WARNING to Used Car Buyers RE: Mileage

[Anonymous]

USED CAR BUYERS BEWARE: Yesterday, I saw a report on national TV news (CBS or ABC) about widespread availability of a device that can alter the mileage on a car with a digital odometer. The change leaves no trail. Only takes seconds. The device used to sell for $10,000, but is now widely available on the internet for just $300.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:USED CAR BUYERS BEWARE: Yesterday, I saw a report on national TV news (CBS or ABC) about widespread availability of a device that can alter the mileage on a car with a digital odometer. The change leaves no trail. Only takes seconds. The device used to sell for $10,000, but is now widely available on the internet for just $300.

this is nothing new.... buying a used car has always been and will be caveat emptor... and it has been and always will be illegal to roll back the odometer with the intent to defraud. It has been and always will be ways to determine if its happened.

[Anonymous]

Ferris bueller.

[Anonymous]

Look at the car fax report.

Will tell you the mileage at different service intervals.

Example.

Service 1 - 6/5/20. 12k
Service 2- 3/3/21. 24k
Service 3- 8/1/22. 39k

And now you are looking to buy the car. If it shows anything under 39k, you know it’s been tampered with.

Even if car had lets say 48k on it right now, you could not roll it back past 42k without raising a red flag. You definitely can’t roll it to like 15k….

So you are somewhat protected .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:USED CAR BUYERS BEWARE: Yesterday, I saw a report on national TV news (CBS or ABC) about widespread availability of a device that can alter the mileage on a car with a digital odometer. The change leaves no trail. Only takes seconds. The device used to sell for $10,000, but is now widely available on the internet for just $300.

this is nothing new.... buying a used car has always been and will be caveat emptor... and it has been and always will be illegal to roll back the odometer with the intent to defraud. It has been and always will be ways to determine if its happened.

It is fairly new for digital odometers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look at the car fax report.

Will tell you the mileage at different service intervals.

Example.

Service 1 - 6/5/20. 12k
Service 2- 3/3/21. 24k
Service 3- 8/1/22. 39k

And now you are looking to buy the car. If it shows anything under 39k, you know it’s been tampered with.

Even if car had lets say 48k on it right now, you could not roll it back past 42k without raising a red flag. You definitely can’t roll it to like 15k….

So you are somewhat protected .

Is this something available to everyone?

[Anonymous]

Yeah, you can buy one for like 29$. Every car can be looked up.


Some of the used car sites like cars.com even include the reports in the listings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:USED CAR BUYERS BEWARE: Yesterday, I saw a report on national TV news (CBS or ABC) about widespread availability of a device that can alter the mileage on a car with a digital odometer. The change leaves no trail. Only takes seconds. The device used to sell for $10,000, but is now widely available on the internet for just $300.

this is nothing new.... buying a used car has always been and will be caveat emptor... and it has been and always will be illegal to roll back the odometer with the intent to defraud. It has been and always will be ways to determine if its happened.

It is fairly new for digital odometers.

its not new. its just gotten cheaper...

I had an engine tuning software for one of my cars. digital odometer. could rollback mileage.

another option would be to buy a new gauge cluster with lower miles from a wrecked car SOME, not all gauge clusters store the mileage separate from the body control/engine control modules.