I was reading another post and someone mentioned the mileage wasn't "documented". The car was a low mile 69 still owned by the original purchaser.........So, how do you document mileage?
How do you document mileage?
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I was reading another post and someone mentioned the mileage wasn't "documented". The car was a low mile 69 still owned by the original purchaser.........So, how do you document mileage?
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What if the car is a 25K original mile car with two or more previous owners and the last 20 plus years self serviced........is there any other way?
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Documenting mileage is just that, documentation. Guys say they can tell mileage by brake pedal pad wear and set suppelness. It is still called documentation for a reason.
Years ago (ok, three years ago) I bought a 73 Satellite Sebring Plus off the side of the road. They guy was an anal retentive kinda guy. Notebooks for absoloutely every time the guy put gas in it, changed the oil, and all repairs. He noted mleage based on the predominate driving style of that fill up be it city or highway as well as where he bought the gas and price. The notes fell off in 2000 which pretty much matched the sticker on the tag and the car showed right at 79k.
Even though the car was a 318 with a slapstick with hubcaps, it sold for me on eBay for just over $14k. But it was rust free and evidently someone needed the car as the winner bid on the car and won from my computer. He actually said it it was not for that manilla folder of paper he would not have bid more than $8k.
Years ago (ok, three years ago) I bought a 73 Satellite Sebring Plus off the side of the road. They guy was an anal retentive kinda guy. Notebooks for absoloutely every time the guy put gas in it, changed the oil, and all repairs. He noted mleage based on the predominate driving style of that fill up be it city or highway as well as where he bought the gas and price. The notes fell off in 2000 which pretty much matched the sticker on the tag and the car showed right at 79k.
Even though the car was a 318 with a slapstick with hubcaps, it sold for me on eBay for just over $14k. But it was rust free and evidently someone needed the car as the winner bid on the car and won from my computer. He actually said it it was not for that manilla folder of paper he would not have bid more than $8k.
Unless you some kind of legitimate documentation to back up the mileage, it's just your word. Our car came with a copy of it's title when it was owned in New Jersey. The owner at that time sold it in 2002 with 42,958 miles and according to the title, it was certified as actual miles. Fortunately our car's overall condition seems to back it up.
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I loved those little white and black tumbler odometers back in the day.Not that I.ever knew what you could do with them.
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I loved those little white and black tumbler odometers back in the day.Not that I.ever knew what you could do with them.
A friend of mine talked me into tampering with the odometer on a 91 chevy pickup once to keep it in the extended waranty longer...well you can't just roll them back like an old one you had to dismantle the thing and it had a thing on back of numbers to prevent you from rolling it bwd...but if you took it apart you could turn it back but it would only go back together in certain spots....what a mess. I bought the truck with 62,000 miles and after I got done messing with it it had 37000 ...lol I was just glad to have it back together....good thing I never needed that waranty I could see that now....
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