Showing posts with label Illegal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Illegal. Show all posts

Tuesday, 18 October 2011

Odometer wound back?

I often come across people who can't tell if the mileage on a car is genuine. The odometer reading can either be in analogue or digital. This usually involves cars which are more than 3 years old with very low mileage recorded on them.

That being said, I have sold a car with low mileage myself and own a car which travels only 5,000km (3000 miles) a year.

It is a sad fact that some sellers will alter and tamper with the odometer or swap instrument clusters to obtain a lower reading so as to get a higher sale price. This practice is illegal but I will inform you of a method I use to determine how genuine the mileage on a car is, it doesn't matter how old the car.