How to Boost my odomoeter asap!!!!!

[2007jeep]

I need to boost up the mileage on my 2007 jeep Liberty ASAP, i need about 20K rolled up any ideas?????

[MagicRat]

Are you sure?

Perhaps if you could tell us why, we might suggest an alternative. What you propose will decrease the value of your Jeep and possibly boost your insurance rates, both of which would be unfair and costly to you.

[curtis73]

Altering an odometer in any way is a federal felony. I'm not much for legal issues since I conduct myself in a moral fashion, but you have to understand our trepidation when a new member randomly asks how to commit fraud.

There are legal ways of handling it, like going to a certified shop to have the work done, but it will always have an altered paperwork stuck to it for the rest of its life.

[MagicRat]

Originally Posted by curtis73

Altering an odometer in any way is a federal felony.

That's a good point. I am used to hearing about rolling back as being illegal. I did not consider adding mileage would also be illegal.
However, adding mileage would be deceptive, for whatever reason, so I have edited my above post answer accordingly.

The only legal way to do so then would be (like in Ferris Beuler's Day Off) to raise the rear of the car, place it on jackstands, start the engine, drop it in 'drive' and add weight to the throttle until the speed read, oh, about 60 mph.

Then let the rear wheels spin for about 2 weeks and you have added 20k.

[curtis73]

Yeah, I have actually altered a speedo in a perceptively moral manner when I was in college. I made a custom dashboard with new gauges for a 66 Bonneville. At my request, my friend at VDO custom programmed my new speedo to read 103k to reflect accurate mileage.

Its like getting a license to distribute pain killers. It gives you the legal power to give it to addicts, but its your moral duty to avoid it.

I'm not much for the law, and I don't subscribe to many of the things considered moral by today's society, but I gotta draw the line when someone asks how to alter the records of a vehicle I might buy Priorities

[MagicRat]

Originally Posted by curtis73

but its your moral duty to avoid it.

Well, it's a matter of 'do unto others'.

I have spent some time in my life shopping for used cars. I am astounded and dejected to see the prevalence of rolled back odos, mostly in used car lots but sometimes privately, too.

Some of the examples I saw were obviously ridiculous but many buyers who don't know better (and that's not their fault) were taken in.

I would not wish that on anyone. This trend has directly affected me because these days, unless I am buying a vehicle for parts, I only buy low mileage vehicles from private sellers who have kept repair records and receipts which show mileage.