Clocked car

loopa1

Johno100 wrote: »

You made mention in your OP that the MOT mileage (I assume the only MOT the vehicle had had?) matched the lower 30k figure. Did the the vehicle come with a service history and if so how do the mileage figures on that stack up with suspected and purported figures?

Sadly...no service history provided (I was told the car had one, that I couldn't see paperwork showing it because it was all "electronic" these days and Audi would therefore be able to provide. I knew this was BS at the time, but stupidly bought the car regardless). I tried to piece together the missing history and got lucky when the garage that undertook the MOT (since I had their details from the MOT certificate) confirmed they did the service also. What I managed to find out re. mileage and when it was last serviced was suspicious, enough to trigger me to first think the car had been clocked.

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

I find it nigh-on impossible to believe that in a car old enough to have an MOT, therefore >3yrs, the battery has never been disconnected.

Assuming the car is a B8 (2008-2015), page 28 of the U.K. handbook specifically states that the OBC data is reset when the battery is disconnected. I suspect an error has occurred somewhere, but I still very much doubt the car has been clocked. Get someone with VAS1551 or VCDS to read the ECU mileage counter (it will be in km) and work on that as being the truth.

And, as asked above - what do the history and previous MOTs show?

It is a B8, and if the OBC is reset following a battery disconnect, surely it resets to zero? Therefore, the figure could equal the odometer or be lower than it, but never higher. Regardless, if it has been reset, then surely it would reset all trips...so still doesn't explain why OBC1 would be higher than the odometer.

The car’s long gone now, so there’ll be no VAS/VCDS reading on my part.

BeenThroughItAll

loopa1 wrote: »

Sadly...no service history provided (I was told the car had one, that I couldn't see paperwork showing it because it was all "electronic" these days and Audi would therefore be able to provide. I knew this was BS at the time, but stupidly bought the car regardless). I tried to piece together the missing history and got lucky when the garage that undertook the MOT (since I had their details from the MOT certificate) confirmed they did the service also. What I managed to find out re. mileage and when it was last serviced was suspicious, enough to trigger me to first think the car had been clocked.


It is a B8, and if the OBC is reset following a battery disconnect, surely it resets to zero? Therefore, the figure could equal the odometer or be lower than it, but never higher. Regardless, if it has been reset, then surely it would reset all trips...so still doesn't explain why OBC1 would be higher than the odometer.

The car’s long gone now, so there’ll be no VAS/VCDS reading on my part.

As I said, an error.