I am thinking about buying an Audi. The person who owned it said he has the engine rebuilt and swapped out ecu tuning chips from another Audi. As a result he said the odometer reading has changed and reads a higher mileage. Is this possbile? I ran a carfax on the car and it shows the mileage is as it states on the odometer, but the owner is telling me it is less. Could there be an error on carfax?
Will rebuilding an engine and swapping ecu chips with another car change odometer reading?
That seller is feeding you a line of crap!
I would look elsewhere. With today's economy, great deals can be found.
Will rebuilding an engine and swapping ecu chips with another car change odometer reading?
no,the odometer reading comes from the chip in the dash unit so if its showing lower miles he,s changed something ,that might be a car to stay away from,because its hard telling how many miles it really has on it,its been tampered with and that's really against the law now days,good luck.
NO
Nope.
He's full of BULL SHIP WRECK.
The odometer reading is stored in a non-volatile memory chip in the dash package, and is updated every second while running. While I suppose it is possible to change it, what you describe shouldn't do it. I'd believe the actual mileage shown...btw, Carfax gets it's info from %26quot;official%26quot; records, like DMV registrations/titles, incident/accident reports and repair invoices from participating companies.
