As you are probably more than aware, being a responsible sort of cheap car insurer, there are many unscrupulous individuals out there. And most of them enjoy converging near, in, or around motor dealers, workshops, garages and the like, sniffing out opportunity like a spaniel around the brand of white powder that doesn't really work on blackboards. As certain cheap car insurers have found out at their cost, they'll do anything to make a fast buck, whether it requires removing something crucial, adding something that wasn't there previously, or altering key recorded facts. And they'll do this unbeknownst whilst regaling the ordinary cheap car insurer with jolly tales, ale-tastic matey-ness and general good candour. Thinking throughout interaction, oblivious to your cheap car insuring nouse, what a complete toss you are, and how you'd probably not even notice if you they were to dally with your partner.
Anyhow, clocking is the latest in a long line of tricks of the trade that could make the wrong-doers a small fortune, and as a result, cost you the equivalent of. Needless to say it's been going on for years, round the back, when the shutters are down, and the boss has disappeared. But nowadays, with the advent of technology, downloadable clocking programmes are available for as little as £15. Translating in mileage being as open to interpretation as ever. Manufactured, produced, devised, call it what you want, specifically for 'servicing purposes only' it actually requires very little gumption to tamper with vehicle mileage. Your average tyre-fitter may still not be comfortable reading out loud, but he sure as chickens are turkeys knows how to alter the milometer. Slip-on trainers alas, still being favoured in the workshop though.
Doing one of the few things they're paid handsomely to do in telling the rest of civilisation about such evil, is the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Also known as SMMT. "There are very few legitimate reasons for altering the mileage of a car, and we would urge people to consider what they are doing before they break the law" harrumphed SMMT spkspsn. It's a whole new language isn't it? Acronyms? Like texting, only for people with traceable DNA. In a bid to rid the place of this threat to our pockets, the SMMT *hs cld fr icsd atn on ts ise. And clearer guidelines. Going as far as to propose a compulsory mileage register that could possibly destroy ranks of ruffian's hell bent on getting one over on the law-abiding. "Anything that tightens up the vehicle registration system is in the interests of private buyers and the retail industry," added the representative on behalf of a collection of letters.Quotedetective.com consider themselves quite a mouthful, from a cheap car insurance perspective, as the name doesn't just fall off your tongue. Yet we've avoided shortening it so that it makes little sense. Our actual cheap car insurance of course makes a deal of sense. That's why we attract such a following amongst well-spoken cheap car insurers.
Date - 08/08/2006