Originally Posted by MAYAman
As any dealer could buy such a lower mileage speedo and put it in a car and lie about the mileage. In CT we have laws that says the speedo that goes in to replace a busted one must be new and set to the actual mileage. Has anybody been burned buying a used crossfire with this speedo swap?
Ummm, this isn't 1970 anymore. What you are thinking could happen, can't happen. The odometer mileage isn't stored in the instrument cluster on newer cars with digital odometers. You can switch out as many speedometer clusters as you want, weather they be NEW, USED, 0 miles or 150,000 miles, and each one will read the same.
The Odometer mileage is actually stored in a few place within the electronic lexicon of computers and controllers. It's stored in the ECU, The ABS Control Module, the Body Control Module and another undisclosed location that can't be traced. That way, even if you had to replace all three of those mentioned parts, the car would still show accurate odometer mileage. Rolling back the odometer on one of these cars would take MB Engineer or a Rocket Scientist/Super Hacker with DBR machine...
Rest easy, your chances of being a victim of odometer fraud this day in time are about as good as winning the Mega Millions jackpot. Consumer Protection groups like consumer reports and Carfax still preach to beware the evil car salespeople and shady mechanics. The only reason they do is the same reason that you only see bad news on TV, fear sells and Carfax and Consumer Reports are not non profit companies, so they need to sell...