Equipment such as garden tractors, minidiggers, and so on, is often fitted with electronic hours counters these days.
How difficult are they to reset? I'm not about to move into a new field of crime: quite the opposite. I want to know whether, if I buy a secondhand machine, the counter could have been reset trivially easily, e.g. by disconnecting the machine's battery, or flipping a coin cell out of the counter? Or would it have needed real criminal intent?