Selling "clocked" cars

[eyeSpy]

A report in todays Irish Times suggests that a Galway firm has given an undertaking to the Consumer Agency that they will not sell "clocked" cars and that they are compensating 3 customers----------------Ithought this was a criminal offence and wonder why the agency so beloved of Brian Cowan did not apparently inform the Gardai.

My experience of the NCA is that it is a vanity, a talking shop with no teeth and a waste of time. Good idea, but crap implementation. I have had good reason to have issue with them due to dubious business practices on behalf of a gym - they kept taking the direct debit money out of my bank account, despite me adhering to the the letter of their contract and cancelling my membership, via registered post and email well in advance of the timescale required, yet they kept debiting the account. However, when I rang the NCA they really werent interested in helping, the best they could do was ask me was I in line with their terms and conditions, which I was. After that, they didnt really do much, bar ignore my mails. Got it sorted myself in the end, so they fukkk off with themselves as far as I am concerned.

My friend e-mailed and sent numerous letters to the NCA, regarding the same practice being carried out by a certain cable company. He never got a reply to any of them. So he then sent a letter to the NCA complaining about the NCA. They are useless.

Can you not just cancel the direct debit? I can do it online with my bank with one click.

[scruff]

Friend tells me that this case in Galway is particularly embarrassing for the PD's. Can someone confirm this, as she clammed up when I suggested it should be posted here ?

[Bobert]

Yes, I'm familiar with the garage in question. Shower of ************************s!

[ManOfReason]

The practice has died off a bit since the introduction of the NCT. Once a car is three years old the milage is recorded and it become easy to see if somethig funny is going on. On one and two year old cars all bets are off.

From what I heard on the radio this week the NCT "record but do not publish" the mileage at the time of testing. Only in Ireland would such information be kept from the public.

[mairteenpak]

It is in the interests of the state to prop up the second hand car market. High second hand car prices maintain high new car prices and volume and in turn maintains revenue.

Forget about having a public record of NCT recorded mileages.

[CookieMonster]

So he then sent a letter to the NCA complaining about the NCA.

Ho ho! We should all do that.

[wysiwyg]

A report in todays Irish Times suggests that a Galway firm has given an undertaking to the Consumer Agency that they will not sell "clocked" cars and that they are compensating 3 customers----------------Ithought this was a criminal offence and wonder why the agency so beloved of Brian Cowan did not apparently inform the Gardai.

My experience of the NCA is that it is a vanity, a talking shop with no teeth and a waste of time. Good idea, but crap implementation. I have had good reason to have issue with them due to dubious business practices on behalf of a gym - they kept taking the direct debit money out of my bank account, despite me adhering to the the letter of their contract and cancelling my membership, via registered post and email well in advance of the timescale required, yet they kept debiting the account. However, when I rang the NCA they really werent interested in helping, the best they could do was ask me was I in line with their terms and conditions, which I was. After that, they didnt really do much, bar ignore my mails. Got it sorted myself in the end, so they fukkk off with themselves as far as I am concerned.

Why didn't you do what I did.. and go into the bank and sign a letter telling them not to pay any more money to the gym.. worked for me

And.. you get the satisfaction of them trying to ring you askign wtf is going on with the direct debit, instead of you ringing them

[QuestionsQuigley]

There is a simple way to stop this, record the mileage of every car when they they do their NCT test and put it on a national database. With imported cars record their mileage entering the country. The cars could still be clocked but it wouldn't be as easy to do it though.