ihaveaquestion

Hi, I bought a 2000 C230 Kompressor a month ago with what I supposed to be the accurate mileage of 60k. But yesterday, the gauge showed 75k all of a sudden. Granted, the gauge has been having issue displaying digits correctly...it would miss a line here and there. I bought the car based on the mileage shown on the gauge (60k) at the time of purchase. I wonder if there is another way of telling the "true" mileage of the car? Thank you.

Austex_Egger

Never heard of an odometer jumping around. No real way to validate an odometer reading. About the only thing I can think of would be to run a CarFax (if you didn't before you bought the car) and see if the mileage tracking makes sense.

ptcruiser

I have never heard of that happening as well.
To roll the odometer back, which can be done, the equipment to do is worth about $20,000.00, so it is unlikely that happened.