CAUSED THE PLANE TO GO DOWN. NEW AT FOUR A WARNING FOR ANYONE LOOKING TO BUY A CAR. AS WE HEAD INTO THE NEW YEAR, WESH TWO HAS NEW DATA SHOWING SOME PEOPLE ARE ROLLING ODOMETERS BACK MORE OFTEN. AND ...

Buying a car should feel like a smart move, not a setup for disappointment. But for thousands of buyers every year, that “great deal” turns out to be a costly mistake—because the mileage isn’t real.

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It can be easy to get caught by a scam when purchasing a used vehicle, with unscrupulous dealers employing a huge variety of tactics to artificially inflate the value of the cars that they're selling.

Data from Carfax show that almost 2 and a half million cars on the road right now are suspected to have their odometers rolled back, and it only takes seconds to reverse miles on a vehicle. If you're ...

MADISON, Wis. -- Monday is National Odometer Day, and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation Division of Motor Vehicles said odometer rollbacks accounted for nearly $37 million in fraud loss in ...

(WSAW) - The Wisconsin DOT Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is reminding people to verify their vehicle mileage before buying a car. Fraud through “odometer rollback,” which is when someone changes ...

CARFAX estimates tens of thousands of vehicles in the state are suspected of having their odometers rolled back, a scam that experts say can happen in seconds. The owner of Atlanta Speedometer in ...

When getting behind the wheel of a used car, one can reasonably expect some things to be amiss that the dealership didn't mention. As an older vehicle, wear and tear is guaranteed, and certain issues ...