Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Transportation › Chapter Trans 154 - Vehicle Odometer Disclosure Requirements › Section Trans 154.09 - Odometer disclosure for repaired or replaced odometers

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) REQUIREMENTS
			 AND DISCLOSURE WHEN ODOMETER REPAIRED OR REPLACED. An odometer may be serviced,
			 repaired or replaced, provided the vehicle's mileage indicated thereon remains
			 the same as before the service, repair or replacement. The transferor may
			 disclose that the odometer reading reflects the actual mileage at the time of
			 sale. If the odometer is incapable of registering the same mileage as before
			 the service, repair or replacement, the odometer shall be adjusted to zero. A
			 written notice shall be attached, by the owner or an agent, to the left door
			 frame of the motor vehicle, or other location prescribed by the department. The
			 notice shall specify the vehicle's mileage prior to the service, repair or
			 replacement of the odometer and the date on which it was serviced, repaired or
			 replaced. No person may remove the notice. The transferor shall disclose that
			 the odometer reading does not reflect the actual mileage.
(2) REPLACEMENT OF ODOMETER WHICH REGISTERS
			 KILOMETERS WITH ODOMETER WHICH REGISTERS MILES. If the vehicle being
			 transferred was originally equipped with an odometer which registered the
			 distance traveled in kilometers and the odometer is replaced with one that
			 registers the distance traveled in miles, the transferor may disclose that the
			 odometer reading reflects the actual mileage, providing that the replacement
			 odometer was calibrated to reflect the equivalent accumulated miles as was
			 reflected in kilometers on the odometer being replaced. The equivalency in
			 miles shall be determined by multiplying the odometer reading in kilometers by
			 .62. If, under these circumstances, the odometer is not calibrated as described
			 in this subsection, the vehicle's mileage shall be disclosed as not being the
			 actual mileage.
(3) ODOMETER
			 DISCLOSURE OF VEHICLE OPERATED WITH MALFUNCTIONING OR INOPERATIVE ODOMETER. If
			 a motor vehicle continues to be operated between the time its odometer
			 malfunctions and the time the odometer is repaired or replaced, the transferor
			 may disclose that the odometer reading reflects the actual mileage only if all
			 of the following conditions are satisfied:
(a)
			 The malfunctioning odometer is repaired or replaced within 30 days after the
			 date the odometer began to malfunction.
(b) A good faith estimate can be made of the
			 miles traveled by the motor vehicle between the time the odometer malfunctioned
			 and the time the odometer was repaired or replaced.
(c) The repaired or replaced odometer is
			 calibrated to reflect the vehicle's mileage reading which was on the odometer
			 at the time it malfunctioned, plus the number of miles which the motor vehicle
			 was operated between the time of the odometer's malfunctioning and the time of
			 its repair or replacement. If, under these circumstances, the odometer is not
			 calibrated as described in this paragraph, the odometer reading shall be
			 disclosed by the transferor as not being the actual mileage.