Odometer reading suspect?

Falcon L

OK, a bit of an odd one.
Car: Renault Laguna 3 Privilege, 2008, 2.0 diesel, auto. Original Irish car.

My odometer reads just over 200k kms. I bought it second hand and I always thought that the car was in great shape for the distance covered. I put this down to motorway mileage. Now I'm beginning to suspect that the odometer has been over-reading.

On my last trip to London, a week ago, I set the trip counter and the bit in the computer that tells the distance covered since last reset, for fuel use purposes. I checked the trip counter halfway across Wales and it said 27kms! That surprised me as I live about that distance from the ferry. The distance covered since reset said a more believable 132km.

I thought I might have reset the trip by mistake and kept an eye on it. It seemed to be ticking over alright. When I arrived in London I checked both of the recorders. The trip showed 301kms, about 200 short of the other recorder, which was about right at 495km.

With my focus firmly on the recording, when I got home I was surprised to notice that the odometer had racked up almost 1500kms, for the return trip when it should have only been about 1000. Obviously I now suspect the 200k kms reading on the odometer.

With the trip counter under-reading and the odometer seemingly over-reading, is there any to verify the true kms on the car? Possibly from the ECU?

colm_mcm

You don't have two trip meters and an odometer by any chance?

Falcon L

colm_mcm wrote: »

You don't have two trip meters and an odometer by any chance?

No Colm, just the one trip. The other meter I mentioned is the distance covered for the fuel use calculations.