Odometer Tampering
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