Gary:
I have set the mileage to zero on many of the cars I have restored. I feel
that as long as you tell any buyer that you did this there is no crime.
Besides like you said it will be like new anyway. What is the difference if
you buy an NOS one and put it in your car.
Thats my 2 cents
Bob Kamholtz
ECOD
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Klein <gklein@toad.net>
To: TR Newsgroup <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, March 26, 1999 20:19
Subject: Odometer Resetting - An Ethical Question??
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>Fellow Scions,
>
>I've been working at restoring my '75 TR6 for a little over 2 years now
>and it's been a long haul but the light at the end of the tunnel is
>starting to get a bit brighter, day by day. As the dash and gauges will
>be going back together in the near future, I've been pondering the
>question of what to do, if any, about the odometer?
>
>I will have completely rebuilt just about everything when I'm done
>(engine, tranny, clutch, body, paint, interior, etc, etc,) and I intend
>on keeping and using this car for quite some time, 5-10 years at least.
>The speedometer read 16K and a few miles when I bought it (I assumed
>116K+) and I put a few miles on it before I tore it down. Upon
>disassembly of the speedometer to clean the face (BTW the Endust trick
>works great) I noticed a handwritten date and what appears to be a
>mileage statement written in pencil on the inside of the back cover.
>The date was long after 1975, '87 if I recall, and the mileage was
>somewhere in the 80K range. Needless to say, I don't know how many
>miles were on this car before I got it and perhaps the speedometer is
>not the original either.
>
>So here's my question for which I'd like to get your collective
>reactions and thoughts: As it's now about to be reborn, any thoughts
>about resetting the odometer back to all zero's? If it can be done, how
>does one do it? (it wasn't obvious to me when I took it apart and I
>guess I don't have a criminal mind)
>
>I'm not interested in any legal aspects here, just the ethics. I'll
>post a summary when all the correspondence is done.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Gary
>Digest
>'75 TR6 Undergoing Remanufacture
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