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CarStuff

Can people really hack their odometers?

CarStuff

iHeartPodcasts

History, Leisure, Automotive

4.4584 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2010

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Odometers log a vehicle's total mileage, as well as mileage for specific amounts of time. This can be very useful for maintenance, but how does it work? Can people actually tamper with its results? Tune in and find out.

Transcript

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0:39.3

how stuff works.com hey ben what's happening no much scotterman auto editor at howstuffworks

0:51.4

com how you doing thank you ben bolin the video editor here at how stuffworks.com. How you doing? Thank you, Ben Boland, the video editor here at how stuff works.com also. That was an awkward intro, isn't it? That's cool. That's all right. It's different. You got to mix it up. Yeah, we've got to mix it up. We're keeping track of things. Yeah. I got something I want to talk about today that it may not on the surface sound too interesting. Is it about your personal life? Because you know we're on the air. In a little bit.

1:27.5

Okay. that's something I want to talk about today that it may not on the surface sound too interesting. Is it about your personal life? Because you know we're on the air. In a little bit. In a little way it is. I've got to measure my property pretty soon. I really do. I have to walk off the feet, you know, from the road and figure out where my property. Because we're getting to the springtime here, and I got to do yard work,

1:29.9

and I get to figure out where the heck I own and what trees I should be trimming and what I shouldn't be trimming because...

1:31.2

Where the lawnmower stops?

1:32.4

That's the neighbors.

1:33.1

I don't want to cut down the neighbor's tree by accident. Sure. Exactly. So I got to figure this stuff out. And I was thinking about measuring these distances and how I'm going to do it because I don't have the tools to do that.

1:42.7

Okay.

1:43.1

Turns out that's kind of the start of a way to do that.

1:48.0

You know, that was... distances and how I'm going to do it because I don't have the tools to do that. Okay. Turns out that's kind of the start of a way to do that.

1:48.0

You know, that was the problem that was put in front of somebody a long time ago.

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