800,000 mile 1984 Honda

When I test drove an Accord on Saturday the salesman who has all the top
awards as the best mentioned that he has a customer with the subject car.
Original engine and transmission. When I said that the guy would have to
drive 40,000 miles a year to get that he said, Yes I guess that's right. I
think he has stretched reality but I know that there's a Volvo that has a
million miles and several diesel Merecedes. But a Honda? Anyone have any
facts?
tnx
Hank

 

I don't know about that car, but I can attest to the fact of a friend who
has a 1992 Accord EX Wagon with 480,000 miles on it. Yeah, I know 35000
miles + per year, but he is a salesman that covers a tri-state area. All
miles on the original engine and transmission!
Howard

 

Not so difficult to do if you:

Fix the car when breaks.
Maintain the car well
and most of the miles are highway.

 

I believe the person is probably telling the truth but would not bet any
money on it. Only the owner of the Honda knows for sure whether he is or
is not telling the truth. All older cars are equipped with odometers that
turn back to zero after 99,999.99 is on the odometer. Anyone that has a
really old Honda could say that it had turned over any grand total of
miles that he wished to lie about.

 

Thanks on the odometer
Hank

 

are you sure there's not a decimal point problem? all hondas that i've
ever seen read xxx,xxx.x. in other words, you can record a million
miles - more than any normal vehicle would ever last.

 

If I recall correctly, I had a '79 Accord hatchback some years ago that had
xxx,xxxx.x odometer.

 

too true, in 89 my fathre got rid of a fiat strada, that he'd clocked
twice (was on about 240,000 miles) and was only 5 years old (he worked
70 miles away, 7 days a week) That was even with the terrible
radiators those cars had.

 

Sorry--I was NOT aware of that fact. I screwed up.

 

Hello,
You are right. I was wrong--sorry. I just thought of one way that the
owner of an older Honda could fake us out in terms of mileage. I once saw
a television show that showed a retired auto salesmen showing how easy it
is to change the odometer numbers on an older car. He hooked up some
device that was connected to an electric drill. The device was connected
to the odometer cable. He turned on the drill and the camera focused on
the odometer. The mileage went from about 80,000 miles down to about
35,000 miles in less than two minutes. You could use the same device and a
drill to move the mileage up to 900,000 miles. Was the person telling the
truth? Only he knows for sure. He might own such a device.

 

And a person would artificially increase the mileage for......what?
Bragging rights? A person would have to be both dishonest & have some
monetary gain to be realized to utilize such a device.
Rich

 

4.6M kil (2.85M) miles.

Kiss it. Nothing beats the old mercedes diesel.

http://www.whnet.com/4x4/diesel.html

 

Rich,
Yes, bragging rights. On a regular basis, I see cars in parking lots that
were mainly purchased for bragging rights. Some examples include the
Lamborghini--one of the models costs $283,000. One of the Porche cars
costs $448,000. I believe that lots of people love the attention they get
when they have a special car.
Jason

 

Yup.
And probably worth every penny.

 

Waiving the right to remain silent, "Steve Bigelow"

One of the cars our son maintained for a very wealthy client is a
1985 Ferrari 288 GTO. It has less than 1,500 original miles. About
six years ago, it was appraised at over $300,000. I have no idea
what it's worth now.

 

I dont think so......

A drill will only have a certain RPM.
A drill would spin to slow to make it go that
many miles in two minutes. I would most likely take
days.

You cant spin an odometer too fast, the gears break.

 

A little while ago, wasn't there a Toyota Corolla on the Letterman show that
was about to turn One Million miles? They brought it on the show, and drove
it around the block a few times to show on tv the millionth mile.

 

I'll be honest with you. My memory does not work as well as it did when I
was younger. It's been several years since I seen it on a television show.
I don't remember the exact details. It's very possible that it took longer
and they used a drill that was set on a speed that would do no damage. For
example, they might have left the drill on for several hours or over night
and merely showed the odometer on film when the drill was started and they
started filming again the following morning. I just remember that I never
trusted odometer readings on used cars after I seen that television show.
Does anyone else know anything about a device that allows used car dealers
to turn back the odometer readings on older cars? If so, please post.

 

Jason wrote:

It is spelled Porsche.

 

I recall a Perry Mason show (from the black and white days) in which a car's
odometer reading had something to do with whether it could have been at the
scene of the murder or some such thing. The "aha" in the show was that the
car in question was an older one (like from the '30s) and the odometer would
turn backward when the car was in reverse. The killer just put the rear axle
on blocks, put the car in reverse and let it idle a while.

I have a big objection to the concept of using a drill to turn back the
odometer anyway. All other objections aside, to turn back an odometer 50,000
miles even in ten hours would require simulating 5000 mph with the drill - a
dubious concept.

Mike