> There are federal and state laws against this procedure for
> a very good
> reason(used car dealers for one) .
It's possible there are laws in some states, but there are no Federal laws
that specifically prohibit changing the odometer reading. In CA, it is only
illegal if you then represent to a buyer that the car has fewer miles than
you know it does. (This is called fraud.) On the back of the title that
you sign to sell someone a car, there is a checkbox for "mileage unknown".
As long as you check that when you sell the car (or never sell the car), you
can do anything to the odometer that you feel like.
Now if you're a used car dealer, and you are found modifying an odometer
reading, that may be taken as evidence that you were planning to defraud
someone, which combined with other evidence, might be used to convict you of
fraud. But the crime is still not tampering, it's only "tampering with the
intent to defraud".
Randall
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