Wondering if there are ways to tell how/if our beautiful coupes have rolled over 100,000 miles? Worn clutch/brake pedal pads? Mine look beautiful at 83,000 miles, or is it 183,000 miles?
Many states here require the odometer reading to be put on the application for a new title when a sale is made leaving a trail of mileage which should show if it's been rolled back. But this won't help for cars that have a long single ownership.Interesting thought!
thinking about this, i would consider that to do this, one must look at elements of a car that degrade over distance travelled, and not by time.
So that limits to things that wear such as pistons, brake discs, etc.
Indeed also seats wear over time, but they also suffer from time (=sun exposure + geographical location). seat with 100.000 miles stored indoor in Sweden will look better then seats with 100.000 miles from outside storing in Texas.
Dilemma is that anything can be replaced. Brake discs for instance live about 100.000 miles (plus minus 75.000).
Wear parts inside the engine can suffer from more or less wear due to not enough/incorrect grade/too old oil.
I think that timing chain or sprocket would be good indicators as they have a sort of constant wear, as they are, i think, not influenced by time or lubrication. (perhaps by driving style?)
However that would need a certain aspect to be measured (e.g. depth of the teeth of the sprocket), but it also needs an esthablished relation between miles vs that specific wear mechanism.
Perhaps the best route is to track previous owners. But I understand that it could be difficult as well.
The reason that there is no simple answer: many people wonder the same thing when the buy a second hand car - To date no good (easy) indicator has been identified; thus we have a law in the Netherlands against fiddling with the Odo meter for sales purposes.
For those states that require an odo reading (my state is one of them), how do you access that "trail of mileage"?Many states here require the odometer reading to be put on the application for a new title when a sale is made leaving a trail of mileage which should show if it's been rolled back. But this won't help for cars that have a long single ownership.
Perhaps what matters the most is the ownership profile, that is, an estimate of the years each owner had the car for and the miles each drove. If you have that chain of custody through repair receipts and a log book, then mileage can be extrapolated and it is hard to hide odometer replacement and tampering.Wondering if there are ways to tell how/if our beautiful coupes have rolled over 100,000 miles? Worn clutch/brake pedal pads? Mine look beautiful at 83,000 miles, or is it 183,000 miles?