# Fishy odometer

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/fishy-odometer/49157>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** chevrolet, cavalier\
**Created:** [May 21, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/fishy-odometer/49157 "2010-05-21T18:56:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![abzgutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@abzgutz](https://community.cartalk.com/u/abzgutz)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/fishy-odometer/49157/1 "2010-05-21T18:56:25Z")

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My starter stopped working about a month ago and i went to a junkyard to save some cash and get a used one. i did the repair myself and my first attempt ended in failure. I wired the starter wrong and it burned out. I got a new one and it all went well. my problem is that before i changed starter my odometer read ~87000 miles. after the repair, within a few days, it read 102000+. what happened here? i’m the cars second owner but i haven’t done a carfax yet to see if the odometer had been changed.