These always include servicing intervals and the km count. Also, look for maintenance stickers, usually found on windows, door frames, glove box or under the hood. Compare the kms on the odometer with the kms on the vehicle’s maintenance and inspection records.The only difference is that, in this case, it's no joke. It’s the car version of asking a woman her age: You ask for her age and she replies by reducing anywhere between 12 months to 8 years off the actual year. If the vehicle’s odometer has been tampered with, it may not receive the servicing it actually needs, putting the new owner at risk of additional damage and unnecessary repair costs. As any mechanic will tell you, there are certain things that need to be checked, changed or repaired every 10,000+ km. The odometer is the number one way to know how much use the car has seen, and also helps indicate the vehicle's condition and impending necessary repairs. Odometer fraud happens when someone resets or alters a vehicle’s odometer or documentation, so as to show less than the vehicle's actual mileage. The new owner is considering police and legal action against the previous company, but let’s face it, he’s not exactly going to see justice anytime soon, and his 16 lac bill is only going to keep increasing once you bring the cops and lawyers into the picture. That's when this sordid mess came to light. He’d brought it into the dealership where my friend works after taking delivery for some upgrades of his own. Didn’t do his homework, so never insisted on seeing service records. Some poor sod had seen the ad for the vehicle, fell for it hook, line and sinker and bought the car. Not a single new component was added nor was a single old component replaced during the last visit. All they did was get the car washed, waxed and tuned. They had recommended service updates at that point, which the previous owners had declined, saying they were going to sell the car. What was unbelievable was that:ī) Thus, there is no way in hell any taxi company would run that vehicle for just 16,200 kms in 3 years!Ĭ) He (the friend) showed me the records for the scheduled 80,000 km service. “What’s so unbelievable about that?” you may ask. He showed me a '09 Toyota Fortuner which, according to its odometer, had clocked a mere 16,200 km.
#How do i find the odometer reading in obdwiz software software#
Sure, this may not surprise anyone, but the sad truth is that odometer correction software is now easily available on the net, thus making it easier than ever to tamper with your odometer, and even harder to detect than it was in the days of mechanical odometer tampering. What we saw and discussed shattered all my impressions on digital being equal to secure. My friend works at one of the Toyota dealerships in Chennai. But my discussion this weekend was an eye opener in realizing this isn't the case. In all honesty, this was probably why manufacturers decided to switch from mechanical to digital odometers, in the hope that it would cut out odometer fraud. The Odometer is the single largest factor in determining whether to buy a used vehicle or not. Today’s cars give prospective owners the misguided belief that we can’t be subject to the oldest trick in the automobile fraud book: Odometer Fraud. I wanted to share this with everyone after a meeting with a friend of mine over the weekend.