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by Sweet Baby Jane on January 5th, 2011

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I bought a vehicle w/95,400 miles, I found a personal odometer showing over 176,000 miles, hours show 2,796, can the odometer be wrong?

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  • by More2Be on January 5th, 2011

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    I am not completely familiar with any use of a personal odometer going that high, as I somehow picture them being used like typical Garmin products that measure statistics while moving under your own steam (e.g., cycling, running, walking). Do the math on the miles and hours. Those 176,000 miles would have to average 62.947 MPH over the life of the odometer run. It is highly unlikely the car ran at that average speed, for that long, over that many miles, unless the previous owner drove around on the freeway all day every day, never stalled in traffic, never on neighborhood streets or secondary roads, 10 hours per day, 5 days a week, for a year or so. Most car mileages are mixed road and in-town and would more likely average about 30 to 40 mph instead of almost 63.

    Maybe there is something freaky about the personal odometer, or maybe the person wore it at all times and frequently traveled by air, which would skew the statistics toward the faster average. He may have had more than one car. He may have had access to a car for business travel, saving miles on his own vehicle. He may have had the personal odometer longer than he had the car. Obviously, there are many possibilities in addition to the mathematical unlikelihood of reconciling the personal odometer exclusively with the car's operation.

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    • The personal odometer is actually on the dash. If you push the knob on the dash, it toggles between the regular odometer, a personal odometer (like a trip odometer) and a business odometer and then the hours. So the personal odometer acts like a trip odomter and it is higher than the regular odometer. The business odometer shows 0.0 miles. It would make sense it does have the 95,400 miles with the hours showing as 2,796 based on average speeds over the life of the car.

      Sweet Baby Jane

      by Sweet Baby Jane on January 5th, 2011

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