# Odometer Rollback in Costa Rica? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [January 21, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/odometer-rollback-in-costa-rica/70554 "2012-01-21T02:54:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GoingLikeSixty](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/goinglikesixty/32/3173_2.png) [@GoingLikeSixty](https://community.cartalk.com/u/GoingLikeSixty)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/odometer-rollback-in-costa-rica/70554/1 "2012-01-21T02:54:56Z")
Conventional wisdom in Costa Rica is that ALL dealers roll back the odometers. I’ve checked the archives and read the responses about odometer rollback and am still unconvinced that a small used car dealer (10 cars on the lot) in Costa Rica would be able to roll back the odometer. BTW: Cars sold via dealers come with government mandated 30 day warranty on engine and drive train. FWIW. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 3:04am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/odometer-rollback-in-costa-rica/70554/2 "2012-01-21T03:04:00Z")
Newer cars can be rolled back with a laptop, so probably somebody could go dealer to dealer, offering up his ‘services’. ---
**Author:** ![Caddyman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/caddyman/32/23_2.png) [@Caddyman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Caddyman)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 5:46am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/odometer-rollback-in-costa-rica/70554/3 "2012-01-21T05:46:04Z")
It’s very difficult to accumulate high mileage in Costa Rica…There are not that many paved roads…Rental cars might be the exception…Odometer fraud is by no means limited to Costa Rica… ---
**Author:** ![littlemouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@littlemouse](https://community.cartalk.com/u/littlemouse)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/odometer-rollback-in-costa-rica/70554/4 "2012-01-21T16:12:57Z")
Very few of the cars in Costa Rica actually come from Costa Rica. ---
**Author:** ![Caddyman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/caddyman/32/23_2.png) [@Caddyman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Caddyman)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 7:41am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/odometer-rollback-in-costa-rica/70554/5 "2012-01-22T07:41:01Z")
True…Every single one is imported and has paid a VERY high import duty… ---
**Author:** ![littlemouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@littlemouse](https://community.cartalk.com/u/littlemouse)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/odometer-rollback-in-costa-rica/70554/6 "2012-01-22T13:07:09Z")
And accumulated miles elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![GSragtop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7c8e57/32.png) [@GSragtop](https://community.cartalk.com/u/GSragtop)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/odometer-rollback-in-costa-rica/70554/7 "2012-01-22T18:42:15Z")
If it’s a USA car you can run a carfax on it and see what the last mileage was before it left the states. ---
**Author:** ![Caddyman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/caddyman/32/23_2.png) [@Caddyman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Caddyman)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/odometer-rollback-in-costa-rica/70554/8 "2012-01-23T23:09:36Z")
Carfax depends on state inspection records for it’s mileage numbers. Only about half the cars in the U.S. are subject to state inspections… Besides, today, car dealers have learned that used car buyers are willing to pay astounding amounts of money for high-mileage cars! ---
**Author:** ![GoingLikeSixty](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/goinglikesixty/32/3173_2.png) [@GoingLikeSixty](https://community.cartalk.com/u/GoingLikeSixty)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/odometer-rollback-in-costa-rica/70554/9 "2012-01-27T20:15:53Z")
Caddyman: Been a while since you’ve been to Costa Rica? There more “paved” roads by far than dirt/gravel. OTOH, paved means a slalom course of potholes. There even is a multilane toll road from San Jose to the Pacific. So I guess the consensus is that “yes” odometer fraud is possible/probable in Costa Rica? Just doesn’t seem like a shade tree mechanic’s operation… but the idea of a “service” is a good one. One I shall explore with exuberance. 🙂