Posted on 06/25/2023 10:42:40 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Ditto. If I’m buying something like these trucks, I’m plugging into trucks computer to check codes and history. Something smells fishy.
I chatted with a driver of an “Airport Shuttle”at DFW as he was putting gas in. He said his van had over 750K miles and they rarely ever get switched off. They use(or use to) Large Ford passenger vans with huge desiel engines.
Hard to tell.
Do black live still matter?
Haven’t heard much from them lately.
“I don’t think it would make sense to rollback the odometer just to get a better deal for it when sold.”
Absolutely right. There are many tell-tales about a vehicles true mileage as well as maintenance logs.
If the springs are poking through the seat upholstery, that might give you a clue. As would brand-new seats.
“Do not give this much credence, IMHO...”
I AGREE! This is BS! FED EX involved in clocking odometers?
REALLY? Hold my beer.
There was a youtube video about this a year or two back. It concerned the replacement of the speedometer/odometers in the Fedex trucks. When they failed and had to be replaced the new part started at zero and no mention was made to potential buyers of this fact. I believe the person in the video stated you could tell if there was a replacement as the original part did not have visible screws in the mounting to the dashboard, while the replacement did.
The video included an example of a buyer who encountered this and was more than a little bit upset. He thought he was getting a real good deal but wound up with a worn out truck.
GMTA See post #6.
On a reverse type of fraud. I read that in the 80’s in Russia, when taxi drivers were paid by the mile...The taxi drivers would park their taxies on blocks in their yard..run the engine in gear and add mileage to the car while the wheels were turning and they were getting drunk. Governments are always being defauded.
Lot of cars in the 2000s still kept their mileage in the gauge cluster.
Personal experience - 99-06 Silverado/Sierra and 99-01 Jeep Cherokee. Ironically, both tend to have cluster issues that mean most owners with high mileage will have to replace them. If you buy new, mileage resets to zero. Buy used and it’s a crapshoot.
They can be reprogrammed sometimes, but usually only with the dealer-level scan tools.
I thought Ernie Boch, Sr. died many years ago. He must have trained the FedEx people before his demise.
I don’t know what type of speedometer/odometer they are using but the VDO units we had in our fire trucks for awhile lasted a few years before the odometer LED’s died and the whole unit was replaced.
Not many black criminals have been shot by white cops lately, at least on video.
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