How to avoid odometer fraud<br>Examine the odometer for the number of miles. [substeps] Automobiles average about 12 , 000 miles a year. For example, if a car is 5 years old but has far fewer than 60 , 000 miles, the odometer may have been tampered with.
The longer you own a car which you drive very infrequently, the more likely you are to be suspected of odometer fraud.
While tampering with an odometer is certainly a reason for a low result, the average is just that, an average. The statement had no numerical values to interpret based on the original context.