Cars being ‘clocked’ twice before sale in new scam

Motorists are being warned about a new scam in which sellers, often in Britain, are “clocking” or reducing the mileage on cars twice before they sell them on here.

The AA says that, on the back of a 47% year-on-year increase in the number of vehicles being brought here from Britain, there has been an increase in “mileage discrepancies” among those vehicles.

“In 2015, research from Cartell.ie indicated that 14.5% of UK cars imported into Ireland had had their mileage altered in some way,” an AA spokesman said.