have a motor in much better condition

levinGT
Post #5

i swear ACA is about 10 years behind us on news..
rotang
Post #6

People wind back odos on imports? GET OUT!!! ohnoes.gif

QUOTE(Zirtech @ Mar 1 2007, 06:08 PM) [snapback]1280815591[/snapback]

the condition of the car tells the true story

Nigga knows where it's at
Post #7

bowrofl.gif I guess mine has been then, 40,XXX k's for a 10 year old car i dont think so!

zirtech is right though you can tell by the condition of the car on how its been treated.

IEATU
Post #8

next week aca will tell us about how global warming is melting the polar icecaps.

I still might have a look at this tho

Dirty Luke
Post #9

oh...my apologies.

was new to me.

Jim-Sim
Post #10

dont apologise.

your doing your part.

anybody remember the 'qld hoon' (one of the many) segments on ACA or today tonight when they showed a car from NZ in NZ doing skids saying 'omgz qldrz omgz'

BozzA
Post #11

QUOTE(Jim-Sim @ Mar 1 2007, 07:19 PM) [snapback]1280815847[/snapback]

dont apologise.

your doing your part.

anybody remember the 'qld hoon' (one of the many) segments on ACA or today tonight when they showed a car from NZ in NZ doing skids saying 'omgz qldrz omgz'

Yeah was the rwd converted wrx from memory, pretty sure it was up on here a few weeks before they put it on tv as well.

Scuzzy
Post #12

Wound back odo's on imports? It's almost to be expected.

My 15 year old car had 83,000 on it when I got it, only 5,500 a year!

In a year and a three months I've clocked it up to 115,000. Thats 25,000 in a year laugh.gif

smile.gif

[MZH-07T]
Post #13

ive heard of this being done, actually i think one of my friends duz it but im not sure and im too scared to ask tongue.gif he he but yeah, really it wouldnt be hard to do if u knew ur car well, but neone who knew nething about cars would notice if the ks had been wound back 90xxxkz lol

it can be done on ne car, just make sure when u buy a car u make sure whatever number is on the rego paper is on the car

Nvious
Post #14

I guess the only way is to look at the aesthetics of the car and compare them to the Odometer KMs......
frankxinyu
Post #15

meh, it only tricks the ppl who believe in it.

you can tell by the engine condition any way

Scuzzy
Post #16

Another thing to do is a VCheck cert on cars that have been here a while, mine was newly registered in 2003 with 64,500 by a dealer, then two transfers with very little K's, and then between the last entry and the guy I bought it from (since K's are only marked when rego transfers), it had done upto the 83,000. This did strike me as odd, but I wasn't overly worried, the condition of the car was great, and I looked at a few smile.gif
noosa_boy
Post #17

mm definatly expected. But thinking bout it who wants to travel big distances in japan going like 20 km/h for like a 3 hr trip

(tokyo drift is bullshit, ive been to japan) but there is some roads liek that where u can go very fast but the highway isnt that big

MYB16
Post #18

but i thought Japanese drivers only drove around 5,000km a year due to the fact that they have such high highway/city taxes to use roads... laugh.gif

Plus they are wound back whilst still in Japan, its not Illegial over there is it??

noosa_boy: there are 3 levels of highways in some places...the highway isnt that big, lol.

MJG87
Post #19

As Scuzzy said, if you are concerned about the 'milage' of a car you are buying, that V-Check will sort you straight out smile.gif

ron180
Post #20

A few months after purchasing my 180, i looked at one of the japanese stickers in the door jam. It must be a service sticker and the km,s were quite a few kays over what the speedo said! Oh well!
Alex GTST
Post #21

Damn, my skyline had like just over 92thou on the clock when I got it.

12 year old car.

I missed the show, did they mention what import yard?

EVOLVE
Post #22

^^^^I'm guessing every importer and dealer do it to ertain vehicles so it can sell quicker.

It's not hard to do it, just flick the lock and turn, but the trick is don't go lower then your last recorded klms with the transport department (not really a trick, its pretty logical)
Alex GTST
Post #23

Hmmm, the thing being is the yard I got my car from are now as I found out, bit on the dodgy side.

Sold a car to a guy with a cracked head. (The car had the cracked head not the guy, just to clear that up for you easily confused folk)

My car had holes in the boot from a previous spoiler, which they didn't mention to me, told them about it, they said, oh we must have missed it.

They said send us some pics, so I did, then their reply was, well what would you like us to do about the holes? The car has already gone.

|2oo
Post #24

QUOTE(MYB16 @ Mar 1 2007, 09:13 PM) [snapback]1280816361[/snapback]

but i thought Japanese drivers only drove around 5,000km a year due to the fact that they have such high highway/city taxes to use roads... laugh.gif

Plus they are wound back whilst still in Japan, its not Illegial over there is it??

noosa_boy: there are 3 levels of highways in some places...the highway isnt that big, lol.

my sister lives in japan and just clock 5000kms on her car in just under 2 years that she has had it. she drives everywhere and doesnt catch the train. most of the street in japan at 40km/h and highways are very expensive so you dont often go on them.

LUDEcrs
Post #25

Any car, not just imports can have wound back clocks, its not rocket science, its just its much harder with digital speedo's these days.

In 02 I believe Holden introduced a prevailent, to the Monaro's anyway.... if the Monaro is over 100,000km's the clock can't be wound back without spending about $3K. You can't swap odometers in them apparently either... whether or not this is true, is just speculation at this time.

Anyone care to comment?

Alex GTST
Post #26

QUOTE(|2oo @ Mar 1 2007, 11:37 PM) [snapback]1280817069[/snapback]

my sister lives in japan and just clock 5000kms on her car in just under 2 years that she has had it. she drives everywhere and doesnt catch the train. most of the street in japan at 40km/h and highways are very expensive so you dont often go on them.



Well the other car I have, I've had it for like just over 2 years, only done just over 20thou on the clock.

Calculon
Post #27

Dont buy an import off of a dealership. No import in any yard has true k's on it.

^sims^
Post #28

hmm.. I always wondered why imports always had less than 100000k's on them! haha

I just thought asian people didnt drive very much...... unsure.gif tongue.gif

warney
Post #29

QUOTE(LUDEcrs @ Mar 1 2007, 11:40 PM) [snapback]1280817080[/snapback]

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In 02 I believe Holden introduced a prevailent, to the Monaro's anyway.... if the Monaro is over 100,000km's the clock can't be wound back without spending about $3K. You can't swap odometers in them apparently either... whether or not this is true, is just speculation at this time.

Anyone care to comment?



for $350 i can get that fixed smile.gif pick some numbers ya want on the car and whalla !!!!!! took my contact 3 mths to get the crack for the dash, but it cost him 5k to get it

Alex GTST
Post #30

QUOTE(^sims^ @ Mar 2 2007, 09:32 AM) [snapback]1280817711[/snapback]

I just thought asian people didnt drive very much...... unsure.gif tongue.gif



Nope we drive alot. burnout.gif

Scuzzy
Post #31

Ha, I just had a look at the spare parts car sitting in my driveway I bought a few months ago (also a 15 years old car) with 70,000km's on its clock, pretty funny really smile.gif

Alex GTST
Post #32

Well now because of this thread everyone is going to be freaking out.

But yeh, I think ACA is behind the times and sometimes get's desperate for stories.

RetardedMonkey
Post #33

My 1989 R32 GTST only had 32,000km rolleyes.gif

Alex GTST
Post #34

I think some are genuine, some dodgy.

But well there you go, the risks involved with getting an import.

EVOLVE
Post #35

QUOTE(Calculon @ Mar 2 2007, 09:24 AM) [snapback]1280817679[/snapback]

Dont buy an import off of a dealership. No import in any yard has true k's on it.


So buying one privately would be alright? How did imports get here in the first place, most likely through dealers.

My friend got a soarer not to long ago it has 171,000klms and was in oz for only 2 years and the dude left it in storage for a while. Since its a 92 model we saw these as genuine klms so he got it even though there was another with with 100,000klm less at the same price but was a little worse for wear.

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