Saturn with over 690,000 miles?

bumere90 · 02-15-2011, 02:37 PM

Hey folks, I don't wanna get into details how and why did this happen. In brief I ended up accidently buying an 02 Saturn L300 with over 690,000 miles. The car is in almost excellent condition. Now we all now that it is impossible to put that many miles on a 9 year old car. And Satruns don't last that long.
My question is could the car have a faulty ECM or something that could've caused the wrong mileage to appear? What are my options?

Verbiage · 02-15-2011, 02:40 PM

Wakka · 02-15-2011, 02:42 PM

how exactly do you accidentally buy a car?

Verbiage · 02-15-2011, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Wakka

how exactly do you accidentally buy a Saturn?

Fixed.

Seminole · 02-15-2011, 02:43 PM

You bought the car. You keep it. What do you mean what are your options? While highly unsusal, it's not out of the realm of possibility that a 9 year old car has that many miles.

NBRider88 · 02-15-2011, 02:46 PM

that is a shit load of miles. my pops old diesel Mercedes, a 1995 has over 450k miles

Feyd · 02-15-2011, 02:53 PM

Are you sure you aren't in Austrailia?

If you were the odometer would only read 69 miles... That'd be sweet.

Brunotheboxer · 02-15-2011, 02:56 PM

Now you should mod the fuck out of it. Put a blower on that bitch bro. It would be the ultimate sleeper.

iBoost · 02-15-2011, 04:08 PM

how many miles tuned?

Kroy · 02-15-2011, 04:11 PM

Where's freakazoid? Isn't he the resident Saturn expert?

CollinsE90 · 02-15-2011, 04:16 PM

Thats simple, everyone knows a car with that kind of horse power adds 100 miles to every mile driven. My 330 only has 10k real miles, its such a beast I cant keep the odometer from spiking every time I race a Honda.

Kroy · 02-15-2011, 04:25 PM

^ That's cause VTEC just kicked in, yo!

solefald · 02-15-2011, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Feyd

Are you sure you aren't in Austrailia?

If you were the odometer would only read 69 miles... That'd be sweet.

hahaha. i lol'd pretty hard at this one

bumere90 · 02-15-2011, 04:51 PM

I am thinking about turbo charger

Freakazoid · 02-15-2011, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Kroy

Where's freakazoid? Isn't he the resident Saturn expert?

as the saturn resident expert, I officially say that's not possible for a saturn to have that many miles...

Unless a miracle happened, even these 'touring' demo GM cars only have 60-70k miles every year..

As for what are your options...I don't understand the question. Either you accidentally bought it, or you didn't. Doubt it was even ECM, probably someone fucking around with the odometer that broke it, or some really funky shit

Jaypod · 02-15-2011, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by bumere90

In brief I ended up accidently buying an 02 Saturn L300 with over 690,000 miles.

This is honestly one of the funniest things I have read in a long time

(I am not laughing AT you - just sounds funny!)

I may have finally found a sig - never had one here

Edit - f it I am doing it!

Maestro · 02-15-2011, 05:49 PM

How many mile did it have on it before you put cash down on it. That is the trick I want to know how to do

TK-421 · 02-15-2011, 05:54 PM

wat

bumere90 · 02-15-2011, 08:58 PM

I am a car dealer, and a full time student. Don't have time to go to physical auctions therefore, I bid and buy cars on live auctions only. The speakers were not working on the computer at that time. Initially I was bidding on a 2003 GTI run number 121. When they finished bidding on a 120, they switched to 121 GTI. At that particular moment I was multitasking doing my homework. For some unknown reason they skipped the GTI and began bidding on a 122 Saturn with 690,000+ miles. Because of the bad speakers I missed the part when they switched to 122.

Freakazoid · 02-15-2011, 09:01 PM

there truly is nothing you can do about that then, suck it up and pass it along to someone else for nothing I'd say... it's a recorded mileage too now, which means it's going to be everywhere. you're stuck with it.

mind if I ask which live auction site you're using?

bumere90 · 02-15-2011, 09:04 PM

Manheim, Iaai Copart and more..
I know its my fault and everything. The good thing is it was announced as TMU not actual miles or true miles unknown. The other thing is the car is in Philly...shipping is another 500$ fml.

Freakazoid · 02-15-2011, 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by bumere90

Manheim, Iaai Copart and more..
I know its my fault and everything. The good thing is it was announced as TMU not actual miles or true miles unknown. The other thing is the car is in Philly...shipping is another 500$ fml.

my guess here is someone tried to roll back the odometer and fucked it up big time. and realized they weren't able to (or didn't have the time) to roll it virtually a million miles

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CollinsE90 Where my bitches 749 Rep 1,924 Posts Drives: Cadillac coupe deville Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: street corner checking profits iTrader: (0)	Thats simple, everyone knows a car with that kind of horse power adds 100 miles to every mile driven. My 330 only has 10k real miles, its such a beast I cant keep the odometer from spiking every time I race a Honda. __________________
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Kroy Brigadier General 173 Rep 3,032 Posts Drives: E90 Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Los Angeles, CA iTrader: (1)	^ That's cause VTEC just kicked in, yo!
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bumere90 Grozniy 179 Rep 2,602 Posts Drives: Carless Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: FL iTrader: (12)	I am a car dealer, and a full time student. Don't have time to go to physical auctions therefore, I bid and buy cars on live auctions only. The speakers were not working on the computer at that time. Initially I was bidding on a 2003 GTI run number 121. When they finished bidding on a 120, they switched to 121 GTI. At that particular moment I was multitasking doing my homework. For some unknown reason they skipped the GTI and began bidding on a 122 Saturn with 690,000+ miles. Because of the bad speakers I missed the part when they switched to 122.
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Freakazoid Captain 181 Rep 962 Posts Drives: Saturn Redline Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Pittsburgh iTrader: (0)	there truly is nothing you can do about that then, suck it up and pass it along to someone else for nothing I'd say... it's a recorded mileage too now, which means it's going to be everywhere. you're stuck with it. mind if I ask which live auction site you're using?
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bumere90 Grozniy 179 Rep 2,602 Posts Drives: Carless Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: FL iTrader: (12)	Manheim, Iaai Copart and more.. I know its my fault and everything. The good thing is it was announced as TMU not actual miles or true miles unknown. The other thing is the car is in Philly...shipping is another 500$ fml.
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