Vehicle experts are warning anyone in the market for a used car to be on the lookout for rolled-back odometers, which can trick consumers into believing a car has less mileage or wear and tear than it ...
The only way you'll know if your car hits the 200,000 mile mark is by having a functioning odometer. But the plastic gears that turn an analog odometer have a tendency to break, which causes the ...
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), more than 450,000 vehicles are sold each year with false odometer readings. Odometer fraud costs Americans $1.056 million every ...
Odometer rollbacks aren't just an old trick; digital tools are making this car scam harder to spot and more costly for ...
LITTLETON, Colo. — The U.S. Justice Department calls it “clocking”: intentionally rolling back an odometer to make a vehicle appear less used. Odometer rollback is “the single most common fraudulent ...
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Nine years ago, Jeff Caplan was working on a 1980 five-series BMW and needed to fix the odometer. “Every speedometer shop I contacted said the same thing, ‘You have to send it in.
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