Assertion: odometer | /r/HasProperty | tampered
Facets:
value: by inspecting it
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: What To Do If Odometer Has Been Tampered With
text: One of the easiest ways to see if the odometer has been tampered is to look at the vehicle’s service history.
text: Another way to tell if an odometer has been tampered with is if there are switches that don’t seem to belong on the dashboard.
text: Even experts need to examine the car closely before being able to detect whether the car's odometer has been tampered with.
text: Unfortunately, if the odometer was ever tampered with, then it is impossible to know the mileage on the car.
text: You can see if the odometer has been tampered with by inspecting it.
text: When consumers can provide evidence that their odometer was tampered with they stand to collect restitution from the seller for the cost of the vehicle and legal fees.
text: Odometers are often equipped with means for indicating if they have been tampered with, i.e., set back to make it appear that a vehicle has traveled fewer miles than it actually has.
text: How would someone find out if their odometer was tampered with, though?
text: Before digital odometers were introduced a few decades ago, it was a real concern whether an odometer had been tampered with.
text: If there are “heel spots” on the driver’s side floor mat or carpet yet the odometer seems too low for such wear, consider the possibility that the odometer has been tampered with.
text: If the tires are original, worn down to 2/32nds, and the odometer is less than 30,000 miles, it may be possible the odometer has been tampered with.
text: Without this provision, O'Keefe's dealer could claim ignorance, saying he didn't know the odometer had been tampered with.
text: It is unlawful for any person knowingly to tamper with, adjust, alter, set back, disconnect, or fail to connect an odometer of a motor vehicle, or to cause any of the foregoing to occur to an odometer of a motor vehicle, so as to reflect a lower mileage than the motor vehicle has actually been driven, or to supply any written odometer statement knowing such statement to be false or based on mileage figures reflected by an odometer that has been tampered with or altered, except as hereinafter provided.
text: It is unlawful for any person to knowingly possess, sell, or offer for sale, conceal, or dispose of in this state a motor vehicle with an odometer that has been tampered with so as to reflect a lower mileage than the motor vehicle has actually been driven, except as provided in paragraph (2)(a) and subsection (3).
text: Any motor vehicle with an odometer that has been tampered with so as to reflect a lower mileage than the motor vehicle has actually been driven may not be knowingly operated on the streets and highways of the state in such condition unless the certificate of title and registration certificate of the vehicle have been conspicuously stamped so as to indicate the displayed mileage is inaccurate and written notice has been placed on the vehicle as described in paragraph (2)(a).
text: It is impossible for a layman to know if the odometer has been tampered with,” he said.
text: It is illegal for anyone to tamper with an odometer or to sell a vehicle knowing that the odometer has been tampered with.
text: As the dealership is looking over your car they discover that the odometer has been tampered with, causing it to show about 50,000 fewer miles on it than it actually has.
text: If the numerical keys seem loose, unevenly spaced, or too freely moving then it could be a sign that the odometer has been tampered with.
text: They can help determine if the odometer has been tampered with.
text: If someone is trying to sell you a vehicle that is less than ten years and the odometer is not working the vehicle has possibly been in an accident or the odometer may have been tampered with.