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A mileage and its history

A mileage and its history
A crooked twist?

Could it be that a professional used dealer has manipulated a mileage here? Even the trader himself expressed this thought, but denied any guilt. Turning back is easy, says the ADAC. Don’t prove.

Michael Schumann

03/23/2018

It was pure coincidence that MOTORRAD came across the former Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R from Hans Bader * from Celle while researching used motorcycles. The fact that this very well-maintained Kawasaki, built in 2008, with the LeoVince retrofit silencer and the small – but later clearly recognizable on the photos on the website of a Dutch used dealer – Macke in this silencer was well known to the editors can be even greater Coincidence apply. Only the mileage made suspicious: 16095. Offers for 6950 euros. And astonishingly already with a new, now Dutch registration: yellow license plate 05-MJ-FP.

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So MOTORRAD picked up the phone: “Hey Hans, did you sell your Kawa to Holland and turned back the speedometer when you got the opportunity?” Bader, a trained car mechanic from Lower Saxony, was amazed. It is true that he actually sold the super sports car in the fall. But then, as the photos taken by Bader just before the sale show, the mileage was still just under 42,000 – absolutely realistic for a recreational rider and a nine-year-old motorcycle.

A used motorcycle dealer from the Netherlands, reports Bader, contacted him in the autumn in response to his sales advertisement in a well-known online portal and expressed interest in the Kawa. Shortly afterwards the man came to see Celle. “That was a professional,” says Bader. “He was traveling with a van full of motorbikes, just came back from a shopping trip from Poland and took my Kawasaki with him on the way home to the Netherlands. But I can’t complain about the man, he immediately and without hesitation paid 4950 euros in cash, took his motorcycle and papers with him – the case was settled for me, ”says Bader. At least until he became aware of the Dutch sales advertisement through MOTORRAD. No doubt, that was his Kawa, offered for exactly 2,000 euros more, but with a good 25,000 kilometers less on the clock. Who shouldn’t think that the mileage of the green thousands in the Netherlands had been manipulated, especially since turning back a digital speedometer with the devices freely available for it is child’s play, as the ADAC confirms. After the admission to a Dutchman and without a service booklet, which is ultimately very easy to dispose of, no buyer can understand that the ZX-10R actually has almost three times the advertised mileage.

It was immediately clear to the dealer Jan Hunter * when MOTORRAD confronted him with these facts: No, no, not that you think “that we did this on purpose in order to have a speedometer advantage”, he let the editorial staff by Know email. His explanation for the incorrect mileage in the sales advertisement on www.huntermotoren.nl * was very simple: “We had eleven or twelve ZX-10Rs last year. I think eight of them were green. My colleague must have mixed up something and uploaded the wrong picture. ”So a mix-up, a mistake, regrettable …

On the same day, Hans Bader’s Kawasaki had disappeared from the Dutch company’s range of around 280 motorcycles from various brands. Allegedly, according to the dealer, it was already sold at this point.

A request from MOTORRAD to the police on this subject did not provide much illuminating information. At least the LKA Lower Saxony was not aware that the subject of odometer manipulation in motorcycles, unlike in the automotive sector, was a problem in Germany, said a spokeswoman. Need for action in a specific case? None, after all, there is no known injured party.

It remains to be noted where you end up when you google the word “speedometer adjustment”. With providers in Holland.

Interview – “Ban will bring little”

Christian Buric, ADAC press spokesman: Odometer manipulation is easy. According to the association, only motorcycle manufacturers could effectively prevent them.

ADAC experts have shown on cars how easily odometer readings can be manipulated by digital speedometers. This criminal plug and play is just as easy with motorcycles?

In principle, yes. But it is not manipulated via the (mostly not yet available) OBD socket, but often directly on the speedometer board. Service providers who take on this kind of thing are easy to find on the Internet.

In the case of used cars, the ADAC estimates the proportion of vehicles with a manipulated odometer reading at a third. With around 7.3 million owner changes in 2017, that would be around 2.4 million manipulated cars last year alone. Estimate the ratio for motorcycles as high?

The third of manipulated used cars mentioned is based on investigations by the police. We have no data for motorcycles.

Odometer manipulation devices are legally available. Does the ADAC see a need for action on the part of the legislature in order to effectively protect buyers from fraud in the future?

A ban on devices is of little use in times of international trade. If cars and motorcycles could not be manipulated as quickly, mostly without leaving a trace, easily and cheaply as they are today, there would be no market. That is where we have to start.

What are the benefits of mileage databases such as in Belgium and Holland?

They only pretend to solve a problem: Nobody can check whether the odometer readings stored there are actually correct. The ADAC detected the first case of odometer fraud three years ago despite an entry in a mileage database.

In conclusion: What tips does the ADAC give used motorcycle buyers to protect themselves from manipulated km readings??

Check all documents for the motorcycle carefully: service booklet, HU test certificates, repair and inspection invoices for plausible mileage. If a maintenance booklet is missing, it is better to take another offer. And if necessary check whether the speedometer has already been opened, this could be an indication of tampering. A technical proof of a manipulation is usually not possible or only with great difficulty.

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