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What to do if you find out your car s miles have been rolled back?

So a few months ago, i went to a Dealership called Blessed Auto Outlet in Florida to buy a 2003 Acura 3.2TL Type S. when I bought it, the title said Exempt for miles, and I was told the reason for that is that a new engine had been put in, the odometer showed 150k miles and I thought nothing of it. fast forward a few months, and the car is at 163k miles, and had a new engine put in at 162500, and is showing signs of transmission slipping, so decide to try my luck, and go trade it in at another dealership to get a different car, the dealer checks my VIN, and it shows that when my car s odometer was checked, it had 292k miles, AND that there was a problem with the title. assuming it had the miles rolled back from 292k to 150k before I bought it, that would mean the odometer was rolled back by 142k miles (this is a digital odometer, I don t even know how they did that!). so now I find out I spent $3000 on a car I wouldn t have spent $1000 on (I tend to stay away from high milage cars, as I don t want to have to replace engines and transmissions, which as I mentioned earlier, I did, and will have to do.) So what can I do now? is it illegal for me to own a car with a rolled back odometer in the state of florida (which is where I am) what can I do about this situation? I did post on FB about it, and said I was so angry that I wanted to sue the **** out of Blessed Auto Outlet (the dealer who sold me this car) only for them to pm me saying they talked to their lawyers already........

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  • Damon
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    The way it's done is a new dash cluster is purchased and married up to the TL's computer showing less miles. They will of course deny having done so and state it was that way when they innocently bought it. Your only recourse is reporting it directly to your DMV and consumer affairs divisions of your state attorney. Trying to sue them for a 3k car will go literally nowhere, unless your state has a Lemon Law. Does it ?

  • 5 years ago

    Wait a minute. You bought the car with (supposedly) 150K miles with a new engine. Now 12,500 miles later you replace that engine. That doesn't make sense.

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