With this simple trick; You will find out about the manipulation of the car’s mileage

Detection of car mileage manipulation and calculation of actual performance

According to the online economy report; A number of battery makers are able to do this and do it for a fee, and for some of them, it is even a source of continuous income. As a result of this reduction in performance, in addition to the fact that the customer buys the car more expensive than its real value, the maintenance costs of the car will also be higher than expected.

Of course, the issue of lowering car mileage is not seen only in Iran, but also in European countries, many people manipulate car mileage and sell them at higher prices.

How to detect tampering with car mileage

If you intend to buy a second-hand or used car, probably the first thing you do is to check it with a car technician to identify its problems. Buying a car is such a broad discussion that it does not end only with the technical problems of the car and its appearance. One of the important factors in checking the car’s performance is the mileage, which has a great impact on its price, and this has caused many people to think about reducing the mileage of their car when selling it.

Ways to detect the actual mileage of a car

One of the best ways to detect tampered kilometers and to detect the actual mileage of a car and to identify tampered vehicles is to find and check the car’s service manual. In this booklet, which is updated after every visit to the work service, the car’s performance level is written. On the other hand, the technical inspection sheet of each car also has information about the mileage of the car in question, and of course, you can check from the car body whether the provided values ​​seem reasonable or not.

Cars that have been used a lot can be recognized from the body, so that there will be scratches on the body by pebbles, a change in the color of the body, especially in the bumper and engine cover. Also, car seats, lever or gas pedals, clutch, etc. all provide you with good information about the car’s operation. You might not think that changing the engine cover and the parts mentioned above is useless! But we must say that replacing these items will cost more than the profit received from manipulating the car’s mileage.

Detecting manipulation of car kilometers in new odometers

But in some of today’s cars, in addition to being recorded in your mileage, the car’s mileage is also stored in the car’s computer system. In this case, it becomes more difficult for a normal person to change the operation of the car and even detect the manipulation of the mileage, and this work should be done by the repairmen.

In cars, the operation of the car affects the gear, steering wheel, pedals, etc. Of course, all these items can be easily replaced by an expert broker. If you have a hand in the fire yourself, otherwise, with the help of a car expert, check two items that are not usually replaced by dealers:

Car radiator for high performance cars

Brake disc for low performance cars

The gaps in the radiator of the car increase over time due to the impact of air, insects, dust, etc., and the longer these gaps are, the higher the performance of the car. If you check the radiator of a car and find unreasonable distances, it is most likely that the odometer has been tampered with. It is worth mentioning that since the radiator of the car is replaced almost every 150 thousand kilometers, replacing it earlier is also a question and should be taken into account when buying a car.

Checking the brake disc is more applicable for cars with low performance. A disk that has worked for more than 60,000 to 70,000 kilometers will have sharp edges, but for low mileage such as 20, 30, and 40,000 kilometers, the presence of sharpness on the edge of the disk is completely unusual and indicates that the mileage of the car has been tampered with. It is important to make sure the disc is cool before touching it.

A list of car brands along with how to store the car’s operation:

Audi: stored in your km and the car’s central computer.

BMW: Recorded in your km and in two other parts of the car.

Citroën, Fiat, Volkswagen and Volvo: stored in your mileage and engine management system

Ford and Peugeot: It is stored in your odometer and the car’s computer, which of course will change by manipulating the odometer on the computer.

Kia: It is stored only in the odometer.

Benz: Odometer and start switch (authorized agencies can see with their computer how many times the particulate filter system has been used and thus get the actual mileage in diesel models.)

Opel: odometer, computer control system and system. This in Opel means that tampering with the odometer will cause all three systems to misread and the driving computer will always show the error.

Reno: In the Megane and Scenic models, the kilometers driven are registered both in the odometer and in the ABS system.

Toyota: In hybrid models, kilometers driven are recorded both in the odometer and in the computer control system. But in other models, it remains only in the odometer.