corygoose Posted March 5, 2008 Posted March 5, 2008 I need help with my odometer on my car. I had to change the whole dash out because the speedometer died. Now the mileage on the car say 113,000, but there is actually 140,000. Is there anyway to raise the mileage on the speedometer to make say the right amount of miles?
ehsnils Posted March 5, 2008 Posted March 5, 2008 Classic method: Power drill... Never mind - it's better to document that fact that you have replaced it and when then to fiddle around with it.
SLegacy99 Posted April 30, 2008 Posted April 30, 2008 Go to a Subaru dealer, or actually any service facility for that matter and they should be able issue you a sticker where the cars mileage at the time of replacement will be written on it. Its very important that you do this because if you ever go to sell the car, mileage tampering will show on a carfax report and that would not be good. Oh and no Subaru dealers can't change the odometer. Only at the factory or so Im told.
ehsnils Posted April 30, 2008 Posted April 30, 2008 That depends on which direction you change it... More miles is your problem... Less can be considered fraud. But if you have made a complete and total rebuild of the car then it really doesn't matter anymore. But in that case you have probably changed the instrumentation too.
corygoose Posted May 7, 2008 Author Posted May 7, 2008 the only thing I'm trying to do is be honest and have the correct mileage on it.
Scruit Posted May 8, 2008 Posted May 8, 2008 Seems to me you can only wind it forward at whatever the max speed on he speedo is. If you set the power drill to make the speedo read 140mph it would take an hour to wind forward 140miles. 10 hours for 1400 miles. 100 hours for 14000 miles. You'd have to run the power drill constantly for about 200 hours. That's more than a week. Just document it. Your car already has an odometer discrepancy and it doens't matter which way you wind it - any discrepancy reduces the car's value by 50%. Manually adjusting the odometer (even forward) to make it match up so you can avoid the 50% 'odometer discrepancy' value loss is still odometer fraud.
corygoose Posted May 9, 2008 Author Posted May 9, 2008 That wouldnt be so bad if you did it like an hour or 2 a day. How do you use the power drill?
ehsnils Posted May 9, 2008 Posted May 9, 2008 First question is if it's a mechanical or electronic odometer. On the mechanical a powerdrill solution is feasible, and you just rotate the cable with the powerdrill. The catch using a powerdrill is that you may as well end up with two broken instrument clusters if there is an overload... And also consider a second question - does anybody really care about possible odometer fraud on a car that has more than 140000 miles on the odometer? Maybe you should select the method that's easiest and go with that.
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