Reported millage versus real millage
11-02-2006, 04:15 PM
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Reported millage versus real millage
Hi Guys:
Checking the millage on cars for sale noticed that the sales ad shows the same millage as the millage on the carfax/autocheck report but the funny thing is that the millage is for several years before tha actual date the ad was posted.
I think that the actuall millage should be the one the odometer shows at the posting of the ad not the one reported several years before.
Checking the millage on cars for sale noticed that the sales ad shows the same millage as the millage on the carfax/autocheck report but the funny thing is that the millage is for several years before tha actual date the ad was posted.
I think that the actuall millage should be the one the odometer shows at the posting of the ad not the one reported several years before.
11-02-2006, 05:01 PM
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There needs to be a reasonable paper trail, and the odo needs to work. These cars are kind of strange in that one owner may drive 20k miles per year for 3 yrs, the next owner 3k miles per year for 1 yr, and the odo may have broken after 1 yr of previous ownership, then fixed by the next owner and sold as correct mileage. This example would be 40k miles off! I think this is a bigger problem than odo rollback on these cars. If the condition of the car, paperwork, ppi don't jive, back away.
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