Toyota Odometer Statement: Fill & Download for Free

Typically you go to the dealership of purchase after scheduling an appointment with F&I for a warranty cancellation. If you already traded the car bring the odometer statement from the trade paperwork if not the F&I manager will need to make note of the miles and have you sign an odometer statement along with cancellation papers and will tell you how much of a pro-rated refund you’ll receive in 4–6 weeks.

Some of this was told to me by a my first boss, Bob Jordan. Some I actually lived through. I could write a book that no one would read. But I've seen it all. Bob was a dynamic Gin drinking sales manager that worked for all the fast dealers over the years in Chicago and Los Angeles thru the late 40's 50's and 60's. He took me under his wing at a tender age and guided me through my first tumultuous year of selling automobiles.The 1960's and early 70's were the "hey day" of the dishonest dealer.America had a lot of dealerships. Some very good dealers had poor franchises and went to making most their money selling used vehicles and deeply discounting their new product and clearing them out as fast as possible. Imagine being a Studebaker dealer in 1964. Or a Rambler dealer. Nobody was coming in the showroom. But if you were a good strong used car dealer you could build traffic. There were no odometer laws. It was easy to turn back the miles. No Carfax, No computer systems to record miles. Not even an odometer statement.A couple things came together at a critical time. Nash Rambler Jeep became AMC. Studebaker folded. Television was in about 90% of American households.Local non affiliated television stations were in many cities. Advertising on Saturdays and Sundays and late night was very cheap. Showing a vehicle and a payment was new. And it was all done with used cars.THE THREE FACE SPECIALImagine a pitchman showing you a beautiful 1966 Mustang in 1968 for $69.00 per month. No explanation of term. No explanation of rate. $99.00 down and $69 per month. That's it. You see 3 faces of the car. Generally part of the passenger side, always the front, and then the drivers side as he swings that door shut. Thus 3 faces. what you don't see is the creamed right rear quarter or pushed in rear end collision. There were no condemned titles back then. There were no rules.... just none. No rules at all.Toyota, and Datsun had just landed. Citroen, Peugeot, VW and other small dealers usually in the hands of a capable hands on owner were siphoning sales. Dealerships were for sale and the big fast strong operators were buying them up. they were opening cut throat operations, ignoring morality and launching crazy tactics on a pretty naïve buying public. they would buy a store run it four or five years and sell and open up in new unsuspecting metro market and start all over again. On the West Coast you had Larry Robinson, Ralph Williams and Cal Worthington. These dealers were legends for their volume and aggressive sales. This lasted till the 70's and somewhat the 80's as it took a while for the good dealers to start policing themselves. But there was still a lot of crafty players into the mid 90's.Then came factory intervention. Detroit was reeling from Honda and Toyota and to a lesser extend quality Japanese products sold by dealers that were pretty strongly controlled by the parent manufacturer.Remember Mr. Goodwrench? That was the feeble start. The came for with QC standards for dealers. Ford literally paid Cal Worthington in Seattle along with some help from the Washington Attorney General to sell his store. That it went to another crook was beside the point as that dealer soon went broke.The industry now works awfully hard to clean itself up.I started just at the tail end of the abuses. Yes I worked in a bugged office. Yes I worked with some fellas that were from those crazy dishonest days. They wouldn't last 3 shifts in the new environment of auto sales. You cannot smoke at the desk, have a bottle of bourbon in your lower drawer, and be reading a racing forum when you greet the customer.Thank goodness for the consumer those days are gone. But they are still very real in the private marketplace. Curbstoners abound more than willing to take your money with a doctored automobile. Buyer beware.

Most cars when sold require you to fill out and sign a statement as to whether the odometer is known to reflect the true mileage, or, if not.You merely need to sign that it was not known to be the correct mileage and all will be well. Your car might fetch a lower price due to this but you will be clear legally and conscientiously. At that point it is buyer beware.