Not so with older cars. It used to be you could remove the speedometer cable and attach it to a drill to run it backwards. That was fixed but then people would just detach the cable for long trips or just in general until they sold the car. Then they put tamper resistant tape on the cable ends and that was harder to defeat but a potential buyer doesn't always know to check. All of these activities are a federal offense, but enforcement is not consistent.
Now if you detach your speedometer your transmission won't shift in half the cars out there... so with a modern car I'd say it's virtually tamper proof. sean On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Ed Blackmond <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Feb 2013, tomw wrote: > >> ... The same group of folks also feeds paranoia >> about having a miles-tracking device in the car, but such a device doesn't >> need to record location, just cumulative miles, and could easily be made >> quite tamper-proof. > > Odometers have been required in cars since before I was born, and they are > quite tamperproof. > > Ed > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > -- Sean Korb [email protected] http://www.spkorb.org '65,'68 Mustangs,'68 Cougar,'78 R100/7,'60 Metro,'59 A35,'71 Pantera #1382 "The more you drive, the less intelligent you get" --Miller "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -P. Picasso _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
