Alright long story but im gonna make it short. This car started out as a lemon but is now the most reliable vehicle i have owned. I bought from a major chevy dealer in the Minneapolis saint paul area a 2005 Malibu maxx with 124,000 miles
I do all the repairs and maintenance I can on my vehicles myself. I have a detached garage accross the parking lot from my townhome with no electricity. In order to work on my cars I run the vehicles headlights and attach my jumppack to the battery.So at 148,000 miles I performed a top end and cranckcase clean with seafoam. Then moved into the garage to perform a coolant flush, spark plug and wires change , cleaned throttle body, changed oil to synthetic, changed air filter, and rotated tires. By the time i got to the spark plugs which were last the headlights had dimmed and i did the whole plug change with the battery disconnected and a headlamp. Afterwords i went to recconect the battery and start her up. I had a problem connecting the negative and the headlights kept flickering on and off. I then tried to start her and my jump pack had died as well. At this point i had not checked the mileage. I went inside and charged my jumpoack for about a hour and went back out.she started up beautifully so i backed he out and went to change the OLM. I then saw 0 miles on the odometer. My trip odometer is displayed on the radio and the odometer displays nothing else. My trip odometers were still reading there previous values but the odometer read 0. Called dealership and was basically acussed of tampering with the computer by some ignorant tech. It seemed the entire dealership thought it was impossible to happen. After they finally realized i had no reason to do this they said they would look into and called me back. 3 WEEKS LATER! they said " a Gm certified computer technician would have to be brought in to make sure the odometer had not been tampered with per GM and then would be reprogrammed since the original reading should be stored in the computer. This would cost me $250/hr and would take approx. 5 hours. No thank you. I believe i have been locked into this car since i would have a [censored] of a time selling it. I said when bought it i would drive it tell it dies and now i guess i have to. I personally believe the car felt it was getting reborn with all the maintenance and decide to start over at 0 miles for me. I plan to drive this car until the odometer reads 152,000 miles or 300,000 actual miles. If anyone has access to a carfax account I would be willing to show the vin and odometer in a video and show the carfax says last report was 126,000 when the transmission was replaced. the dealership forgot to include my copy in the sale folder. Anyone know of a way to reprogram a odometer?
Here is a pic from soon after.
And the most recent one.
I do all the repairs and maintenance I can on my vehicles myself. I have a detached garage accross the parking lot from my townhome with no electricity. In order to work on my cars I run the vehicles headlights and attach my jumppack to the battery.So at 148,000 miles I performed a top end and cranckcase clean with seafoam. Then moved into the garage to perform a coolant flush, spark plug and wires change , cleaned throttle body, changed oil to synthetic, changed air filter, and rotated tires. By the time i got to the spark plugs which were last the headlights had dimmed and i did the whole plug change with the battery disconnected and a headlamp. Afterwords i went to recconect the battery and start her up. I had a problem connecting the negative and the headlights kept flickering on and off. I then tried to start her and my jump pack had died as well. At this point i had not checked the mileage. I went inside and charged my jumpoack for about a hour and went back out.she started up beautifully so i backed he out and went to change the OLM. I then saw 0 miles on the odometer. My trip odometer is displayed on the radio and the odometer displays nothing else. My trip odometers were still reading there previous values but the odometer read 0. Called dealership and was basically acussed of tampering with the computer by some ignorant tech. It seemed the entire dealership thought it was impossible to happen. After they finally realized i had no reason to do this they said they would look into and called me back. 3 WEEKS LATER! they said " a Gm certified computer technician would have to be brought in to make sure the odometer had not been tampered with per GM and then would be reprogrammed since the original reading should be stored in the computer. This would cost me $250/hr and would take approx. 5 hours. No thank you. I believe i have been locked into this car since i would have a [censored] of a time selling it. I said when bought it i would drive it tell it dies and now i guess i have to. I personally believe the car felt it was getting reborn with all the maintenance and decide to start over at 0 miles for me. I plan to drive this car until the odometer reads 152,000 miles or 300,000 actual miles. If anyone has access to a carfax account I would be willing to show the vin and odometer in a video and show the carfax says last report was 126,000 when the transmission was replaced. the dealership forgot to include my copy in the sale folder. Anyone know of a way to reprogram a odometer?
Here is a pic from soon after.
And the most recent one.
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