a clocked clio ?

[postman]

hi my friends had a 172 for a number of years now. when he bought it i was a little dubious of the millage on it and thought it possibly had be "wound back"
now hes offered it to me at a reasonable price as hes looking to shift it on. is there anyway to tell if its had the clocks wound back or changed with a plug in or anything like that. thanks. postman

 

[jamesd1263]

Previous mots?

 

[postman]

he bought it at 3 yearold and gave it its first mot

 

[Simon@SprayShack]

HPI?

 

[Revels]

Service history?

 

[Sargara]

he bought it at 3 yearold and gave it its first mot

Unless it has no service history, it would/should have been serviced during that time at which case surely the mileage was recorded?

 

[si_hartlepool]

Out of curiosity what makes you think it's been 'clocked'?

 

[Budgie]

If it's cheap enough and it's been a good car, don't worry about it!

 

[jamesd1263]

Service history then!

Why do u think its been clocked

 

[Martin_172]

other than the ways above, no way to tell really. Other options could have been new dials fitted either brand new resetting it to zero or 2nd hand from a lower millage car, or unplugging the abs fuse causes them not to increase the millage!

 

[plymcl172]

as said previous MOT

 

[Ol’ Tarby]

How many miles is it supposedly on now? It can't of done THAT many miles in the three years before he had it, unless some one was doing about 25k a year in it, which is rare in a Clio?

 

[Budgie]

PMSL. Dave's Trophy had a 72k service after 11 months iirc.

 

[Ol’ Tarby]

PMSL. Dave's Trophy had a 72k service after 11 months iirc.

LOL not including his

 

[Godsense]

other than the ways above, no way to tell really. Other options could have been new dials fitted either brand new resetting it to zero or 2nd hand from a lower millage car, or unplugging the abs fuse causes them not to increase the millage!

Surely this cant be true?

 

[Rob]

Unplugging the speedo sensor does, just depends where the car reads speed from. Box or ABS

 

[Scott™]

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[Godsense]

Would of thought there'd be something built in to at least throw up some errors. But I guess its not that common knowledge

 

[Martin_172]

nope unplug the abs fuse and it shows the millage on the screen but you have no speedo and the millage doesnt go up lol!

 

[si_hartlepool]

Doesn't driving backwards everywhere make the speedo count backwards though?

 

[Martin_172]

its french so probably haha

 

[172cupleeds]

try this link, http://motinfo.direct.gov.uk/internet/jsp/ECHID-Internet-History-Request.jsp you can access every mot the cars ever had,it will tell you if it passed or failed and if so why it failed..it has the place it got done at and also the mileage..
its a really handy tool..if its your mates car he shouldnt have a problem with you getting the registration document number and mot ref number and tapping the numbers in..hope this helps.

 

[Leeshez]

Doesn't driving backwards everywhere make the speedo count backwards though?

My old Fiat 127 did this. The 182 does not. I clocked the millage in the Clio and backed around the corner and it clocked up 1/10th mile.

 

[jimjim150]

My old Fiat 127 did this.

Haha, that's superb. Lovely looking little cars those.

 

[Leeshez]

Haha, that's superb. Lovely looking little cars those.

There you go. From 1990.

 

[Sam@NP]

with the correct software you can see how many miles the car has done, certain engine sensors will record how many cycles they do etc.

 

[172cupleeds]

There you go. From 1990.

And extra brownie points to those who can guess what the other car is by the caravan.lol. Volvo maybe?

 

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humm now lets hope i retain my legendary petrolheadness, not here but around other forums ,and i recon thats an FSO polonez. It is basically another eastern european fiat based on the old fiat strada ?

The caravan might be a bailey, but i think thats pushing it down the road of knowing to much about the wrong things .

 

[jimjim150]

Love the old photo. Much better than this surge of "vintage" pictures on facebook courtesy of Instagram.

Is the car not an old Mazda 323?

 

[James23]

Can someone with clip not see what the ecu is reading the mileage at? sometimes when clocked they only clock it on the clockset and not the ecu too.
this wont tell you if they clocked it on the ecu too though.

 

[is1]

Nissan/Datsun Cherry by the caravan?

 

[columbo]

Nissan/Datsun Cherry by the caravan?

It is indeed.

 

[Leeshez]

Nissan/Datsun Cherry by the caravan?

Yup that was the car. It was the in colour all those years ago. I have had a hair cut since then.

 

[172cupleeds]

LOL..The cherry was my 2nd guess..and iirc one of my old mans 1st cars was the earlier fiat 126.lol.700cc bike engine or something?..and im guessing that what people are saying will be correct about reading certain sensors that record revolutions etc..surely renault should be able to tell you if thats correct?