Unfinished business
NICK GIBBS
Yes, even a digital odometer can be tampered with
THE OTHER DAY, a taxi driver openly admitted to me that he had halved the mileage on his Mercedes E-Class PHEV to about 100,000. He ‘clocks’ it annually so as not to trigger any warning flags come MOT test time.
Taxi drivers might be the biggest culprits of clocking, because across Europe the E-Class had on average the highest number of erased kilometres in 2024 – 130,680 (81,200 miles) – according to data from vehicle history checking firm CarVertical.