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>>cwwc+(OP)
"It isn't illegal to replace odometers and it isn't even illegal to sell vehicles with odometers that have inaccurate mileage readouts. However, to do so, a disclaimer needs to be made by the seller, indicating to the buyer that its mileage readout is inaccurate and that the odometer was replaced."

How is it even legal? "You can lie but you have to admit to it".

>>mdrzn+k4
If your odometer breaks and you need to replace it, what else are you supposed to do?

It has to be legal to have an incorrect odometer reading otherwise, unless the odometers are easily changed to display arbitrary readings, entire cars are scrapped as soon as they need replacements.

>>jstanl+o5
Particularly with company/fleet trucks or cars, you normally have an "own" paper log with all the repairs and maintenance performed, so, if you are in good faith, if the odometer breaks at (say) 190,000 miles and the new one reads 110,000, you can easily prove that the vehicle is at 300,000.

When you sell that vehicle only stating "odometer reads 110,000" you are inducing the buyer into error (lying by omission, and you are in bad faith as you have the documents that reveal the real mileage).

For those rare cases where there is no such documentation there is usually the formula "mileage unknown" or similar, but usually it draws the price down to the minimum.