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Old 02-15-2020, 01:49 AM #76
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Agree with checking but also either get under the vehicle yourself or get it up on a lift and checked out. I used Vincheck(dot)info which is free so might not cover as well but it caught over half the rollbacks and is free for 50? checks. More if you use multiple browsers. The rest looked good on autocheck but we're obviously just not reported.

I got lucky and a mechanic in the town where I bought mine gave a free checkup and I was able to look at everything on the lift. Allowed me to get the price knocked down over a grand to cover maintenance. Couldn't believe the guy wouldn't take money for the checkup saying he just wants to make sure nobody buys a bad vehicle.

I also looked at a pilot..I couldn't figure out why it was half the price of a runner and after looking online for reasons it might be, it was sold when I called back. Was 5k for a 2008 with just over 100k
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Does Carfax work well?
With mileage histories during registrations?
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Toyota is different, same goes for Lexus, very little to no depreciation IF the vehicle was maintained/cared for and you have all the service records & receipts. Best Re-sell value of all makers
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Just recently went to see a private sale 3rd gen '00 SR5 on 33's really nice, but needed some work. Odometer read 121k. Seller was honest enough to tell me the car fax most recent entry had the vehicle at 260k. That was the deal breaker for me.
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I know this is an old thread but just general info on changing odometers nowadays:

-Tools to change odometers for all makes/models/years of vehicles are very cheap nowadays. The more difficult ones to change are EU vehicles, especially BMW and Mercedes, but even those are quite possible.

-Odometer can be changed in almost all vehicles (especially Japanese and USA brand vehicles) without leaving any evidence that it has been changed.

Due to this, it is up to the buyer to get service records and verify them. If the records do not show a consistently progressing mileage vs. time, the vehicle is suspect. If there is a large gap in service history, the vehicle is suspect.

Nearly 100% of sellers with that low mileage vehicle claiming that "it sat in some old lady's garage for the last 10 years" IMO is trying to sell you a vehicle with the odometer rolled back. I am in the Detroit area and this practice is incredibly common here, especially among non, *ahem*, American sellers.

I would strongly recommend that no one pay a higher price for a lower mileage vehicle from any seller, dealer or otherwise, if you can not positively verify as I have mentioned above. This odometer fraud is far more common than any of the related news articles have claimed, there are entire forums dedicated to automotive tuning/module hacking and there are dozens of people a day posting memory dumps from modules asking for the mileage to be changed to some low number. These are just the people who aren't willing to spend a little extra money to do the odometer change all by themselves.

That's my two cents. I had no idea how easy it was to change an odometer until I swapped an upgraded dash cluster in a 2010's EU car and then realized that one of the chinese tools I had contained a menu option to change the mileage.... Enter new mileage->Write->Done. I could have set it to a lower number, cleared any codes in any modules that referenced what mileage the code was set at, and any evidence that I had changed the odometer would have been gone. The modules in some newer high end cars (such as infotainment modules) have what is more or less a "hidden odometer" and people have figured out how to change even those!!!
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