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  • 10-10-2015 4:04pm
    #1
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭


    I'm at the dealership getting a tire rotation and oil change. Waiting to speak to a manager because my OD when I pulled in was 100,588 and my paperwork reads its at 100,623. It's been with them for less than 90 minutes. Is there any technical reason during a service this should be remotely correct?


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  • #2
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,686 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    I'd allow about 3-5 miles for a test drive to check job was ok and tyres balanced, 35 would seem excessive unless there was issues and lots of them during the job.


  • #3
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Talked to the manager who is a genuinely nice seeming chap. He walked back out there with the OBD and we were both surprised to see the dash read 100,582 (might have remembered the last digit wrong, as a 0). So there is a 41 mile discrepancy between the ECU and the dash. The theory is it may have been run on a dyno without the correct wrong during one of my couple of post-collision repairs. This would make sense given that afte 1 collision I took it to a crap dealership my insurer recommended and my gas was empty when I got it back that time. The car also had to be taken back immediately because the wheel was still horribly misaligned, I was driving to the gas station in a straight line with my wheel turned to 20°


  • #4
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,193 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Overheal wrote: »
    Talked to the manager who is a genuinely nice seeming chap. He walked back out there with the OBD and we were both surprised to see the dash read 100,582 (might have remembered the last digit wrong, as a 0). So there is a 41 mile discrepancy between the ECU and the dash. The theory is it may have been run on a dyno without the correct wrong during one of my couple of post-collision repairs. This would make sense given that afte 1 collision I took it to a crap dealership my insurer recommended and my gas was empty when I got it back that time. The car also had to be taken back immediately because the wheel was still horribly misaligned, I was driving to the gas station in a straight line with my wheel turned to 20°

    Apparently it's not unheard-of. ECUs appear to arrive at mileage figures independently of the odometer and aren't completely accurate.


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