It's not what you think. I'm talking about people who seemingly accidentally put the mileage too high.
I've run into this problem when going to buy cars from people, but mostly motorcycles.
Most recent example was a 100th Anniversary Harley Sportster I went looking at for a friend of mine. Bike was so clean, I would have gladly made a sandwich on the tank, and then eaten right off of it. Agreed to a great price and closed the deal. Got the cash out, and prepared to load up. Seller goes to get the title.
This bike had 1900 miles on it, and looked even better. I could tell that the bike never saw a lot of action because there was no pitting on the front forks. Don't ask me why, but Harley forks will pit in the vacuum of outer space. All of the 100th Anniversary body pieces still had the proprietary Harley striping through it (impossible to duplicate, like the band in a new $100 bill).
Seller brings me the title and I go over it to make sure no lienholders, etc. That's when I see the mileage: 178,965
What. The. Eff.
Needless to say, I turned around, packed up, and left. Who wants to buy a special edition vehicle with a title problem like that?
There is no way that could be accurate mileage for this bike. An Anni Sportster is not even remotely valuable enough for any idiot to do a nuts-and-bolts restoration on, and then turn back the odo. A Sportster getting driven that much is equally unlikely. Especially this one. S
This is not, however, the first time I have seen something like this. I've even seen it where the Carfax tracked the correct mileage right up until the point the title was issued with the exaggerated mileage. Must be a lot of people filling in the tenths when not supposed to, or maybe they feel like they need to fill in all of the blanks? Start writing mileage from left-to-right? No idea.
I've run into this problem when going to buy cars from people, but mostly motorcycles.
Most recent example was a 100th Anniversary Harley Sportster I went looking at for a friend of mine. Bike was so clean, I would have gladly made a sandwich on the tank, and then eaten right off of it. Agreed to a great price and closed the deal. Got the cash out, and prepared to load up. Seller goes to get the title.
This bike had 1900 miles on it, and looked even better. I could tell that the bike never saw a lot of action because there was no pitting on the front forks. Don't ask me why, but Harley forks will pit in the vacuum of outer space. All of the 100th Anniversary body pieces still had the proprietary Harley striping through it (impossible to duplicate, like the band in a new $100 bill).
Seller brings me the title and I go over it to make sure no lienholders, etc. That's when I see the mileage: 178,965
What. The. Eff.
Needless to say, I turned around, packed up, and left. Who wants to buy a special edition vehicle with a title problem like that?
There is no way that could be accurate mileage for this bike. An Anni Sportster is not even remotely valuable enough for any idiot to do a nuts-and-bolts restoration on, and then turn back the odo. A Sportster getting driven that much is equally unlikely. Especially this one. S
This is not, however, the first time I have seen something like this. I've even seen it where the Carfax tracked the correct mileage right up until the point the title was issued with the exaggerated mileage. Must be a lot of people filling in the tenths when not supposed to, or maybe they feel like they need to fill in all of the blanks? Start writing mileage from left-to-right? No idea.
