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So, you ever wonder
how all these cars
we just randomly happen
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to buy off the street
run so good for our tests?
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Well, it's not magic, people.
I do it! [laughs]
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So sometimes, I just got
to sit these tests out
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so I can actually make
some stuff happen
behind the scenes.
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I'll catch you
on the flip side, though.
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Don't worry.
I'll be right here.
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All right. You ready
to see if this
speedometer rolls back?
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- [Bisi] Yeah, ready.
- [Tory] All right, let's go.
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This could work.
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People are like,
"What are these idiots doing?"
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Well, I cannot believe
that someone would
actually do this.
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[Tory] What? Wait a minute!
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[narrator] Meet the team...
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We'll be at work in no time.
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This might be the miracle
coolant that everybody's been
searching for.
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[narrator] With the mechanical
expertise...
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[Faye] My main concern
is structural integrity.
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I think this is gonna work.
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[narrator] To test
all things automotive...
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That was beautiful.
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The more air we push through,
the more fuel will siphon out
and boom!
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- [narrator] This is
Motor MythBusters...
- [Faye] Whoo! Come on!
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This is the weirdest thing
I've ever seen!
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[narrator] Where science
meets the streets.
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- Something really bad happened
to me not too long ago.
- What?
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I bought this car
and it had 50,000 miles,
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the paint looked great,
interior was beautiful.
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And what was the problem?
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I found out it had
350,000 miles.
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So they rolled back
the odometer 300,000 miles?
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Yep.
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And around the world,
people lose millions
of dollars a year
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- to odometer fraud.
- Huh.
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So I had to figure out,
okay, how do they do this?
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So I put this contraption
together
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and you see it go forward,
right?
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[Tory] Yeah.
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- [Bisi] And counting
is going upwards, yeah?
- [Tory] Right.
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When I go backwards.
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[Tory]
It's not going in reverse.
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- [Bisi] It's not, so.
- [Tory] No.
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How did they do it?
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I don't know.
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- What do you think?
- I don't think--
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- I don't think it's possible.
- Well, why don't we do this?
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Why don't we get
a bunch of different cars,
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- put them in reverse,
let them run...
- Okay,
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And see if the odometer
rolls back.
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That may be a good myth,
actually.
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Can we turn back miles
by going in reverse on a car?
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[narrator]
Well, here's a classic myth.
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Want to shave some miles
off your car?
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Simple.
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Drive it in reverse.
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I mean, it's so much
in our culture
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that it was in the movie
Ferris Bueller's Day Off,
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where they add
a bunch of miles on their car
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and they thought,
"Let's put it in reverse
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and we'll get those
miles back."
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[narrator] It's a classic
caper, but we chose
not to buy the clip,
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and Ferris Bueller's "Pay-Off"
covered the cost
of an '80s Caddy
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with mechanical odometer
and a Honda hybrid
with digital readout.
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[Bisi] This '85 vehicle here
and this newer 2011 hybrid,
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I think we should jack it up
and get the drive wheels
off the floor
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and drive it in reverse.
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We'll put a brick
on the gas pedal...
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- [laughing] And see
what happens.
- And let them run.
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- Oh, no!
- I don't want to do
the brick thing.
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I think that's a great idea.
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All right, so we have
all the odometers recorded.
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I say we just start up
the cars, put them in reverse,
let them run.
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- How long are you thinking?
- Half-hour?
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Sounds good.
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All right. Are we sure that
these are front-wheel drive?
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We'll find out in a second,
won't we?
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[Bisi] That's hauling!
That is fast [laughs]
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I'm going to get in the CR-Z.
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[Tory] Cool.
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All right,
let's start a timer.
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- [Bisi] Yes.
- Half hour.
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[Tory] All right.
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I'm curious
about the Cadillac.
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- [Bisi] Oh!
- [Tory] What? Wait a minute.
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- [Bisi] It's counting upwards.
- [Tory] It's going forward,
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even in reverse.
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[Bisi] Oh! That's crazy.
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The numbers are going up.
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That's pretty clever, though.
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That is.
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That's smart of
the manufacturer to do that.
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So no matter what you do,
it's actually
covering distance.
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- Yeah.
- Even if you're going forward
or backward, it's clocking.
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[Tory] All right.
How's this one doing?
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[Bisi] It's going upwards.
Yeah.
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- [Tory] Okay.
- [Bisi] It's going up.
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- [Tory] All right.
- Same thing.
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So these modern cars...
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They figured out
how not to cheat the odometer.
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So it's actually
whether it's going forward
or backwards,
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it's increasing mileage
on the car.
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Right. If you were trying to
shave miles off your odometer,
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the modern-day cars are
not going to allow you
to do that.
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That's right.
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[narrator]
Yep. It's pretty clear.
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Based on the comparative tests
between an '80s analog system
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and a 2011 digital odometer,
driving a modern car
in reverse
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won't wind the clock back.
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So Tory and Bisi are going
to look for older vehicles
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that might be reverse-winding
clock contenders.
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[Tory] Well, Bisi, I mean,
I guess the good news
is odometer fraud
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is a lot harder to do
than you would think.
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You can't just throw the car
into reverse
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and start shaving miles
off your odometer.
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[Bisi] But fraudsters
are still finding ways
to wind back odometers.
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What a shame, not to mention,
highly illegal.
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You know, every day
millions of people
drive their cars
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and they look at their gauges,
they see the speedometer,
the odometer go up.
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Right.
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And they have no idea
what's going on
behind the scenes.
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- Oh!
- So this is the perfect
representation of...
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- [Tory] So we broke it down.
- [Bisi] ...of what's
in a car.
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- And this is a transmission
out of an old van.
- That is correct.
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- That is correct.
- All right.
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And so, now right here,
this is the cable
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that's connected
to the odometer.
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Yes. And there's a reed wire
that goes all the way
to the odometer.
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[Tory] Yeah.
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And as it spins,
it spins some assemblies
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inside the gauge cluster
as well.
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[Tory] So as this is rotating,
it's actually spinning
this cable
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and that's turning our
odometer.
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[Bisi] Yes, it does.
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You know,
what is shocking to me
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is the fact that
they're using plastic gears
to spin that cable.
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You know,
forces are not exerted
on those gears,
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and it's much more
cost-effective
for the manufacturers
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to use such components.
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Yeah, I just feel like
something as important
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as knowing the miles
on your engine,
a gear like that,
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I feel like if it, you know,
broke a tooth,
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now you're going to
start skipping miles.
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It's really robust.
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But tell you what,
when I build your car,
I'll use titanium.
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- How's that?
- I feel better already.
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- Sounds good.
- All right, hit the gas.
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- Just allow me to demonstrate.
- Hit the accelerator.
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Sounds good.
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"The gas."
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[both laugh]
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All right,
so that's the transmission
which is just spinning
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and that's spinning this gear,
and inside here,
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there's a cable
that's spinning
and attached to the odometer.
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[Bisi] And you see there
are miles moving up.
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It's painful.
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Oh, all right, well,
why don't we see
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if we can actually
break into an odometer
and roll back the numbers?
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[narrator]
Remember these words, folks.
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It's illegal to roll back
your odometer.
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So there's basically
two types of odometers,
digital and mechanical.
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- I want to explore
the electrical side of things.
- Okay.
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- And I'll look at
the mechanical.
- Sounds good.
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[Tory] So what I have right
here is a mechanical odometer
from the 1980s.
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And I have the cable
attached to a drill
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just so you could see
the mileage increase.
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Now, as I'm spinning
the cable,
it's recording those miles.
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Now, the top part,
that is the trip mileage.
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Down at the bottom
is the mileage of the overall
life of the engine.
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So right now, I have 322 miles
on this odometer.
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So what I'm going to do is
see if I can open this up
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and figure out a way
to roll that 322 miles
back to zero.
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I mean, obviously,
you're probably thinking,
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why don't you just
put it in reverse
and make it go backwards?
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Well, if I do that,
you can see
what's happening here.
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That little lever
as it's rolling forward,
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it's pushing this gear
forward.
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But when you go in reverse,
that arm lifts up.
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It uses a gear freewheeling
ratchet
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that rotates and spins
the counter up
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when going forwards
and idles
when going backwards.
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Just like a bike does,
pedal going forward,
free-wheel when not pedaling.
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One other thing you can
look for to know
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if your odometer has been
tampered with is
if you pop this gear off,
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the numbers will
never line up completely.
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All right, as you can see,
I've got it back to zero.
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Now, I'm just going to put the
odometer back together
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and see if we can
detect whether or not
I've been tampering with this.
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Now that it's back together.
Let's just do a test.
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So while Tory is investigating
the mechanical odometer,
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I'm going to use
this specialty tool
to look at how easy
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or challenging
it would be to modify
a digital dash display.
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How does a digital odometer
work?
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In place of a mechanical
drive cable, a magnetic sensor
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tracks the number of gear
turns in the transmission,
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then it is conducted by wires
to the onboard car computer,
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which interprets and converts
the information into
a mileage count.
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So what I'm going to do
is I'm going to attempt
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to change the mileage
on this vehicle.
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This tool is actually
a professional tool
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that allows for odometer
calibration in the event
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that you may have
an odometer that went out
and you need to correct it,
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or you had a vehicle
that had a discrepancy
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and you want to get it back
to the original format.
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What's interesting is that
this particular device
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only allows for
kilometer measurement.
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So I'm going to convert
my mileage to kilometers
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and have the opportunity
to put this back
when I'm done.
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So we're now at 106,264 miles.
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Let's knock off a good
30,000 off this.
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So 70,000 miles.
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So I'm going to go ahead
and put this in.
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There we go.
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Enter!
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These are bunch of checkered
lights coming on,
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some flashing of the dash
itself.
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And that says my adjustment
is complete.
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And look, it gave me
69,615 miles, so slightly off.
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So now, let's put it back
to the original mileage.
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Okay.
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This is a professional device.
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Not everyone can get
access to it,
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but where there's a will,
there's a way
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because unscrupulous
characters can actually
change your mileage.
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So what can we do to prevent
you from getting a vehicle
that has been tampered with?
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Well, vehicle history reports
are one good place,
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because every time a vehicle
is serviced or registered,
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that number is
put into the system.
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Wear items like the pedals.
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Do you have a low mileage car
that shouldn't have had
any pedal wear whatsoever,
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but the pedals look like
it's been stomped on
for hours and hours and hours.
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That's a dead giveaway.
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The headliner.
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Are there rips
and tears there?
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How easy is it
to bring down the visor?
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It doesn't have that nice
tautness to it.
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Check the manufacturer date
on the tires.
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Does it match the mileage
of the car or have the tires
already been replaced
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when the car has
very low mileage?
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There's so many ways
to look at that.
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And, yeah, protect yourself.
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So how did your experience
go with the digital odometer?
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Tell me about yours first.
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[chuckles] Oh, man!
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So it was unsettling
how easy it was
to pull this thing apart.
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And then I was actually
able to roll it back to zero
and I put it back together.
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And I thought this is,
like, too simple.
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I mean, we're basically
showing people how to change
an odometer.
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However, watch what happens
after I put it all
back together.
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Tory, it's going up
in 1,000 miles, not 1 mile.
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Exactly.
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So this was a little
comforting to realize that,
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you know, it's not that easy
to break into
a mechanical odometer
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and change the numbers.
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So this did give me
a little bit of comfort.
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Well, in my experiment
with the correct tool,
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it was frighteningly easy.
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- Really?
- Just plugged it in.
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That's not good.
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Select it with
just some menus.
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Put in the mileage you want,
and, presto.
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Unfortunately, it seems
there aren't really any cars
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with tamper-proof
digital odometers.
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- [Tory] And that was it?
- [Bisi] That was it.
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- Oh, that's terrifying.
- It is.
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Oh, so it's important
for consumers to do
due diligence
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and look around the vehicle,
look at more than
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just the mileage to determine
the age of their car.
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[narrator] But this myth's
not quite done and dusted.
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Remember the '86 Cadillac
on blocks?
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In the '80s, cars would only
wind their odometer forward,
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as Tory has found,
where a ratchet system
prevented the clock
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from getting wound back.
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So is it possible
pre-'80s cars
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could wind their clock back
in reverse?
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As luck would have it,
there's a '67 GTO to test.
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[Tory] Ha! I can't believe
the producer's letting us
drive his car,
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backwards, no less.
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- [laughs]
- I guess you want to drive.
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- Yes, I do.
- All right. Let's go.
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It's like some '70s cop show.
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- [laughs]
- Hit it.
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- There's a crime in progress.
- [laughs]
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- [Tory] Oh!
- [Bisi] Oh!
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- [Tory] Feel that rumble?
- [Bisi] Yes.
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[Tory] Yeah.
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He's very concerned about us.
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We'll be fine. Don't worry.
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I don't need a guide
to get out of a garage.
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- [Tory] Bisi drives backwards
all the time.
- Yep.
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He's super-protective
of his car.
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You look nervous.
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- Go easy on her.
She's old.
- [Bisi] Of course.
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And you know,
there's parts that,
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you know, might break,
because she's old.
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So let's take it
real nice and easy,
okay, guys?
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- [Bisi] Cool, cool.
- [Tory] What could
possibly go wrong?
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- [Bisi] Nothing at all.
- We're driving backwards.
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How fast are we going to be
able to go?
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[Tory] All right.
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- You're ready to see
if this thing rolls back?
- Yeah.
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I'm having a hard time
believing that.
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[Bisi] Well,
we'll find out now.
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There we go. You ready?
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- Okay. All right.
- Let's go.
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[Tory] So right now
we are at...
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96,486.9 miles.
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Barely broken in. [laughs]
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[Tory]
I mean, this could work,
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but what a pain in the butt.
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I know, is it even worth
doing this for miles
and miles and miles?
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This would be so annoying.
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[laughs]
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The amount of money
we're going to spend on fuel
in doing this...
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- Right.
- With a V-8,
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- it won't even be worth...
- No.
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- [both chuckling]
- ...the advantage
of the price.
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[Tory] Oh, that sounds good.
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[Bisi] Tory, move back.
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[Tory] Right now, we are at...
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[Bisi]
Oh, it's moving quite a bit.
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Like how many times
have we gone around
this block?
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- Quite a bit.
- Yeah, this is not...
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It is not an efficient way.
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[Tory] Well, let's see.
We've been driving,
I would say, about 15 minutes.
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[Bisi] And we probably
consumed eight gallons of fuel
doing it.
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Yeah. This does not seem like
the most efficient way
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- to get miles
off your vehicle.
- [Bisi] Not at all.
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[Tory] We didn't hit anything.
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[Bisi] Yeah,
she's in good hands.
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- [Tory] Everything went well.
- Yeah?
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[Tory] She runs
like a grizzly bear.
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[Bisi] Yeah,
smells like one, too.
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- Okay.
- [Tory] Yeah. Thanks.
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- Everything's fine?
- [Tory] Yeah, it's fine.
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Actually, we've shaved
a couple of miles
off your odometer.
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[Bisi] Yeah.
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[Tory] So these pre-'70s
old-timers will wind the clock
back in reverse.
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In the GTO,
the fixed gear system
with no freewheel cassette
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means the odometer
is mechanically connected
directly to the driveshaft.
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Reverse, and one mile traveled
means one mile off the clock.
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And then that cable drive
was universally replaced
by the '80s.
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Electromagnetic sensors count
each drive shaft rotation
as additional mileage.
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Forward or back,
the miles go up.
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But, Bisi, when we drove
the GTO in reverse,
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we actually wiped
miles off the engine.
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So how are we going to call
this myth?
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Well, we did test vehicles
from the '80s and the 2000s,
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and it seems that
going backwards
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didn't make the numbers
go down.
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It's painfully obvious
that manufacturers
went out of their way
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to make odometers
a lot more sophisticated.
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All right. So cars made
after the '80s,
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it's not going to work
so much.
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However, old-school cars
from the '60s,
like the GTO, can.
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So I say we call this one...
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plausible?
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I love it. Plausible it is.
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Sounds good to me.