Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town on 2015-11-10.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have considered making illegal all odometer adjustment, and enforcing an outright ban on (1) the sale and purchase of odometer adjustment equipment, and (2) companies offering those services.

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

I deplore the practice of mileage fraud.

Odometers do go wrong and may be replaced, so there are occasions when adjustment of the odometer is legitimate. To help, consumers mileage is recorded at every MOT test and is available on the certificate and online. Although odometer adjustment is not currently unlawful, the misrepresentation of true mileage to a potential purchaser is illegal under consumer protection legislation.