#mileage
5 posts in Car Diagnostics blog about "mileage" — OBD-II diagnostics, DTC codes, repair. ← All posts
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Vehicle history: what to check before you even go to view it
Half the bad cars can be filtered out without leaving home. What a VIN reveals and what the car itself adds.
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Service history: telling a real one from a fabricated one
A service book is the easiest document in a car to forge. What can be verified independently, and why counters inside the modules beat stamps on paper.
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High-mileage cars: what actually matters and what no longer does
Two hundred thousand miles is neither a death sentence nor a guarantee of trouble. Which components decide a car's fate at that mileage, what you can stop worrying about, and why service history beats the odometer figure.
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Ex-taxi and car-sharing vehicles: how to spot one and what it means for a buyer
Taxi mileage wears a car differently from private use: more engine hours per mile, more cycles, less warm running. The signs, and which components suffer first.
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Kia Rio: what fails at which mileage — a schedule rather than a list
The Rio shares its engine family with the Hyundai Accent, so the parts list is common to both. The difference is when each item appears — and that schedule is more useful than the list itself.