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How to avoid odometer fraud
It happens all the time, from a car owner looking for more cash to dealership workers getting greedy. A car’s odometer can tell you how many miles it has been used for, whether the car was idle or moving. The more miles on a vehicle, the lower the value. You just can’t get much money for a car that has 150,000 miles on it. It’s too old, and too used. However, if the seller tweaks the odometer reading to about 75,000 miles the value of that vehicle just went up to maybe double the original value. This action is of course, illegal. Unfortunately, when you are purchasing a used vehicle, you might not even notice the difference.
To know what to look for when avoiding odometer fraud, we must first know how these criminals commit it. I don’t want this to happen to you. Your hard earned cash should be invested in a dependable vehicle, and the seller should be honest. Odometer fraud can ruin your dependability on your vehicle.
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