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Backstory
A adjacent person of excavation drives a 2018 Swift diesel, 1 of the earliest new-gen cars that were delivered successful South Delhi. The 2 of america sat unneurotic for luncheon yesterday aft a spread of astir 6 months. During the customary abbreviated thrust of each other's cars earlier leaving for home, I glanced upon the antithetic odometer speechmaking of his car. The 6-year-old car had conscionable 8,000 unusual clicks connected the odometer! 
From there, it didn't instrumentality agelong for our speech astir life, business, and question to drift towards the automotive scene. On further questioning, my person revealed that the odometer has been rolled backmost and the existent speechmaking is determination astir 2,07,000 km. Rolled-back odometers aren't uncommon successful Delhi, but it was the archetypal clip I saw tampering to specified an extent. Mind you, this car looks cared for, with nary rattles and everything shipshape. My person adjacent has a elaborate past (from FNG) of work and repairs decently documented successful a file. So, it's not that helium is preparing to propulsion a accelerated 1 connected an unsuspecting lawsuit astatine the clip of sale. One tin marque retired that nary corners person been chopped erstwhile it comes to maintenance. But erstwhile I asked astir the rigged odometer, the reply was adjacent much puzzling.
Apparently, a 6-digit speechmaking bothers him! So each clip the odometer crosses 1,00,000 km, helium gets it rolled backmost to 1,000 km. He has done this doubly already. I couldn't judge it! Personally speaking, I americium ever anxious to deed mileage milestones connected my cars. In fact, if the car is simply a fewer kilometres abbreviated of touching a fancy fig connected the odometer, I often instrumentality detours to screen the further region earlier reaching my destination. My telephone is afloat of odometer pictures, close from the mandatory click each 10,000 km to numbers that are conscionable excessively bully to disregard (say 12,345 km), and what not.
Coming backmost to the topic, the Swift shows nary signs of giving up contempt having crossed the 2,00,000 km people successful a abbreviated span. My person plans to usage the car till the extremity of its validity play (4 years successful Delhi) earlier scrapping it. No points for guessing that the car volition marque different travel oregon 2 to the odometer 'specialist' by that time.
Although the ownership has been uneventful truthful far, helium seems to beryllium paranoid astir the car's reliability. He says that it is simply a benignant of intelligence obstruction that starts to fuss him erstwhile the car crosses six digits connected the odometer. The rigged odometer lets him thrust without immoderate worries connected those 2000 km trips, which often see travelling astatine unusual hours. It is his mode of getting implicit the changeless fearfulness of the car breaking down. I laughed it disconnected and jokingly told him however beingness would beryllium if helium developed a akin fearfulness for his slope balance. 
Does it marque sense?
On the mode backmost home, I was opening to find immoderate logic successful his argument. Psychological oregon not, determination is an underlying origin that makes maine much sedate and cautious with cars that are older successful presumption of kilometres. While I don't thrust with the thought of an impending breakdown, I hold that an unusually precocious odometer speechmaking volition adhd to my accent portion driving. There volition beryllium times erstwhile I won't beryllium capable to caput retired without 2nd thoughts connected the car's reliability oregon thrust it the mode I want, which brings maine to the taxable of this thread.
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Does a precocious odometer speechmaking fuss you? I'm definite it does astatine immoderate point, though opinions tin disagree based connected idiosyncratic tolerances, past experiences, conveyance segments and adjacent marque perceptions. The reasons tin beryllium multiple, specified arsenic boredom from driving the aforesaid car, a driblet successful resale value, reliability concerns, and truthful on.
For me, 1,50,000 km seems to beryllium the constituent wherever the excitement of having 6 digits connected the odometer volition soon beryllium overshadowed by the car's decreasing reliability. Beyond this point, it volition beryllium precise hard to unrecorded without a low-mileage secondary/backup car successful the garage.
I'd emotion to cognize if/what others deliberation astir this. Ending the station with links to immoderate related threads:
