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Subject:Re: Shady used car dealer in CA??? accidently already sent part of this
From:Stan Wilder
Date:Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:45:06 -0600

Is there anyway to tell within 10,000 how many miles a car has?
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Get a Carfax report www.carfax.com
There are no guarantees that they'll have all of the info.

Stan Wilder

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 02:12:20 +0000 luke sponsler <spons23@HOTMAIL.COM>
writes:
> Hello,
>
> My neighbor just purchased an 88 Wolfsburg Vanagon for $2250 with
> 65,000
> miles on it.  The used car lot he bought it from is Mission Gorge
> Auto in
> San Diego.  The gentleman seemed really nice (I know it's his job)
> and he
> had 4 other vanagons in his lot.
>
> Well after my buddy had the Vanagon for 5 days he realized the
> odometer
> didn't work.  I drove the car briefly for my neighboor, and looked
> at the
> engine but did not think to check the odometer (d'oh).  While
> looking at it,
> I knew the milage sounded rather low, but my buddy took it to a
> mechanic and
> it checked out.
>
> My questions are:
> Has anybody purchased a vanagon from this place?
> Is it illegal to sell a car with a broken odometer?
> Is there anyway to tell within 10,000 how many miles a car has?
> Should I let a sleeping dog lie since the car seems to be driving
> great?
>
> I will say that the guy he bought it from seemed nice (Although
> more than a
> little defensive when I called him to ask aboutthe odometer.  He
> suggested
> it broke in the last 5 days) and offered to refund my neighbor's
> money.
>
> Any advice on this issue?
>
> luke
>
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