An Ontario man has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and two years of probation after he advertised and sold vehicles with odometers that had been rolled back, and acted as a car dealer with registration, according to an Ontario industry regulator.
In one instance, the man sold a 2008 Toyota with an odometer that read 56,753 kilometers even though it actually had been driven for more than 309,800 kilometers, according to Don Cousens, a manager of investigations at the Ontario Motor Vehicle Industry Council.
“Consumers are understandably angry when they buy a car anticipating it will provide reliable service for years, only to discover it may actually be near the end of its useful life,” Cousens said,“The sentence demonstrates that the courts take these issues of consumer harm very seriously,” Cousens added.
Devices capable of reprogramming odometers “are readily available online for a few hundred dollars,” but there are a few ways to avoid being duped, according to OMVIC.
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