One of the many factors that determine a car’s value is the number of kilometres it has on the speedometer. It is a general rule that the greater the kilometres a car has displayed on the speedometer, the greater will be the fall in its value. In many cases, this is in fact true. A car is a wonderful machine that consists of hundreds of thousands of parts, each having a specific number of years’ worth of life in them. More miles driven means more wear and tear for each of those parts. Naturally, fixing or replacing parts that are past their prime costs money, which is why buyers will offer lower values of money for a car with a higher reading on the speedometer.
But what the number of kilometres does not actually reflect is the way a car has been driven. Consider a car that was bought new and driven 10,000 kilometres in a year. However the owner never changed the oil, did not maintain the coolant levels, drove into every pothole he or she could find, and not once took it for regular maintenance. On the other hand, a similar car acquired five years ago was maintained to the T and pampered like a child while it clocked 100,000 kilometres. Which one do you think should be worth more?
Mileage blockers
This unfair reliance on mileage alone is what makes many careful owners disappointed over an unjustified drop in their car’s value. But the solution to the worries of such car owners has been delivered in the form of mileage blockers. Mileage blockers are devices that are designed to limit the mileage of a vehicle by either slowing or limiting the counting of the miles driven.
How mileage blockers work
Once the mileage blocker is installed, it interrupts the signals that are sent from the vehicle’s sensors in the wheels and speedometer to its engine control unit (ECU). The ECU is the car’s brain and is responsible for maintaining the log of the miles the vehicle has clocked along with every other information. Once installed, the mileage blocker either interrupts or completely blocks the signals so that the ECU does not record at all or records faultily the number of miles that the car has driven.
To calculate the speed as well as the number of miles the car has travelled, sensors gauge the rotation of the wheels and suggest a distance that the vehicle has travelled. Some mileage blockers will alter the signal and indicate to the ECU that the vehicle is traveling at a far slower speed and thus covering a much shorter distance.
Although mileage blockers are illegal in most countries of the world for cars plying public roads they are allowed to test the performance of a vehicle in a controlled environment without incurring the expense of an inflated reading on the speedometer.
Professional mileage blocker services
With a quick search on the internet, you will find many companies that promise the world when it comes to mileage blockers but not everything you find shiny turns out to be gold. Beware of companies that offer only superficial solutions to your needs. If you do your research right, you will discover that most speedometer correction services will focus on altering the display in the instrumental cluster and do not have the expertise to remove the mileage record from the ECU memory. Anyone having the right gadgets will be able to make your car’s ECU return the correct mileage to be displayed on the instrument cluster when needed, putting your effort and money to waste.
What you need is a professional team like the one available at Onyx Performance who understand your concerns and provide a solution tailored to your needs. Onyx has several years of serving premium clients and their fleets of luxury vehicles. They provide bespoke services that limit the damage to your vehicle’s existing wiring and other systems. Their unique plug-and-play mileage blocker needs no soldering, no cutting of cables, and no fiddling with electronic components. What’s more, you can opt for three different modes of limitations for your vehicle. You can have the mileage o up by 10%, or 20% or completely deactivate the mileage blocker to let the car normal per routine.
As explained before, mileage blockers are illegal for on-road vehicles but can be installed in vehicles that are off-road. For detailed consultation about mileage blockers, head over to Onyx Performance and be ready for an experience of a lifetime.