Kilometres or Miles
 

Hope someone can help cos I'm a bit confused about something :confused:.

Went to have a look at a JDM scooby for sale at a garage yesterday and it was showing 64,000 on the clock and when I asked if that was miles or kilometres they advised that it was miles.

What I don't get is shouldn't the reading on the clock be the amount in kilometres cos otherwise surely someone would have had to have taken the clocks out and changed them to show the equivelant in miles on the clock and if they've done that then how do you know the number showing now is genuine??

Is this normal, I thought what normally happened was the mileage on the clock was left as is but you got a certificate with the car to show how many KM were on it when it came into the country and then once the speedo conversion is done it would clock up in miles from then on??

pls help :cuckoo:.

Probably not much help but my imported Pajero shows the reading in kms.

mine wrx is showing about 165000 on the clock, when you work out the miles/kms bit it all adds up to about 120000ish.

but if its reading 110mph on the speedo it might still be reading in km's.

ask for the date, or speedo reading from when it was converted.

unless it was brought over here with about 20 kms on or brand new.

Your thinking is spot on bgood. There is no way they can validate the mileage once they've tampered with it to alter it's reading from km to miles. I was once told that a GT4 I was looking at was showing miles (about 50k) because they'd "electronically converted the signal from the gearbox, therefore the clock had wound itself back to show the reading in miles instead of kilometers." When you consider that the car had an analogue, ie rotating, display, I laughed and fooked straight off. I can't believe they think some people will swallow that sort of crap.

When I bought my imported Scoob, the garage had converted the speado/odometer to read miles, and gave me a certificate saying that the reading up to X was in Kms and from then on it was miles. Came in handy when I came to sell it, as the mileage didn't appear worse than it actually was.

This is how it should be. Always handy cos the clock says 100,000 and then you wave the bit of paper saying the first 50 odd thousand are in kms and 30,000 miles magically disappear leaving the buyer very pleased indeed. :D

don't bother checking the maths cos i didn't but you get the idea :D

cheers for the replies guys, glad to see I'm not going totally mad :freak3: and good to know my thinking was right for a change :D. I certainly won't be buying a car off that particular garage, best not name any names I spose but if you really wanna know PM me :norty: