For 20 years +/- we have always purchased pre-leased cars with low mileage and in almost new car condition. In May 2009 we purchased a 2006 VW Jetta 2.5 standard 6 speed pre-lease with 34K on it. Unfortunately we got hit head-on in Bangor, Maine last December 4th which totalled that car. Once the…

Exactly what “things” did your son mention? It seems to be human nature for people to try to find something to demonstrate their knowledge, especialy young adults to their parents. They’re subcosciously stll struggling for respect as an adult. I recently dealt with this myself. I helped a close fr…

Check with carfax and your local VW dealer. Print out the car’s service history and compare the mileages recorded with the dates of service. It’s not as easy to roll back a digital odometer as many people think. There is no “odometer chip” on a circuit board – odometer functionality is spread throu…

I am curious, didn’t you have your mechanic check out this used car before you bought it? What was your mechanic’s opinion about the car?

Thanks for the reply. However, my son is 50 years old and not some “young adult” and has been with the dealership for many years. He has never criticized any other pre-leased vehicle that we’ve bought or tried to sell us one from where he works. He is in California and we’re in Maine. Anyhow, he…

I have seen on a Brit TV show that a laptop was used to roll back an odometer with the appropriate program and connector, so it is possible. Easy? I don’t know.

I did a CarFax prior to purchase and all looked Kosher. However, CarFax is only as accurate as the data submitted to it. For instance, I have a 1999 Dodge Pickup with 149K on it but CarFax only shows data three owners back at 57K. Also, if you go to this link; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syxYj…

We bought the car, as we have three other pre-leased ones, from a more than highly reputable dealership so we didn’t have any mechanic check it out. No need since this dealership would not dare sell one if they know it was a rollback. We know them very well. However, shortly after purchase, the c…

It’s not just one board, but spread throughout many circuit boards on a car. It would be more expensive to replace all boards than any savings in rolled back miles. Twotone

I don’t care if I am buying a car from my mother, I would still get it checked out by my mechanic. Even the most reputable dealerships can miss something when they do their inspection.

Digital Odometer Rollback

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Another way to do it would be to get a donor board from another car’s odometer and swap it with yours. So if you have a wrecked car with 10,000 miles on it, and swap it into a 90,000 mile car, suddenly the old car is new again.

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