Adding mileage to a new Odometer?

CJhaughey

I have aquired a brand-new Km/h speedo.
My old one is reading 160K miles
The new one has 44km on it , I need to add a fair bit of mileage to the new speedo to be accurate how does one add miles to a speedo when there is no cable? Obviously electronic signals are used to make the speedo work but what kind of signal and how do I generate one?

stratos

More than likley the mileage is not held in the instrument panel, more likley in the ecu or somewhere else. I saw this before with a friend of mine, he bought a new panel abroad. When he connected it up to the car it displayed the cars real mileage. so maybe your car will be the same. Other than that contact the "recalibration people" hhhmmm maybe not.

bazz26

If it is a digital odometer then it could be possible to change it with a laptop computer via some sort of serial port and special software, but it is illegal to do this and I am in no way encouraging it.

Also car makers are making it harder for odometers to be tampered with these days. Some even go back to zero if tampered with.

It does bring up an interesting question though about used cars for sale, retro fitted with kph speedos, are the kilometers on the odometer geniune or have they been changed with the speedo?

lomb

hire a milage recalbrator/"clocker" i am sure he will oblige u for 100euro

mike65

Why bother changing the milage at all?

Mike.

CJhaughey

Thanks for the advice.
I suppose that I could just give the purchaser the old speedo and tell him that this was the correct mileage when I changed the speedo.