# Dodge Dart Odometer jumps 2,000 miles?

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/dodge-dart-odometer-jumps-2-000-miles/46998>\
**Category:** The Show\
**Created:** [April 5, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/dodge-dart-odometer-jumps-2-000-miles/46998 "2010-04-05T19:21:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![bliddel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/34f0e0/32.png) [@bliddel](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bliddel)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/dodge-dart-odometer-jumps-2-000-miles/46998/1 "2010-04-05T19:21:50Z")

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On April 3, a lady caller was distressed because the 500 mile warranty on a used Dodge Dart had mysteriously expired during a week away. She thought her son was lying about having driven 2,000 miles during the week.  
  
  
  
 I believe the son. My first car was a 1972 Chevy Vega, purchased used in 1974 with just under 15,000 on the odometer. A little over 5,000 miles later, it suddenly jumped to 30,000, not 20,000. It was painfully obvious to me that I was a victim of a used car dealer who had rolled-back the odometer. It is illegal, but it still happens.  
  
  
  
 I don’t convict people of lying until there is no longer any reasonable doubt.

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**Author:** ![ZombieWoof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/91b2a8/32.png) [@ZombieWoof](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ZombieWoof)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 2:21pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/dodge-dart-odometer-jumps-2-000-miles/46998/2 "2010-04-09T14:21:03Z")

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Apparently the guys just chose not to do the math. The kid would have had to do quite a bit of driving to put on 2,000 miles in a week. It’s certainly doable, but what would be the payoff?

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**Author:** ![dadalope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@dadalope](https://community.cartalk.com/u/dadalope)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2010, 5:36am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/dodge-dart-odometer-jumps-2-000-miles/46998/3 "2010-04-15T05:36:12Z")

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Zombie’s got a good point. It’d take your son about 40 hr. of driving to go that far – pretty hard to fit into a week while keeping up with Facebook.

Here’s another kind of odometer you might get a look at: gas money. Guessing about 15-20 mpg, it’d take $300-350 worth of gas. That could be noticeable, depending on what kind of job he has.

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**Author:** ![princecasanova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9de053/32.png) [@princecasanova](https://community.cartalk.com/u/princecasanova)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 3:06am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/dodge-dart-odometer-jumps-2-000-miles/46998/4 "2011-04-19T03:06:42Z")

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There are dome Dodge Dart models that has been included in the [_Dodge recalls_](http://www.automd.com/recall/dodge_m/) due to the odometer faulty configurations. This is a major problem indeed bec. it tracks the kms spent by the car since it was purchased. Hope this can help others for the news.