Pam
K,#2Consumer Suggestion
Fri, June 20, 2003
occurred at some point in the prior transfers of the Vehicle. If, at the time you bought the vehicle, the odometer was in fact NOT working, the Odometer Disclosure you signed at the dealership should have read, "true miles unknown". All cars less than 10 years old require this disclosure at time of sale. It's a Federal law. You could do a "carfax" report online, on the VIN number (Vehicle Identification Number) and find out the previous milege records and previous Stes of registration, and sometimes more. It is a BIGTIME Federal offense to mess with odometers, or to not do the disclosure accurately to a buyer. Another great clue will be the "repair service record" through the manufacturer, kept while the car was under warranty (at least first 36,000/3years). Anytime Plymouth original warranty work would have been done by a dealer, the odometer reading would have been placed in a Plymouth database to qualify the repair as still under warranty. I suggest you contact a new car Plymouth dealer service department in person, and ask for a report to be run on their Repair/maintenence/recall database. They can print it out for you. Good luck. If you can document that odo fraud has occured, so should have the dealership. You can propbably get the dealer to unwind the deal and the loan should be null and voided, in writing.