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Re: odometer tampering
A message appeared on this very digest a few months ago apparently posted
from Germany that said "If your car has too many miles, email me for more
info", which turned out to be exactly this: for a large fee, the odometer
can be set to any value.
I hope BMW is addressing this very serious problem. Perhaps dealers
could report the indicated mileage at each service to BMW corporate, and
then make that info available to the public. By looking at the reported
mileage by date, possibly suspicious data could be indentified
(particularly if compared with typical mileage profiles).
Of course, any odometer can be tampered with. One way to protect
yourself is to insist on full records when purchasing a used car. While
someone might change an odometer once, they are less likely to fabricate
an entire paper trail of repair invoices with mileages on each one.
Other ideas?
--Cy--
'95 325i/sports Kuehlschrankweiss, BMW CCA Golden Gate Chapter, San Jose, CA
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From: damien@domain.elided (Mr VEYRET Damien)
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 10:27:11 +0200
Subject: Re : odometer tampering
>From: henri baccouche <henri@domain.elided>
>Does anyone know if it's possible to tamper with the digital odometer
>on the late model bmw's ? Is resetting the computer possible by
>hacker types?
One of my friend went to South England two months ago : he told me that
there, you can have 'the mileage you want' for 200$ ...
Damien Veyret
'94 Coupe 318is