Shady Odometer Records... Input?

[Dathaeus]

Ok I am no expert but this looks weird... seller told me there is 125k miles, but I did a VIN check and saw this:

09-09-2004 2 mi
11-08-2006 16,246 mi
08-15-2013 224,666 mi
02-25-2016 270,528 mi
05-11-2016 EXEMPT

What is exempt?

And thats some usage from 2006-2013.

Too suspect or just a technical glitch?

[fredo]

In Texas, cars older than 10 years are EXEMPT to report mileage on a new title.

[az3579]

It's kind of weird because on my title, it says "exceeds mechanical limits" for the odometer reading, which is extremely unlikely considering it's digital and has 6 digits. It seems that states have different ways of dealing with older cars and their titles.

Regarding usage; this is totally possible. I put about 194k on my car in the nearly 6 years I've owned it. The thing I'd be worried about is what the seller is reporting versus what's on the odometer statements. You can usually tell when a car has 270k on it versus 125k; the differences should be night and day.

[KTS317]

Post a picture of the gauge cluster? Maybe it's possible they did a cluster swap from a lower mileage car and it still has the tamper dot on?


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[Dathaeus]

Post a picture of the gauge cluster? Maybe it's possible they did a cluster swap from a lower mileage car and it still has the tamper dot on?


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Where is the tamper dot... I do see a dot just to left of the temporary trip odometer, not sure if that's normal.

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[KTS317]

It means that the gauge cluster and the computer have different mileage recorded.


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[Dathaeus]

It means that the gauge cluster and the computer have different mileage recorded.


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Yes it's there for me between the "mileage" and the trip meter number, sigh, WTF, I sincerely hope this dealer is just that stupid and didn't know, gonna make me travel 200 miles on a lie. Funny thing is the car overall in no way looks like a 250k mile car, so weird.... I doubt the previous owner would have replaced the seats, steering wheel, shift knob, paint etc etc.....

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[KTS317]

Do you have a link to the car? Maybe for some reason the computer was replaced?? I think it's the EWS? Not sure how all of that works


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[Dathaeus]

Do you have a link to the car? Maybe for some reason the computer was replaced?? I think it's the EWS? Not sure how all of that works


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I don't see where you can see that info you need from the listing
http://www.carstradecenter.com/mobile/view/1562

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[fredo]

Price is good. But the SES light is on.