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'The car companies want to put small guy out of business.'

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[-] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 8 points 2 months ago

You can't really do that with diagnostic tools, but you can change the vehicle mileage. I see a lot of cars coming from shady car lots with under 100k miles that look like they have over 300k on them.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago
[-] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

Like what? It's all readily available information, you can buy tools to do it off ebay and amazon.

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