What is an original mile

[AWB]

What does an orig mile look like compared to an non orig mile?
my car may have a few non orig miles

 

[Nick1994]

Original miles means the odometer hasn't been tempered with and it still has the original engine and transmission, without a rebuild.

 

[AWB]

How can you see non orig miles?

 

[CKN]

I think this term hearkens back when odometers only went to 100,000 miles....

 

[AWB]

So if I disconnect the spedo cable, the miles then are non orig?
all miles before me can be non orig a buddy says, all the miles I put on are orig
if I go to Canada, I’m not putting miles on, now what?

 

[Jimmy_Russells]

I always assumed it meant on the original engine/trans - ie they hadn't been replaced

 

[joekingcorvette]

You have to own a Corvette built before 1970. Most of them have less than 75,000 original miles yeah right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[PimTac]

 

[mk378]

So if I disconnect the spedo cable, the miles then are non orig?

Yes, if you were to drive any with the cable disconnected, the odometer would read less than actual miles traveled. In many states, a seller is required to flag this condition on the title. The title not having this flag is what a dealer would call "original miles."

 

[BMWTurboDzl]

What does an orig mile look like compared to an non orig mile?
my car may have a few non orig miles

An original mile is measured distance of the 2 steps taken by the Roman soldier Podtiatrise at the command of emperor Marcus Vipsanius Agripp. This distances times 1,000 is an original mile.

 

[ron17571]

You have to own a Corvette built before 1970. Most of them have less than 75,000 original miles yeah right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I actually think this is normal. Many corvettes are rarely driven and garage kept. In many places at the first hint of snow, they are put in a garage and covered.

 

[ron17571]

Many years ago speedometers were easy to turn backward. I noticed at the local u-pull it yard that many instrument clusters are gone. I was told that people buy them to turn back miles on a car.

 

[joekingcorvette]

On old cars you can tell a speedometer has been tampered with if the numbers are not perfectly even. I agree with others that many people would disconnect the speedometer or buy a reducer. A reducer was a little gear you could change and instead of reading 80 mph the vehicle speedometer would show 40 mph and the miles would only accumulate half as fast. Some shops would charge about $50 to have the speedometer reduced or rolled back. Just like Walmart's rollbacks. Ha!

 

[kschachn]

You think?

He also came up with snorting brake fluid in another thread, plus a couple other little items.

 

[Oro_O]

 

[BMW Dom]

You think?

He also came up with snorting brake fluid in another thread, plus a couple other little items.

Probably someone's troll account.

 

[Dadillac]

You have to own a Corvette built before 1970. Most of them have less than 75,000 original miles yeah right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And 100% of them have never seen rain

Don

 

[AWB]

tampering is un orig miles? 130k can be all orig miles too.
the term orig miles is used way too much.

 

[01rangerxl]

Yes, cars with original miles usually run out good and are like new. Good work car. Might can can't get title.

 

[Blocker]

tampering is un orig miles? 130k can be all orig miles too.
the term orig miles is used way too much.

My car has non-original kilometres