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Originally Posted by Lost Leaf
I've found even more rollbacks today, it's really becoming an epidemic.
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FWIW, if you are looking at cars 10, 15 or more years old, the miles hardly tell the most important tale - you need to inspect the actual condition of the car, identify the problems it has, figure out if there are any deal-breakers (you have to define deal breaker yourself - for me it's a bent or rusty body, but you need to decide what it is you don't want to deal with) and figure out what it will cost to take care of the immediate repairs, and which repairs you will want to do but can wait, and what issues you are willing to just live with.
Some older cars have already had some big-ticket repair jobs done, for example maybe a new clutch.
And, as I have posted many times, all miles are hardly created equal. A car that's done 100K in downtown Seattle is going to be much more tired than one that did 150K of mostly highway miles here in the rural, dry East side of WA.
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