Odometers lie: buy condition, not miles

Broken and inaccurate odometers are endemic across both A1 and A2 cars and the community has fully priced this in. VDO clusters use plastic gears that strip (often triggered by hitting the trip reset while driving), gears can fuse and spin all digits at once, and speedometer cables and clusters were routinely swapped, so listings with 499k, TMU or suspiciously low readings all appear in this corpus. …