Jackson Jambalaya

Not much time for the crime.

This is still done in this day and age? This was easily done with mechanical odometers, but I'd think it more difficult with the digital ones that I assume are on the vast majority of cars these days. Then again, maybe these guys were buying old models for that very reason. So anyway, does anyone know what would be involved in turning back a digital odometer? Asking for a friend.

This is kind of an outdated crime, but your mileage may vary.

Attn 9:57 If you don't think 4 years and 10 months in jail is a long time, maybe you ought to get into that business.

Dem longgrears is gonna be useful in prison.

This was common practice for generations. I remember one particular shop/service station on Highway 82 in Greenville...You could pull up, tell him how many miles you wanted 'rolled off' and he would tell you to come back in thirty or forty minutes. Ten thousand, twenty five thousand, fifty thousand. The cost was twenty five bucks.

Of course this was before the invention of the digital odometers. Not sure how they might roll those back. All it took 'back then' was a tool, sort of like a dental instrument, with a crooked wire that would center on the digit wheels and prick them backwards, a thousand at a time.

This has been typical in the auction industry for as long as auctions have existed. I doubt there is a used car dealer in America who has NOT employed this "business tool". And many new car dealers as well, who sell used vehicles.

There were more than a couple of dealers downtown back in the day who got the odometers on their cars rolled back on a regular basis.

Meanwhile this morning I received my 25th million call about my car's extended warranty. Those people should be in prison with a 99 year sentence for telephone harassment. Then again, may be justice would be better served if I just took them up on their offer. My cars are an 05 and an 07.

KF @ 9:16 - I would hazard a guess that it was EVERY dealership 'downtown' including the one with the Corvette high in the air. And including the ones who have since moved out to the interstate or to Brandon.

@ 7:53 - Older models does not seem to be the case, as you suggest.

"...and under their company Southern Auto Buyers LLC, bought a large number of late model, high mileage vehicles from numerous sources, and thereafter illegally altered the odometers..."

But, I, Like you, am not sure they (or anybody else in these parts) had enough sense to know how to 'roll back' a digital instrument.

As a victim of this crime, I do not think the son got nearly enough time. They cost me thousands of dollars!

9:28: That is a very interesting comment. Very interesting. Intriguing even. Yup. Very interesting.

This is only a fraction of the dirty deals Mark Longgrear has done. This is LONG over due.

Modifying digital odometer readings are the easiest. There's at least 100 YouTube videos that show how to do it. Imagine having 250k miles on a 2015 Tacoma, rolling it back to 70k, and selling it for $19k

It's almost like being a Wall Street Stock Broker.

Almost.

In digital odometers it is a common practice called "Digital Odometer Correction" and it is really very simple.

They get corrected A LOT

@11:07 is correct. If Mark Longgrear went to prison for every dirty deal he has done, he would be getting about 6000 years in prison. He can't make money in a clean and reputable fashion. He always has to try and screw somebody.

Shame on you, classmate posting at 8:20 AM.
I too know Mark from our CA days, and he has NOT been a con-artist his whole life. I do hate whatever caused him to think he had to take this route. You truly don't care for his family and have no business mentioning their names.

to 3:28 pm,
I,too< grew up in Canton and knew Ducky and Mark. Mark was nothing like his dad. Ducky turned wrenches on cars for many, many people and did an honest job. Mark, well Mark took a different path. He has always operated in a shady manner and it's sad to see him pass that on to his son.

Mark was dishonest. Sorry you cannot face that fact.

New dealers back in the day would disengage the odometer/speedometer until it was put on the lot to be sold. So when the owner's wife would be rolling in a new car every 6 months.....no miles to show for it. I remember someone who got pulled over for speeding, told the trooper "sorry officer, but my speedometer is not hooked up..." and got off without a ticket. There's a reason laws were passed.

If Zac were held responsible for all the crap he’s done he’d be facing more time than dad. Most selfish two peas in a pod I’ve ever known.