2006-08-14 07:05:52 · 14 answers · asked by The LSC Group 3 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Where are these people getting their answers from?? So long as you are honest about it - YES YOU CAN!! You just have to be legal, decent and honest and admit it.
2006-08-14 07:11:35 · answer #1 · answered by Away With The Fairies 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Federal law (in the USA) requires you to certify that the mileage is correct on a vehicle at the time of sale, or you must disclose an odometer discrepancy!
It is NOT illegal to reset an odometer, it is illegal to certify that the mileage is correct when it is not. You own the vehicle You can do anything you want to with the odometer, as long as you are not doing it fro a fraudulent purpose.
You can not reset the odometer in order to get warranty service, if the car is really out of warranty due to mileage. You can not sell the car and claim that the mileage is correct when it is not!!
You can set the odometer back if it makes you happy. It does not increase the actual value of the car, in fact a car that is TMU (True Mileage Unknown) is usually worth less than a high mileage vehicle with the correct mileage.
2006-08-14 08:19:14 · answer #2 · answered by fire4511 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
And now, the correct answer.
You cannot legally reset or "roll back" the odometer on the car; despite what others have said it is illegal to do so. However, if you were to, for whatever reason, replace the entire dash gauge cluster that contains the odometer with a new one that reads 0 miles, then that is not illegal, so long as you sign an odometer disclosure statement that says the mileage on the odometer is not the actual mileage.
People who restore vintage cars do this regularly...they rebuild the car from scratch, including everything from the frame up including all the gauges, odometer, etc., so that the newly rebuilt and restored car technically has 0 miles on it...but the odometer disclosure statement still says that the miles aren't actual, as the car's body & frame still technically have the "old" miles on them.
I hope I explained this OK.
2006-08-14 07:43:09 · answer #3 · answered by answerman63 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It wouldn't increase the car in value because by law you would have to declare you have changed the speedo head and the rest of the car wouldn't look like new anyway. It is not illegal to clock a car, its only illegal to sell a car without declaring the mileage is incorrect. THIS IS FACT.
2006-08-14 07:21:50 · answer #4 · answered by stuart3101 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not - your car's chassis has the miles indicated on all other components and the law required that it remain at its current setting. You can however put a piece of tape on the drivers door jamb, just below the vehicle id sticker, and list the mileage at which the engine was replaced.
2006-08-14 07:11:39 · answer #5 · answered by ; - } 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No.
The odometer is the mileage for the entire car/truck. It is illegal to tamper with it.
Keep you receipts for the engine and work, along with the mileage reading when the engine was replaced, keep them with the vehicle papers and show them when/if you sell the car.
Yours: Grumpy
2006-08-14 07:09:46 · answer #6 · answered by Grumpy 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
why would you want too?
the rest of the car has done those miles your just note the mileage the new engine was fitted.
2006-08-14 07:14:23 · answer #7 · answered by chunky 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Clocking your mileage is illegal.The rest of your car as still done the mileage.
2006-08-14 07:22:37 · answer #8 · answered by PC 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not at all.
You can fit a new odomoeter legally, but you have to have a special sticker on I believe, stating the fact.
2006-08-14 07:11:51 · answer #9 · answered by spiegy2000 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Your odometer? Legally, I do not believe so.
2006-08-14 07:09:55 · answer #10 · answered by Dan K 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋