I've been looking at getting a new midsized truck for a long time and finally bit the bullet and bought a brand new 2024 Frontier and I love it. Drove it home and noticed the engine acting funky going uphill in first and idleing slightly rough. Now this truck has 84 miles on it currently, had 9 this morning when my sales agent picked it up. Here's where it gets a little conspiratorial.
The cup holders up front have a bunch of little superficially scaring that looks like use. There's wrinkling in the driver's side seat (leather/plether) that looks like a decent amount of wear. When I pulled up the old floor mats to swap them for the all weather ones there was a decent amount of debris under both sides, more so on the drivers. Seemingly more than having being driven once by the sales agent. There's rust on bolts for the leaf springs, the u joints on the driveshafts in multiple places, and on the leaf springs themselves.
When the deal on my new truck was being negotiated the one that I wanted was drawn up and priced out. Pretty last minute the guy says "now this was the GM of x dealerships demo truck, it has about 2300 miles, is that okay or do you want a new one." Of course I freaking said "yeah absolutely a new one" and he went off to the sales office to look up the same truck but new, which is what he came back with.
Now where my mind is at right now, which I know would've been breaking about 17 laws for them, is that this is that demo truck. I don't want to believe that, I want to enjoy my brand spanking new truck, but it doesn't feel like a brand spanking new truck. There's scaring in little places and up on the dash as well.
Is there a way for me to 100% test for myself if the digital odemeter was tampered with? Or to find some proof that this truck has been driven 2300 miles?
Tires are brand new but that's an easy swap. I know I sound like a nut but something just feels off and I want to put my mind 100% at ease over this so I can just enjoy the truck.
Any help is much appreciated.
Well if they sey back the odometer done electronically there wouldn't be any traces of that. It sure does sound fishy to me, but what's junk you found in it debris? It sure sounds like it was the demo. You just have one heck of a time finding it out unless you found somebody. Would road tested the thing as a demo and said yeah I did that
I appreciate the reply scotty. I'm at a loss on this. There's seemingly now way to check if the odemeter was manipulated. I feel like there has to be someway to tell if this thing has had 2300 miles put on it. The debris was just normal dirt and little rocks under the floor matt on the driver's side. A little confused by the last two sentences you posted.
I appreciate the reply scotty. I'm at a loss on this. There's seemingly now way to check if the odemeter was manipulated. I feel like there has to be someway to tell if this thing has had 2300 miles put on it. The debris was just normal dirt and little rocks under the floor matt on the driver's side. A little confused by the last two sentences you posted.
Scotty usually answers questions once and doesn't revisit them.
I believe Scotty was pointing out the difficulty of proving an altered mileage claim, as in you would likely need an eyewitness to that rollback.
Appreciate you clearing that up. I'm fairly certain there's no way to find evidence electronically that the digital odometer was reset. I feel like there has to be some other component that I could inspect to find proof of that kind of millage being put on. I don't think a VIN search would help here as if they did something fishy like this they likely wouldn't report the miles prior to doing something like that. But I'm just spitballing ideas trying to come up with a way to figure this out.
Sound like you got the demo truck. Even if your suspicions are true and they set the odometer back there's literally no way to prove it at this point (unless someone is willing to confess to a crime). On a positive note Nissan's trucks have had and maintained a good reputation for years so I wouldn't be concerned about the truck itself, it's solid.