STEVEN COOL
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Old Tires Look Like New
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Old Tires Look Like New
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Lizzard
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Can the bmw's from 2002 up's odometers be set back, didn't know that?
Have a question: why would my friends E46 have the actual and software kilometers be slightly different? out by like say 50 - 80km. Rheingold says example 120520 and the car itself displays 120607. Is this what you are referring to when saying they can manipulate the odometer reading
Have a question: why would my friends E46 have the actual and software kilometers be slightly different? out by like say 50 - 80km. Rheingold says example 120520 and the car itself displays 120607. Is this what you are referring to when saying they can manipulate the odometer reading
Ralf*
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Steven@siautoandaccessories said:
this is still proffesionally done
the local taxi rank uses uses the disposed carcasses, and uses a hot steel wire, from a coat hangar, to melt into the rubber, to create deeper grooves, and it is very obvious when you look close.
and, no wonder so many taxi's have blow-outs etc
I sometimes wonder whether I should permanently damage the sidewalls of the discarded tyres, so that they cannot find their way across the street to the taxi rank, and re-grooved with a hot wire, for re-use
ChefDJ
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Lizzard said:
50 to 80km is nothing. I would go as far to say it's acceptable. Like a speedometer being out by 2 to 8km/h for example.
Manipulating the odometer refers to second hand dealers or salesmen turning the clocks back anywhere from 10 000 up to and over 150 000km (from what I have seen) in order to sell the vehicle with "low mileage". Highly illegal actually.
Philip Foglar
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This is done locally too - have seen something like this on TV or somewhere showing our locals doing the same thing. :thumbdo:
