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How resistant are odometers from being set back nowadays? I've been cruising used pickup ads on farcebook marketplace...some of these listed odo readings seem awfully low to me. 15 yr old pickups with 80k on them? C'mon man. We live in a pretty rural area, folks don't think much of going a hundred miles to dinner and a movie.

Old people selling them?

Young folks with a smaller vehicle for everyday use?

No telling, but it does seem odd. We've got close to 100k on a 6 year old vehicle. Then again, my Tacoma is only getting 5-6 thousand a year now, as it's more expensive to drive than the RAV4.

My f250 is 23 years old.

I only have 120k on it

Had it since 2002


I ain’t like a gazillion other dumbfukks that run up miles on their pickups going to the county fair to eat cotton candy or Taco bell runs, driving to pottery classes at night.

My truck is for big, or serious biz usually pulling a trailer.

You could roll the old analog speedometers back pretty easy, but the new digital ones are pretty tamper proof.

They're really hard to tamper with nowadays. I've got a friend with a 1997 pickup that has less than 90K on it, he just rarely drives it and instead drives a car. My truck only gets about 6000 miles a year vs. 30,000 for my Camry. 40 mpg vs. 15 mpg and $3.30 a gallon gas has me only driving the truck when I have to.

I know of one 01 GMC which the owner swapped out the odometer. No way to tell

I have recently been shopping square body K5 Blazers. It is pretty amazing how many of them are listed with 20K, 40K, on a 30 year old rig.

Nobody will admit the odometer has been turned over three times, or five.

I don’t trust anyone anymore, with the floods and hurricanes and such plus the crap heads around you need to be cautious. A lot of Salvaged etc …

Pull a Carfax or Autocheck on them. Pretty easy to see any odometer discrepancies through its registration history.

My 11 year old truck has 70,000 miles on it and I live rural.

A Zurich or Solus will tell you "Key On" hours from the ECM...

One of my Cummins trucks...



Do that math sometime... LOL.

Gotta live a Cummins.

Just to add

I was cruising used lots before for another 250/350

Was staying in the 4-5 year range. I was finding practically all offerings with 200-260,000 miles.

I said GAHHH DAYUM. WHAT ARE PEOPLE DOING?? 🤦🏻😲

The salesman tells me “well alotta these trucks come outta Texas and ya know theys alotta flat ground out there so flat ground…runs up the mileage”


uhh ok

My 05 1500 has 93000, I bought it 2 years ago with 72000 to put less miles on my duramax, now I only put 4000 on the duramax. The 05 was a mine truck driven on dirt roads by a supervisor, it had more hours, averaged 18mph before I got it going by hours.

Kent

Now days anytime you get something done to the vehicle the mileage goes into a database, we have to have emissions, so if someone tampered it would show up under the last recorded mileage, it would be an issue with the title transfer.

Kent

Well, Texas really isn't Out West, but this might hold true some for a truck from TX.

Out West, it's a long ways to the Walmarks if'n momma wants more ice cream while she's watching he shows at night.

We ain't got 4 or 6 of them in town like y'all's towns in TN. One every 100-200 miles if a fella is lucky.

Hot shot business. We use them every day. I see more sprinter vans than anything but 1/2,3/4 ton pulling gooseneck flatbeds are second in line.

Flintelock: My "one owner" (ME!) 1996 Dodge Cummins Diesel 4x4 extended cab, five speed, 3/4 ton truck has 140,000 "original" miles on it at 26 years of age - thats 5,385 miles per year.
So yes there are many low mileage vehicles out there - I seek them out for relatives and friends constantly.
I fully expect that Dodge Cummins truck of mine to last me the rest of my natural born days.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy
P.S.: My life long friend Jack from Puget Sound country was a body shop owner for 50+ years until he retired.
He was KNOWN for "spinning back" odometers in the 1960's - 1980's then the "electronic odometers" came along and it took him 10 years to figger out how to stop miles from adding up on Ford pickups and SUV's "exploders" (as he referred to his favorites the Ford Explorers). He could NOT turn these odometers back he just kept them from adding miles up.
In other words skullduggery could still possibly going on with some vehicles.

What do you think when you see a dually truck that someone has lowered (slammed) no hitch no tail gait, with truck Balls 2” off the pavement?

Probably not a horsey trailer person

Might or might not have one of those submission dojo stickers slapped on the back?

Just pull the sender out of the transmission. Ran a Jeep that way for a short while waiting for a new sending unit gear to match my oversized tires.

Sounds like a guy that would fit nicely into the "used to be a friend" category. What self-respecting person wants to associate with a known liar and thief?

So it's within hitchhiking distance? LOL