Odometer of kilometers traveled

Car age and mileage, that is, the odometer reading is the two main criteria for evaluating a used car. Details such as color usually go to the background, lacquer, additional equipment.

Counter status kilometers driven immediately after the year of production seems to be of fundamental importance. Therefore, it is not surprising, that's it meter status is the target of scammers and the biggest playing field for car hackers, especially, that today such a swindle as counter reset for a crook armed with a laptop and specialized, albeit commercially available software, no problem.

Once counter reset was associated with removing it and rearranging the numbers, which required great dexterity and truly watchmaker precision. Today, it is enough to connect the laptop to the diagnostic connector, which almost every car already has, and then you just need to tap on the laptop keyboard the waveform you want to get.

Such a few-minute procedure often helps to sell even the biggest junk when it comes to technical condition, and when it is given car sold for a car with good mileage, the dealer gets ten to fifteen percent more than the actual value of the car being sold car.

It should be assumed that, that modern engines provide full efficiency up to a mileage of approx 250 thousand kilometers. But it's easy to imagine, what condition will it be in car, which has over three hundred thousand and counter withdrawn do stu. The owner is confident in his efficiency car will be surprised by strange glitches from time to time.

Even if car it will actually have 150,000 miles on it and the engine will be in good working order, some consumables such as the alternator, shock absorbers and many others may already be significantly worn out.