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Avoiding a Clocked Car
November 11th, 2010 | 
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Sellers were offering to clock cars for £40 a time, allowing dodgy dealers to falsify a motor’s history and net thousands of pounds in profit. And we know this, because we’ve done it! Posing as someone interested in these so-called ‘mileage correction’ services, we actually got two cars clocked instantly, increasing their value by an incredible £3,000.
When we told eBay what we’d done – and, more importantly, how we’d done it – its spokesman thanked us for bringing the problem to his attention. After speaking to the site’s lawyers, he said: “We are revising our policies so that, in future, these listings will be taken down as soon as we are made aware of them.” The spokesman explained that eBay will soon be launching an “encouraging illegal activity” policy, which these clockers would infringe. “It means that if a sale is found to be doing that, it will be taken down from the site,” he added.
Clocking is estimated to cost UK motorists around £100million per year, and it’s as prevalent today as it ever was. What’s more, this latest scam isn’t only for old cars with analogue odometers. The digital ones can be altered just as easily – which is ironic, because they were introduced to try to cut down on the illegal practice!
So, how did we carry out our sting? We logged on to eBay to find someone willing to clock a car. It wasn’t hard – there were several firms to choose from – but we picked one which offered “mileage correction” for digital and analogue odometers on Japanese imports. A statement on the auction page read: “If your car has done 80,000km, we can reset it back to the correct UK mileage, 50,000 miles”. Clearly, that’s the service provider’s justification for doing what he does, but as we could not lay our hands on a Far Eastern import, we thought we’d try our luck with some others.
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The Dodge Viper coupe model
The Viper is a new 2 person, 2-door sports car in two trim levels – the SRT10 and SRT10 Coupe-Cabriolet model. Both bars are equipped with a standard 8.4-liter V10 engine that produces 600 horsepower speed Mammoth available. 2010 Viper SRT10 is strong relative to its latest model generation. It has been recently decorated with beautiful body acute angle. In addition, the engine was developed and is now capable of producing a torque of 711 Nm
The Viper SRT10 Coupe model was released in 2005 as a vehicle for model year 2006 at the Auto Show in Detroit. The car shares more of its body panels with the convertible style, but he’s back and side walls of style indices coupe design.
The new coupe model resembles the previous Viper GTS model and the fly-shaped bubble remains the same, with its beautiful tail lights. In addition to upgrades to its original style, the Dodge Viper is also some improvements inside.
The new Dodge Viper SRT10 Convertible models come with a 10 cylinder 8.4 liter General valves that can produce 600 horsepower at 6100 rpm and torque of 560 lb ft / min 5000 rpm. The fuel vehicle is 12 miles per gallon in the city streets and 22 miles per gallon on the highway road. Transmission six-speed manual with overdrive is standard in both trim levels.
If the 2010 Dodge Viper SRT will be 10 in reality, it should be sufficient to encourage fans of motor sport worldwide.