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Odometer jumps 10k miles?!
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Not sure why that happens but last month on a long drive the odometer on my 87 jumped 100,000 miles thank god I am not trying to sell it. I hope someone answers the thread and clears up what is going on.
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OK...doing the mental math again, it was more like a 20,000 mile jump...from around 185,000 to 206,000. Still makes no sense. I could see a 100k jump due to one of the gears moving, but 20k?
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Just to confirm, you are now in 2012, what year were you in last time you checked the odo? :-)
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Talk about turbo lag.......
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Wow!!! You drive fast!
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I keep all the bottles of oil I add and write down the mileage to keep track of the oil usage post rebuild. I noticed that I last added a quart at about in mid May with mileage of about 186,000 miles and now I'm at 206,000!!! I barely drive 800 miles a month...at most.
Somethings wrong...
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Do you have a teenage son?
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or use valet parking?
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No kids, no valets ever, just two Welsh Corgies and they can't see over the bottom of the window...and I hide the keys from them.
Is is possible to "correct" an odometer by 20,000 miles and not damage it? It's not really an issue since I am keeping the car but it's bugging me that its wrong. I had it apart about a year ago to replace the gear and that was fairly painless but I obviously did nothing with the mileage.
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I'd suspect a broken or jammed gear within the gauge.
talk to north hollywood speedometer. They will fix it and reset it. Probably $100. They'll restore the gauge for a little more. They did a great job for me. Doug
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HTH, Chuck.H '89 TurboLookTarga, 338k miles |
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I'm glad to read that I'm not the only one - no valet, no Bueller... In the space of one tank of gas my odometer went from 99K and change to 299K and change! My candidate for full resto just became a parts car! Seriously - is correcting an odo a DIY job, or is this best left to the pros (who can update weak gears, etc., while they are at it?) Lastly, this doesn't see logical - how could this happen?
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OK...thanks for the recommendations but I've rebuilt my engine down to the crank...do I really need to send my odometer to NHS to correct the mileage? I may just take the thing apart again and, worst case scenario, send it to someone to change the mileage.
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Don't know. but if you try it, post back and let us know how you got on - I need to add 231,000 miles to the instrument in the car now.
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I wonder if any shop will alter the ODO readings?
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They altered mine - semi reluctantly but I wanted it accurate - when the odo broke, I roughly kept track of my miles and had them add them into the number, which they did.
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It's not hard to change the mileage. Toughest part is prying the lip to open the speedometer up and recrimp it neatly. When I put the '86 3.2 engine and tranny in my 1973.5, I changed the broken gear on the electronic speedometer I bought, and while I was at it set the mileage to match the original mechanical speedo. I like to keep track of the actual mileage on the car, I even notified DMV of the speedometer swap when I registered it.
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Drive backwards or a while
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