Dodgy speedo?

[thornz]

http://www.carjam.co.nz/car/?plate=YB6613&search=Check

have just searched this car's plates and have noticeed that at one of its WOF inspections, the odometer has magically lost 444kms. Have spoken to the current owners and are admanat that the speedo hasnt been wound back, and that it must have been a error by the person recording the kms? Does that sound legitimate? The rest of the histroy seems pretty to fit, just that one instance?

Thoughts on this one?

[FXGTV]

Well you would think if someone was going to deceive you, they would take off more than 444 ks i.e a few thousand. Sounds like a clerical error to me, it happens.

[thornz]

Of course 444kms doesnt seem all that much, but then if you add on the distance actually travelled over that six months as well, who knows what the difference could actually be (if it is a case of being wound back, not a clerical error). The next two wofs they averaged 50kms and 40kms a day, which is a faier whack.

[~SlideWays~]

Could have replaced a faulty gauge cluster?

[TRD Man]

Looks like a typo to me. I would think the person who entered the mileage in the computer has wrongly read a 125 or 126 as 123.

The averages are all over the place throughout it's recorded history so I wouldn't be using only the following two months as a guide.

[thornz]

Looks like a typo to me. I would think the person who entered the mileage in the computer has wrongly read a 125 or 126 as 123.

The averages are all over the place throughout it's recorded history so I wouldn't be using only the following two months as a guide.

I realise they are all over the place, merely just an example of a "worst" case scenario. I am thinking more of just a typo as well though.

[xsspeed]

The average jumps up tp 50 because someone has entered a lower number that should have been there. At the next wof they probably got the number right, so then working it out by the recorded odo readings you would get 50kms/day where it probably should have been less.

Have seen it heaps on carjam, some cars say they have averaged 1000kms+ per day because of similar obvious stuff ups.

It will just have been misrecorded