milage, faked easily?

On the same page as you, no worries.

 

Somehow you seem to think that your comments are bothering me. Least of all options, I promise you. I have forgotten more about working on vehicles than you most likely know. While there are some shady ways of doing repairs and such, they are far from "easy" to do, and can cause problems on the vehicle. No matter WHAT method you care to use, you will ALWAYS set a code and that code will tell anyone that the odometer has been tampered with. Either way, I will step away because this is going nowhere. I love how you keep coming up with excuse upon excuse every time I challenge you to post the info. If you are so worried about Bob and the COC, then feel free to email me. My email is right in my vendor page. That way you don't have to worry about violating any rules. I am willing to bet that ANY method you care to explain to me, I will be able to show you how it will easily be caught by any person out there. I am also willing to bet that you will not explain it either. Either way, it is getting boring. Adios.

 

I would go meet and talk to the owner and get a feel about his integrity. Ask to see service records and inspect as mentioned. Obviously driving habits and mileage vary, to me that is not real low mileage. I sold my 2002 Tacoma 2 1/2 years ago and it had +/- 26,000 miles. I replaced it with a 2012 Tacoma purchased 1/12 and currently have less than 2400 miles.

 

I bet you have, but yet you're still clueless about this topic..............

I'm not telling a mechanic how to turn back Toyota odometers. You're starting to get shady.

You want to know look it up. All the data you could ever want is on Indestructibles.com. Stop bantering with me and do some freaking research.... takes 5 minutes to find out how to roll them back or in your case you can just keep making yourself look like an idiot by telling people who know what they are talking about how wrong they are

I'm amazed at your ignorance and thick head. When you do find the info Ill be waiting for an apology.

 

My truck is a 2013 that I bought 3/3/13. It has 5100 on it.So it's possible to have low mileage on a vehicle and it not be shady.

 

Wow. Your maturity really comes out here. You don't even have the gonads to make your claim. I am FAR from shady, and wouldn't do any of those modifications if someone PAID me to do it. I do reputable work at my shop, just ask anyone here. Sure I could look it up. What I was trying to show here was that you made the claim YOURSELF that you could do it under the hood of a truck in 5 minutes. I called you on it, and you still have yet to provide information. The thing is, I know there is a procedure that involves reprogramming the chip on the cluster. My point this entire time, that you fail to explain out, is that IF this was done, it would set a code in the ECU, and thus reveal that the cluster had been altered. So once you actually answer my questions, then maybe we can have a discussion. Your own ignorance is being shown at this point. (Either ignorance, or just plain stubbornness) EVERY time I challenge you, you AGAIN come up with an excuse. Why? Because you can't do what you have claimed! Plain and simple. You can call me names, or throw insults at me all you want. The fact remains YOU CAN'T SUPPORT YOUR OWN CLAIM.

 

Agree to disagree?

 

Talked to my friend today, that particular Taco is gone, out of the equation. Thanks for all the replies, didn't mean to start a bickering fight about how, or if you can turn back miles on our trucks.
I still think it's cool my little truck has turned the opinion around of an old Florida cracker on " them little Jap trucks"!

 

No worries Gearheadesw! Keep looking though. They are out there!

 

My '08, purchased in Oct '07 just passed 50K. Not my daily driver

 

in the spirit of pointless thread continuation, consider my bro's 05

bought new in 05

dui in 05

dui in 05

dui in 05

numerous driving without license + dui

05 Tacoma has about 45k miles on it. original tires still on it. rear bumper doesn't sit strait, clear-coat mostly gone, cig burns interior, and a large gash down the side. only 45k miles. it happens

 

Rough year.

 

My cousin (embarrassing to admit) has one of those odometer stop switches on his 08 Hummer. He bought it with 60K and had the switch installed by one of his friends who does this type of shady work. He does have to drive with the check engine light on at all times due to the hookup of the odometer switch.
I have no idea how to do this nor do I know if it's possible on a tacoma but I've seen it with my own eyes on a hummer with a digital odometer.
But, like BamaToy mentioned, it does interfere with something because the CEL is always on, which I guess he's fine with. Having the CEL on at all times would drive me nuts!

 

Super classy, odometer fraud is a.federal crime, no?

 

It is only fraud if when you go to trade it in or sell it, that you claim the mileage on the display is accurate, knowing that it is NOT accurate. That is where fraud comes in. You can modify or do dang near anything you want with your truck or car as long as you own it. (And your modifications don't violate any current safety laws of course)

 

Sure but turning off odometer counting then only isn't fraud if you never transfer the title of the car or otherwise turn ownership over. But if I'm driving my car, what benefit does.it give me by modifying those numbers? None? So what purpose is there that isn't fraudulent?

 

Blah Blah Blah...

I don't need to support my claim nor do more people need to know how to turn these odometers off. Last person in the world I would ever tell is a mechanic so you could start screwing people over.

Prove me wrong if you don't believe it....you're the person claiming I'm wrong and keeping this up.

Did you look at the site I sent you to?

 

Could you swap the ECU from a low milage wrecked truck into a higher milage truck?

 

I'm sorry? Did you say something? Sure, it's real easy to just make a claim and not support it. You are just furthering the belief that you can't do what you claim, but that is fine. It's been a hoot. And trying to put something in bold red and calling me out saying that I would start screwing people over is bordering on slander. I run a reputable shop here, and have been for years. I worked in the dealerships and worked hard to show that a tech can actually do the right thing, and fix cars right. Even on this forum people who know me know that I diagnose and fix cars the RIGHT way. The reason I know of so many different attempts at speedometer fraud is that when I worked at the dealership I was the one who inspected the vehicles that were being traded in, and part of that inspection was to verify mileage in the odometer. I have seen DOZENS of ways people try to do this, and fail. Only one way has succeeded in only certain vehicles, but I caught this one because he left the modification behind.

As for proving you wrong, how can I prove you wrong if you don't have the balls to tell me how you claim to do this? Man up. It is simple for you to do. But why do you not? Because you CAN'T. Say what you want to try and defend your reasoning, you are AGAIN coming up with excuses.

oh, and by the way, yes I did look at that website. And again, as I said, yes the cluster can be modified to stop counting miles, or to change the miles, but it will STILL set a checksum code in the computer.

 

Do you mean switch the cluster? Yes, you can switch out clusters. But when the computers do their self diagnostic and checksum inspections, a code will set. You can still drive it though.