Low Mileage Cars for Sale... tampered or not?

[franhiz]

Ever thought about the low mileage cars for sale. Most of them you'd see in used car lots.

I don't understand how these people (sellers) can look at you with a straight face and without a flinch say it only has 30-40-50thou kilometers.

just take a quick glance at regular cars parked allover.. mga miles nila nearing the hundreds... obviously, the used cars' odometer's are tampered. and of course, i know of a few owners with real low miles too.

what's your opinion?

[nemo's friend]

oo meron tampered, pero depende yan sa seller (if manloloko)... and buyer (if maloloko)

i got my car at 19TKm only eventhough 26 months na sya. how did i find out na di sya tampered? the seller asked me to check the car from place of residence. i saw 2 other cars there which really established that the car i was looking at is used primarily on coding days, explaining the low mileage.

it is really worth it to check out the seller, and buy from DIRECT sellers. and, lastly - buy from another tsikoteer :lol:

[Jun aka Pekto]

it pays to check the car's history.

If a car spent most of its time mired in Manila's traffic, wouldn't the mileage be pretty low? If you check the mileage of some car owners in that "How many km/miles do you have in your car" thread, some of them have pretty low odometer readings even for an old car.

[ghosthunter]

some low mileage cars are honest low mileage cars simply because they were only used during "coding" days (used one day a week). Others are because the car was bought for their kid to drive to college which is only a few kilometers away.

[Autobeat]

Yes, be careful of sellers who tamper the odometers of the cars they are selling.

I knew once of a seller who could not immediately sell a 4 year old ride because it already had more than 100k km already. They eventually got to sell it quickly (w/in the day of their re-advertisement) after they somehow tampered the digital odometer to read just around 40k km that time.

[cocoy]

there should be other factors to look at aside from just the odometer....

[number001]

For us, we had this car that was used for short distance travel. Since new, the car covers around 7 kms only per day, 6x per week. This went on for 9 yrs and four months or so of use, by which it has logged 22,xxx kms then. Now it is used for more often since Feb 2006, so its mileage is now 26,xxx kms.

Our other car was used more extensively for the first year and half of its life. Going from Manila to Mamplasan Laguna everyday for 4x times a week. It managed to log 15,xxx kms before it was used on shorter routes. Now after 7 yrs since the 15,xxx kms mark, it just has 24,xxx kms.

Bottomline: Not all low mileage vehicles being sold, have tampered odometers.

Btw, is there a way to tell if the odometer has been tampered with, for both electronic and old dial gauge type?

[bougartt]

oo meron tampered, pero depende yan sa seller (if manloloko)... and buyer (if maloloko)

i got my car at 19TKm only eventhough 26 months na sya. how did i find out na di sya tampered? the seller asked me to check the car from place of residence. i saw 2 other cars there which really established that the car i was looking at is used primarily on coding days, explaining the low mileage.

it is really worth it to check out the seller, and buy from DIRECT sellers. and, lastly - buy from another tsikoteer :lol:

Thanks Dory!
I sure miss that altis, but im sure its in pretty good hands withyou

[newuser1]

minsan swertehan lang tlga para mkakuha ka ng low mileage car. yung akin, I got it from a big time business woman sa may valle 6. civic 95 with 56k kms. reading. last february ko lang cya nkuha. pano ko nlaman na totoo...? meron milegae plus ung honda... every 10k kms. ata un check nila.. then may sticky rin sa may front reminding kung kelan mo babalik sa casa. meron din cya notebook na bigay ng honda kung saan log lhat ng activities ng mga tech and mechanics plus kung ilang mileage narin... kaya di ko na pnakawalan ung au2... 12 cars kc ung au2 ng may-ari.. as of now 59k n takbo ko...

[vinj]

With my experience, from dealers/buy&sell chances are tampered... except those CASA trade-ins (where i get some good deals from time-to-time) which are usually in good condition. Best is to get from a direct owner as you can see a lot with talking and observing the owner. And low-mileage doesnt always mean good condition BTW... there are high mileage cars which are in better shape as owners may have taken good care of them or they're always driven on the highways.

[federal]

tip :

regarding the cars with analog odometers, madali magrewind. most car repair shops offer the service for 500 bucks ata... name your kilometer. as per the digital ones, i heard that when they are adjusted, nasisira ata.

sa casa naman, i have a friend who once worked sa toyota. they remove daw the connection to the odometer of the test drive unit tapos sinasana sa inventory pag medyo wala na mabenta selling it as new. daya noh?

so one thing to do para sure is ask for a repair summary from the casa of the vehicle. kung sa shop, maybe log nung miles when it was repaired.

to give you an idea, consumption should be around 1000+- km per month siguro. tapos adjust na lang.