Then they are NOT OEM tires.

I'm still rolling on my OEM fronts at 36,000 miles.

 

it's easy to roll back. all you have to do is disconnect a wire (which I wont get into) and you drive around how ever long you want then when it's time to sell it, connect that wire back.

simple, but illegal. If you're so curious, I would take the tachometer assembly out and check if anything has been touched. then trace your step back to the entire wire assembly that's attached to the tachometer.

but you will never know if they did what I think they did.

This is a similar way to Evo as well and most cars.

 

^ If you only cut the output wire the ecu still knows the true mileage. And if it has been rolled the DMV will make them change the title to TMU (true mileage unkown) and the price will drop significantly.

Rolling back odometers isn't as easy as it used to be. You can't just take apart the dash and physically roll the numbers with a small screwdriver. Most cars now have several signals that are sent to the ecu to report mileage. Unless they were able to roll all of them without the ecu knowing then I wouldn't worry about it. A dealer should be able to tell if you are still worried. A low mileage S2000 isn't that hard to find, they are primarily second or third cars that see limited use.

 

I've got 22.000 miles. Not that unusual to find low miles on this car. If you have other reasons to suspect the seller is dishonest, then walk away.

 

It might not be easy to roll back the original odometer, but switching out the whole cluster is another way, isn't it?

I am going to talk to him about the tires. He claims to have never changed the fronts and the original owner sold it at 10k miles (reported on carfax),so I doubt he replaced them at 10k

and he has no service/maintenance records.


would a contract with him agreeing that he never tampered with the odometer be a good thing to do? so that if I do find out that it was tampered with, I can take him to court or something.

 

not just the wire, it's something else.

I'll go look to make sure tonight. I better not say it, because this is something a guy at honda told me.

 

Oh yeah, S0-2's are original. I changed rears at 10,500 and front and rears at 21,000.

 

There has to be something else about this car that makes you uneasy. I cannot believe you are working so hard to disprove an odometer reading. If it makes you that nervous walk away and buy a new one.

 

Walk away.

 

That makes sense. Honda has to have a way to set the mileage when they replace whatever unit keeps count. I didn't see the thread discussing this. Do you know whether the mileage is stored in the ECU or elsewhere?