Clustermods

Odometer Tampering is a serious crime.

We do not condone Odometer Tampering(Winding Back of Odometers).  We will only alter the odometer value of a cluster with sufficient evidence of your current odometer value.  This includes dated pictures with completed and signed Statutory Declarations.

Here is an extract of the Motor Car Traders Act 1986 

 

38 Odometer tampering 

(1) A person must not— 

 (a) tamper with any instrument or device in a 

motor car for the recording of distance 

travelled by a motor car; or 

 (b) install in substitution for an instrument or 

device in a motor car for recording the 

distance travelled by the motor car another 

instrument or device for recording the 

distance travelled by the motor car. 

Penalty: In the case of a natural person—

240 penalty units or imprisonment for 

2 years or both. 

In the case of a body corporate—

1000 penalty units.  

(2) If it is proved that any instrument or device in a 

motor car for recording the distance travelled by 

the motor car has been tampered with or 

substituted whilst the motor car has been on the 

premises of a motor car trader or in the 

possession, custody or control of a motor car 

trader, the tampering or substitution shall be 

deemed to have been done by or on behalf of the 

motor car trader. 

(3) It is a defence to a prosecution under 

subsection (1) for the person charged to prove that 

the tampering or substitution was not done with 

intent to deceive by or on behalf of the person 

charged. 

 (4) A person must not, in the course of selling or 

exchanging a motor car, falsely represent the 

accuracy of an odometer reading of the car. 

Penalty: In the case of a natural person, 

100 penalty units. 

In the case of a body corporate, 

500 penalty units