Thursday, August 02, 2018

Did you know odometer tampering is still possible? It's not just a thing done on in the past on older cars.

NHTSA estimates that more than 450,000 vehicles are sold each year with falsified odometer readings

A modern cluster is a complex computerized component, and it can fail. When that happens, it needs to be replaced and the new one made to agree with the rest of the car’s systems.

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/odometer-tampering-a-crime-of-the-past-leaps-into-the-future





2 comments:

  1. Sounds like this guy just replaced the clusters.
    And these M-F's are still in business to this day!!!!
    I can't believe the state didn't pull their dealer's license!!

    https://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/sioux-city-auto-dealer-tampered-with-odometers-on-high-mileage/article_d62d4185-55d6-5e75-9e03-3ddcacc60a09.html

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  2. I bought a used gage cluster for my '06 SSR. The truck had 83k miles and the used cluster 13k miles. I figured the state computer might flag it at inspection so I tried to get it reset to 83k. The closest shop (80 miles) who would do it wanted $300 with me pulling the cluster and bringing it to them. I could understand that price if I'd asked them to set it back from 83k to 13k, but not the other way round.

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