PROBLEM SOLVERS: Conflicting stats spotlight mileage mishap for truck owner - Fox17
– A Coopersville man bought a truck he thought was reliable from a local dealership, but said when he tried to upgrade to a bigger truck a few months later no one would buy it off him. It was all because of what the CARFAX showed that somewhere along the way the car had its miles turned back by 90,000 miles. When Josh Eisen bought the 2002 Denali in December the mileage on the AutoCheck the dealership ran was 137,000 miles, but according to the CARFAX it had 167,000 miles on it 4 years earlier in 2011. The confusing mileage trail on the 2002 black... Eisen is a single father to three girls, and depended on this nearly $12,000 truck he bought from Lakeland Car Company to support his family. “I’ve had it up until a month a half or two months ago and I was hauling my trailer and it just couldn’t get the job done,” he said. After purchasing the truck in December, he decided he needed a bigger truck 5 months later. He went to a different dealership to trade it in for the truck he needed, but they wouldn’t touch it. “They pulled the CARFAX and that’s when I found out the car is not what they said it was. “The problem is 167,000 miles in 2011 and I purchased the truck in and it had 137,000 miles on it. ”. The CARFAX also flagged a prior crash involving the truck. Source: fox17online.com
