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Hi,
is there any way to get cars real milage, even if it has been changed?
Can official dealership get it from CPU archives? Exactly i need the date and change "from" "to" that was made.
From car report i get info, that the milage may be edited 4 years ago. The drop i more than 100k (thats in km).
I could get someone to add some milage, but that would be only the prediction. But I want to restore the real milage, even if its 400k. (that would be even more exeptional for me, than alll those low milage cars - closer to half million). Maybe at 1 mln, Jaguar will grand me the new electrical XJ
Yes, i'm from Lithuania (Eastern Europe), so at least all main laws of European Union apply here. The alteration is illegal, but because most vehicles here are mostly second hand used cars from Germany, France, Scandinavian countries, you still can find workshops that can edit milage data, or providers that sale data editing equipment.
Also noone will work on case, for alteration made 4 years ago.
I will try to reach Jaguar dealership tomorrow, at least to find out if XJ has any kind of archive memory or logs of changes made.
Oh we can do all the editing and changing just fine in the US that's not the problem but how can the government allow these altered cars to be registered?
What about wrecked and rebuilt cars? Stolen cars?
Seems like a big can of worms if that's allowed?
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It is possible, that as always in governmental companies - the system does not work
Here, milage is registered during every MOT. But it doesn't seam that they are interested in controling it, or inform to any authorities. Knowing, that most biggest maintenances are made after 150-250k, used car resellers change the milage backwards to hide upcoming problems. Then you can read in forums, that someones engine blowed up at 50-100k and how those models are unreliable, but in reality it may be passed 300k.
On older cars (up to 2000), you always can change the dashboard with mechanical odometer and lower milage, and you can say, that it is real.
But now, all the data is kept in CPU. Had a case, when same model cars (different production year), burned dashboards were changed. In one case - the milage was transfered from donor car, on the other - the milage was kept from the owners car.
"Title Washing" is illegal in the US, but like (too) many things, it's left to the individual states to define, regulate and report it. Yet another reason to perform a Pre-Purchase inspection on any car you're thinking of buying. https://www.autolist.com/guides/title-washing