odometer fraud common?

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Feb 6, 2011 | 11:16 PM

#21

Marine One

Burning Brakes

Joined: Mar 2010

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From: North Topsail Beach NC

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Originally Posted by Silverbullet00

only 38K on this one by me, 42K by original owner. About 7.3K per year average.

Lot's of low mile cars out there!

Those wheels really look sharp on that car.

Feb 6, 2011 | 11:20 PM

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jacks996

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From: eagle mountain lake tx

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mine is 11 yrs old and just hit 30k miles. My seat does not show the normal wear because I condition it all the time.

Feb 7, 2011 | 07:01 PM

#23

ALLEGRO

Le Mans Master

Joined: Feb 2003

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From: Memphis Tennessee

With the modern odometer technology, I really don't think than many have the skill to fraud it at all.

I agree with several here that most Vettes are weekend-warriors and receive very little mileage. Mine is a bit over 8 years old and has only 34,000 on the clock, and I really try to enjoy mine.

Apr 1, 2025 | 07:58 PM

#24

TimOmaha

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Originally Posted by Patches

It's difficult to change the odometer reading in a C5 - although, not impossible. Nevertheless, lots of c5's are low-mileage cars due to the fact that they may be weekend/pleasure 2nd or 3rd vehicles like ours are. Both are 2002's, one with ~27K miles, the other with 7700.

its actually not difficult at all, which is what brought me to this thread. I purchased a zo6 from a car lot in Dallas Tx, the salesman sent me pics and videos of the interior and exterior, everything was correct… when I received the car it had a base c5 gauge cluster in it.. they swapped it out last minute as the zo6 cluster failed. They claim to have not noticed that it was a base c5 cluster.. so with all that being said, they are purchasing me a new cluster and paying for it to be installed.. through the course of this I have learned that the mileage is stored in a module in the back of the cluster… and as you can imagine, these clusters are all over the internet for sale so if a guy wanted to, he could buy a low mileage cluster, swap it in and drive & rack up miles.. there are some really crappy people out there.. and this is stupid easy to do..like ridiculously easy so I wouldn’t put it past anyone.

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