a guy i know did this buy buying a whole guage cluster and kept changing it in and out twice a year before oil changes so he was doing about 6k mles a year when in reality he was doing over 20k but used the old cluster to change his oil at mobil oil places and then change it himselves in the times between its not really hard to do

 

Honestly I kno a guy in miami who doesnt go thru all that he just hooks up his computer and bam im still waiting for ops answer on checking brakes and tires

 

Holy hell so much fail in this thread it's just stupid. Op stop crying about 3k miles as stated prolly was a dmv screw up happens all the time. Stop whining about the cluster and explain why u think it was wrecked. Most likely your just paranoid and seeing something that isint there.

 

Didnt get to read through all the pages but you cant roll back our clusters . You can replace them with a different cluster but that doesnt look like that what happened . Carfax is wrong about the actual mileage all the time . I would say there are more carfax reports wrong about actual mileage than right . If a car goes into inspection or gets registered thats what they go by and the information is just written down by the machanic that checked . They write wrong numbers down all the time and even round the mileage up or down in cases . From what it looks like your worrying over nothing . Dont always trust a carfax report to be dead accurate . It is mainly just to check for major stuff wrong . Also not many people actually have their car serviced by the dealer so thats not to worry about either .

 

I am in exactly the same situation as you. Except I bought my car with approx 55k miles. Got carproof (apparently carproof should be more accurate than carfax in Canada) before buying the car which didn't show much information about the mielage, except title being clean, no reported accidents, etc. After I bought the car, I decided to get carfax and found ~5k discrepancy. I was freaking out for a month due to uncertainty, and still feel like **** about it a year after.

On a side note, I keep hearing that dealerships have equipment to adjust mielage. For example they need to be able to adjust mielage of they replace a cluster, etc. So if dealers are given so much power, theoretically, can't they easily reset the mielage on used cars they sell ?

 

that sucks, but only 3000 is not much for the trouble you are going through. you can roll back any car if you know the right people, but of course it comes with a cost. i dont think the previous owner would pay $300-$500 to only roll it back 3000. thats my 2 cents. good luck!