Clocking dealer fined €1,200

Last December the National Consumer Agency released news of a conviction they had secured against a Galway trader for the sale of a clocked car, writes Shane Teskey of Motorcheck.ie. At the time the NCA sought and was granted an adjournment to enable the defendant Mr Tabachuk to repay €4,000 to the consumer which has since been done.

In a sitting of Galway Distric Court yesterday Judge Mary Fahy described the act of clocking as 'a serious offense which merited a large fine'. Mr Tabachuk was fined €1,200 (the maximum allowable at district court level) and ordered that the €4,000 originally paid for the car be returned to the buyer.

As previously highlighted by Motorcheck on the RTE News, car clocking remains a serious problem for Irish and UK car buyers, but our Irish National Mileage Register now has over 4.6 million car readings making it one of the most powerful tool available to Irish traders in identifying a clocked car.