greg yoder
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how would you track the real truth on the 1997 milage???it shows in Ky with that on the title???
if a car is listed below 50k miles and you do a search, and find in 1997 it was listed at 131,000 on the title how can u find out the real stor
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Here's just two possible causes. First is the used car lot roll back of the odometer. (see the video in my post above) That used to be really common. The second reason is a 5 digit odometer that doesn't show the one hundred thousand digit and whoever is selling or sold the car isn't going to be bothered reporting the extra 100K.
Rustyrodknocker
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Could have been a typo in the 90's if it was a low miles car with 31k not 131k. But you never know.
The cars that realize additional value due to low mileage have a history attached.
People most certainly rolled odometers to lower settings. They simply rolled them forward. Easy. My father inlaw said he found a setup in the early 70's when he was doing body shop labor at a dealer.
They had him cleaning out **** from the loft that been up there decades and he found an electric motor with a speedometer cable on it. They simply reached under the dash and unplugged the cable and plug in the electric cable. Run for 6 minutes and record change at given speed and multiply x 10. There is change per hours calculate total hours and leave it in the back of the shop until time elapsed. Probably get 2400 miles a day with no damage to odometer maybe more.
Could easily go from 90k to 40k in just a few weeks.
Just leave one in the back all the time it's doing work while you top off differentials with sawdust and patch rust holes with screen doors..
The speedo could have been replaced as well. You have a noisy one and you pick up a good used one and swap it out.
Chrysler odometers have a feature where the numbers no longer line up after roll over.
Richard Ehrenberg from Mopar Action stated that in an article many years ago, I use it and I have found it a useful bit of info.
Also general condition of the car will help guide you.
Richard Ehrenberg from Mopar Action stated that in an article many years ago, I use it and I have found it a useful bit of info.
Also general condition of the car will help guide you.
We aren't going to take this thread down that road.
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