Joe Knight wrote:
The odometer is purely mechanical in your car, Dan. No electrics
involved, except for lighting. That's not to say it mightn't have
malfunctioned at some point. Without very complete service records
and a pretty good knowledge of the vehicle's history I don't know how
you'd go about ascertaining that.
joe
What Joe said AND: The odometer can be fail so it doesn't register -
perhaps for years and then be repaired (often a simple repair) and pick
up right where it stopped (years or days or weeks ago). That's why a
CarFax check CAN provide a clue as to use - that should match the
pattern of use the seller describes. Of course the previous owner might
well have slipped in a replacement speedometer. I've done that on
several cars - not to distort mileage but because it was less expensive
then repairing the original speedometer.
Marshall
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'87 300TD 181Kmi,'87 190D 2.5 199Kmi, '84 190D 2.2 227Kmi, '85 190D 2.0
159Kmi, '87 190D 2.5 turbo 234kmi
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