2005 Volvo S40

[R=G]

What I do is look on autotrader.com to see listings of cars I am interested. I can compare private seller's prices with dealership and used car prices for the same model.
There's not too many good cars by Toyota and Honda in the $5000 range unless they are in the late 1990s or early 2000s and have high miles.

This car is a pretty good deal, but the low miles has me thinking it's an odometer rollback. It's a digital odometer.
Check out this 2003 Mazda Protege on Autotrader

Concerning car mileage, how would u be able to trick the car fax? They update mileage for every service/oil check throughout a car's timeline. Trust me...I've looked at dozens of car faxes over the last week alone.

 

[unit321]

Concerning car mileage, how would u be able to trick the car fax? They update mileage for every service/oil check throughout a car's timeline. Trust me...I've looked at dozens of car faxes over the last week alone.

You can't trick car fax. The mileage entered cannot be changed when certain activities get reported, any DMV transactions like sales, accident claims, service performed at a dealership. So if you bought a car with 50,000 but it was sold two years ago with 49,000 miles, then that would be red flag.

 

[R=G]

That's what I figured...now since you know how to fix shyt, probably a common sense question but a new engine resets the odometer?