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Does having a rolled back odometer affect resale comopared to salvage?

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There are some cars that are listed on craigslist and a lot of them have had their odometers rolled back. So I was wondering, is just the fact that the odometer has been rolled back enough to discount the car by the same margin as something like a salvage title? I'd imagine that a car that has 200K miles would be worth more than a car that had its odometer rolled back from 150K miles to 100K miles but is now being sold with 150K miles...

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DivideBYZero said:
You tell us. You're the car expert.
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I'm not an "expert" yet but I know what I know. I know that you can safely inflate to sidewall and I know that there is a possibility for a car to not ever get to operating temperature if you're idling in frigid temperatures. I think I posted this on the wrong forum as this is a computer forum filled with shade tree mechanics...
 
Rolling back an odometer is illegal...there is no way I'd knowingly consider buying a car that has had that done to it.
 
fleabag said:
I'm not an "expert" yet but I know what I know. I know that you can safely inflate to sidewall and I know that there is a possibility for a car to not ever get to operating temperature if you're idling in frigid temperatures. I think I posted this on the wrong forum as this is a computer forum filled with shade tree mechanics...
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Of this there is no doubt.
 
JulesMaximus said:
Of this there is no doubt.
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Never claimed to be an "expert" at cars so I don't understand the point of your post. Why don't I just quote you and say that you said "I'm not a pedophile"... We know Jules, who cares!? Just because I'm not an expert, it doesn't mean I'm ignorant either... Of course you're going to retort with some snide comment anyhow..
 
fleabag said:
Never claimed to be an "expert" at cars so I don't understand the point of your post. Why don't I just quote you and say that you said "I'm not a pedophile"... We know Jules, who cares!? Just because I'm not an expert, it doesn't mean I'm ignorant either... Of course you're going to retort with some snide comment anyhow..
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It also doesn't mean you aren't ignorant, strangely enough
 
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