Need opinions! Has this odometer been rolled back?

the_kg · 2009-11-16T18:29:36+00:00

First of all, hello. I hope to become a regular member of this forum soon :) My wife and I are shopping for a 4Runner and came across this one: http://www.autobase.com/cgi/info.exe?bc=4380607&dealer=leblancn It looks like a decent deal (though I hope to still be able to talk them down) and I got excited, until I saw the Carfax report So what do you think? Is it likely that 40,000 was legit, and the owner really did go from 7k miles in the first year to 34k miles in the second year? Did the inspection station make a typo? Did the owner do a rollback (is it even easy for an individual to do)? Or did the dealership do a rollback? We plan to go look at it tonight. I read that I should check the wear on the gas/brake pedals, as well as check for the original tires. Is there anything else I should look for to tell if it really has 40k+ miles instead of 19k? What brand/style/etc are the original tires for this vehicle? Any and all advice is welcome.

Thread starter the_kg
Start date Nov 16, 2009

Ed Rooney

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Nov 18, 2009

Considering it was at an emissions station, I imagine it was the result of the owner pulling up, the tech saying "how many miles on the truck?", the owner replying "14,905" in mangled cajun-english, and the tech hearing "40,905".