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Originally Posted by TerminatorX5
what about the DOT records? in many states, when a car's registration is renewed, the DOT will ask for the current mileage, not really exact mileage but some number..,That number should be increasing from year to year accounting for the miles driven, and technically should throw a red flag within the same state, if the "new" registration shows the car with less mileage then the previous registration of the same car... i am not so sure about the out-of-state cars... besides, the seller MUST indicate if the odometer reading is actual or "estimate"... verbaige will vary from state to state...
From what I remember, the odometer reading is registered in the cluster, the LCM and the ABS unit, where all three must be within 200 km (or is it 200 miles?) from each other.
I would not rely on the CarFax, as it listed my own car as being in the US (which it was), then all of a sudden coming into the US from Costa Rica in 2009 and NEVER indicating that the car left the US for Costa Rica in 2007... so, it looks funny... Then it shows as being exported to Belgium even though it was sent to Finland via Belgium for final destination in Russia, and then it shows as coming back from Belgium and the car's origin being in Germany... the X, that was born in the US... lol... Do your research and do not rely on the CarFax...
of course, if you care to know the history of the car... otherwise, just have your daughter enjoy it... hopefully her college life will not destroy the car prematurelly - my sister-in-law got an E36 coupe for her 17th B.day... her, and her friends thrashed the car that in a couple of years that poor thing looked like an old, beat up honda civic...
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Well if the Carfax is wrong, and the car's mileage is accurate, that's just another plus. But when a year or more passes, and the mileage reported at state inspections dropped something's fishy. But I don't really care. This car is too clean for its age to be too worried.
As far as my daughter ruining it at college, time will tell. She can't have a car freshman year, so she'll have two years of "supervised" ownership before she's on her own. But she'll only be 150 miles away, so she can always come home for repairs and service.