Can you register a car with a broken odometer? (vehicle, mileage, buy)
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I'm about to buy a used car, it's all mechanically in good shape. The only thing wrong with it is the digital odometer that tells how much mileage the vehicle has, stopped working. The owner who owned the vehicle showed me the Carfax where it passed emissions two years ago that it was over 100,000 miles, but since then the odometer stopped displaying and it's due for emissions this year. So will the DMV fail to register it after I buy it because there's no mileage reading? The state I'm in is Illinois for reference.
Don't know the Illinois rules, but in Florida, there is a checkbox on the sale transaction paperwork for 'this odometer reading is not verified to be correct' of something like that and would assume other states had similar language to show that the buyer knew that what it reads ins't necessarily right.
yes. mot states have the check box that usually indicates one of three things,
a=actual mileage
b-exceeds mechanical limits
c=does not indicate actual mileage
but depending on your car, if you get the odometer repaired, it might actually indicate the actual mileage since that number is stored in the ECU, and not in the instrument cluster like in the old days.
Don't know the Illinois rules, but in Florida, there is a checkbox on the sale transaction paperwork for 'this odometer reading is not verified to be correct' of something like that and would assume other states had similar language to show that the buyer knew that what it reads ins't necessarily right.
When I lived in Illinois (moved in 2005) there was in fact a checkbox that said something like "Mileage stated is incorrect or is in excess of the vehicle's mechanical abilities" (in other words, over 100,000 miles on an old 5-digit odometer). If the OP just checks that box he or she will be fine.
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