Can you tell if the Odom rolled over?
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Can you tell if the Odom rolled over?
I see a lot of Vette's claiming to be "low miles" but with the Odometer rolling over at 100k, how can you tell if it has? I'm thinking most of these so called low mile Vette's are rolled over. I could be wrong.. hopefully you guys will set me straight
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I don't recall if my odometer had an extra number cylinder to register over 100,000 miles when I disassembled it a couple years ago.
FYI .......it showed 55,000+ miles and the brake pads were original which means it wasn't driven enough to have the pads replaced or the rotors turned.
FYI .......it showed 55,000+ miles and the brake pads were original which means it wasn't driven enough to have the pads replaced or the rotors turned.
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Instructor
There's a ton of ways to get really good hints, Brakes are a great start, wear on the pedals, heel marks in the carpet, lots of little things that should or shouldn't have been replaced.
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Burning Brakes
My ball joints were original, and the rotors still had rivets in them, Can't see how they would still be there if our car had 171k miles. but I have to remind myself 71k miles in 1979 was a lot.
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Old Fart Pilot
Went down into the basement and checked mine removed from my '71 a (long) while ago during disassembly. It shows 34318 straight across and the car IS a 100,000+ miler. Haven't taken the gages apart, so I'm unsure if there is another digit hiding there that's not in view (but I doubt it...).
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Race Director
There is not a 7th digit there. I used to work on jags in the mid-80's. They started with 7th digit on odo. Used to joke they should have put a headstone with R.I.P. across it instead of the number 1...
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Team Owner
The "tell" on how many actual miles the car has is NOT the odometer....it's the wear on the brake/clutch pedals and on the carpeting. A real 50K mile car doesn't have most of the brake pedal pad worn off nor worn-out areas in the carpet.
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Melting Slicks
numbers appear lined up.
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Race Director
150k. Drivers door drops a foot with hinge wear...
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My car is low mieage (42K miles), and I am the 2nd owner. I can document the mileage with many service records and a few old license receipts that I have back to when the car was almost new. I think that is the best proof, because I don't think a rolled over odometer looks much different from a new one.
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Team Owner
We have a winner. You can always tell if a unrestored car has 100K plus or something south of that by the condition of the interior for starters.
Back in the day (70's) a car was considered worn out if it had 100K miles on it and there was a lot to be said for that statement. Back than people didn't commute like we do today so clocking 10K a year was a lot of miles and a 10 year old Chevy was an old car.
Back in the day (70's) a car was considered worn out if it had 100K miles on it and there was a lot to be said for that statement. Back than people didn't commute like we do today so clocking 10K a year was a lot of miles and a 10 year old Chevy was an old car.
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The speedo in my old '67 Camaro had a felt pad impregnated with a substance that would rub away at the 5th digit numerals as they rode by. So when it rolled over, the "0" digit would now show signs of the painted number beginning to rub off from the felt pad.