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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Impossible! That’s illegal!


2 posted on 12/16/2025 3:44:40 PM PST by for-q-clinton (ui)
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To: for-q-clinton

I am not even sure, ho this can be done?
Old mechanical odometers were pretty easily rolled back. But the new electronics! O have no idea?


5 posted on 12/16/2025 3:48:13 PM PST by AZJeep (sane )
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To: for-q-clinton

I wonder how accurate these stats are.

I would assume that is only on vehicles carfax has info on.
I know none of my cars have had anything reported to carfax since I have owned them.

I could easily roll back the odometers on 2 of my cars if I wanted to, but I am never going to sell them.

never going to sell my other car either, but I have no idea what I would have to do in order to roll it back, probably have to desolder the ram and use a dediprog or something.

who is flashing all these cars?

For that kind of massive fraud there has to be a whole industry dedicated to it. I wonder if they all flash voting machines on the side ?

I asked some AI bots if there was any news articles about anyone in California getting charged with doing this but I came up with a big Zero

The only thing I found was a legal firm who claims to be “The Law Firm That Keeps California Car Dealers Honest” and then they tout a news story about a dealer in Florida that was busted for doing this, but not by them.

Obviously the CHIPs does not care or they would have a task force to take care of it. In fact I bet that Officer Jon Baker and Frank “Ponch” Poncherello could crack the case in about an hour./


11 posted on 12/16/2025 4:05:05 PM PST by algore
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To: for-q-clinton

Many years ago, this was common practice by some used car dealers. Somewhere along there was supposedly a change in production on car odometers & it was said they couldn’t be reset without damaging them. Now, with electronics, I don’t know. Is CARFAX any help in the deceptive practice?


12 posted on 12/16/2025 4:07:51 PM PST by oldtech
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To: for-q-clinton

We all know “bad guys” follow rules!


23 posted on 12/16/2025 5:00:07 PM PST by Red6
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