Purchasing a F150 with questionable mileage

[1QWK96GT]

Good morning,

I am looking at buying a F-150 from a guy and it is a smoking deal but I seriously question the mileage. The carfax does show mileage discrepancies which I am somewhat okay with. My question is how do I find out what the mileage is roughly? I thought only ford technicians could mess with mileage as it is stored in the PCM/Cluster/BCM which all ties to the keys. If the mileage is more thats fine but wanna make sure it doesnt have 300k plus. Is there a way to find out the true mileage without looking at the cluster? I tried using a scanner but it is showing or pulling what the cluster is showing.

 

[1QWK96GT]

I also found documentation of the original owner in the glove box. Would it be weird to call the guy to ask roughly what the mileage truly is? Maybe he was the one behind the odometer being low?

 

[DSG2003Mach1]

would help a lot to know what year truck you're looking at.

someone could swap the cluster and associated parts and keep everything working and the milage would be wrong

post a screen shot of the car fax stuff? They can easily get the stuff wrong too - my mom's suburban had around 85k miles when she sold it, I was looking up the trade value and it pulled up showing an odometer reading of close to 200k!

 

[1QWK96GT]

its a 2014 F150.

 

[DSG2003Mach1]

whats the dash show now?

 

[1QWK96GT]

19,233.

 

[DSG2003Mach1]

thats stupid low for its age but I guess it could happen. Maybe its because it doesnt have the original sale and mileage? Interesting theres no other mileage history

 

[1QWK96GT]

call the previous owner and speak with him? but what if the truck was repo'd from him he may not want to talk about it.

 

[COOL COBRA]

I’d look elsewhere if it doesn’t feel right. Why take the chance?

 

[SolarYellow]

In the words of Remo Gaggi:

Look... why take a chance? At least, that's the way I feel about it.

 

[sleek98]

You can change the mileage by swapping clusters or sending it off to a company. If you swap clusters you have to do a key relearn with the ford IDS tool.

If the truck doesn't look brand new then someone has swapped the cluster, however it would cost a few grand to do. So its not really cheap to change.

 

[andymarkv]

No offense...but if you've seen it, it should be pretty obvious if it is an actual 19K mile truck.
Is it super beat? Why are you questioning it? Just the Carfax? What condition is the brake pedal/steering wheel/arm rests?
Got any pics?
I've seen low mile trucks that were TRASHED but there was a unusual circumstance. (Like a yard truck at a business, farm, school, municipality)

 

[LS WUT]

Mileage discrepancies sometimes come from the DMV. I once had some fat heffer try to put mileage unknown on my Redfire cobra because she didn’t want to walk outside to verify the mileage herself. They did this to me on my foxbody too. However with that I wasn’t going to put up a right, I knew it didn’t matter to me if it said mileage exempt.

 

[Lambeau]

Can you get an oasis report from a Ford dealer? Use as a piece of the mileage puzzle.

 

[365 Saleen]

When I worked at a Ford Dealership and we ordered a replacement cluster, you had to fill in the requested mileage. I suppose it would be easy to get a friend at a Dealership to fudge that number, but as stated, those clusters are not cheap.

 

[DSG2003Mach1]

When I worked at a Ford Dealership and we ordered a replacement cluster, you had to fill in the requested mileage. I suppose it would be easy to get a friend at a Dealership to fudge that number, but as stated, those clusters are not cheap.

Or you buy one out a wrecked truck

 

[13COBRA]

Either post the VIN or PM me with it.

 

[93Cobra#2771]

Surely you can look at the truck and tell if it truly has mileage that low on it.

 

[1QWK96GT]

the question isnt "does this truck have this mileage" because I am certain it doesnt. I would just like a rough idea of how many miles are actually on it. 100k? 200k? 300k? 400k?

 

[13COBRA]

the question isnt "does this truck have this mileage" because I am certain it doesnt. I would just like a rough idea of how many miles are actually on it. 100k? 200k? 300k? 400k?

...........so again, either post the VIN or send it to me.