Does pulling a car behind a RV put miles on the odometer?

Put the car in reverse and you will take those miles right off.

No, it does not.

If it was towed with back wheels rolling then yes it will add mileage however doing that is bad for the tranny

Yes it does. It was likely flat towed using a Blue Ox tow bar or something similar. Definitely rolls the odometer.

Say what? Why would putting it in neutral be bad for the transmission?

He said it was pulled on 4 wheels with a tow bar

I don't know exactly for that vehicle but I would be highly inclined to assume it has an electronic odometer and not mechanical. In that case the towed vehicle would have to be on/running in neutral for the mileage to rack up. Ask him if his car was running while it was towed 200k miles

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Faulty ignition switches in the Cobalts, which cut power to the car while in motion, were eventually linked to many crashes resulting in fatalities, starting with a teenager in 2005 who drove her new Cobalt into a tree.[14] The switch continued to be used in the manufacture of the vehicles even after the problem was known to GM.[15] On February 21, 2014, GM recalled over 700,000 Cobalts for issues traceable to the defective ignition switches.

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Not sure if 06 was in this.

Well, I see I got mixed answers. Same when googling too.

if it got those miles from towing, the drive train and transmission still have 200K miles on them. if you want to see if the engine has 200K, just take it to a mechanic and ask him to do a compression test on the engine.