Re: Subject: Odometer Discrepancy : What to do ?

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <36B82FC6.EA595AAE@nycap.rr.com> Osman Parvez writes:

> A few people have complained to the list about buying cars with tampered
> with odometers (not broken). The odometers had been rolled back
> signficantly. This is because German cars mask age extremely well.

If you switch on Charles Adair's MB ur-quattro, and fool the dash into
thinking it's brilliant sunlight with a Bend-a-Light, you can clearly
see an irregular dark quadrilateral just the same size as an odometer
digit just _exactly_ covering where the sixth digit would be.

He says the car has 58,000 miles.  I think the dash at least has
158,000 miles.  Trouble is, he won't leave me alone with the car for
long enough!

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