My car seems too worn for the logged mileage. Has it been clocked?

I bought a 2016 DS3 a year ago with only 12,000 miles on the clock. As a fella who has been around cars all his life, a couple of things about the mileage bothered me, but my wife had fallen in love with it so I bought it. Simple things like a hole worn in the driver's carpet and heavy wear on the bottom corner of the brake pedal. We have since done 13,000 miles more and the wear hasn't got any worse. The carpet was changed immediately, but it was far too obvious to pass a pre-delivery inspection. We live in London and the car was first registered in Leeds - owned by DS. Any ideas how I can find out about it?

Asked on 29 January 2021 by TONY MARSHALL

Answered by Andrew Brady
Car clocking is very common these days because of the popularity of lease and finance deals with mileage limits. You'll struggle to know for sure if the clocking was done before its first MoT test. A dealer might be able to check the ECU to see if the mileage has been tampered with.
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