Odometer roll-over at 400k?
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From: Plankinton, SD
Where did you get your truck? When I bought mine (of course that has been 11 years) the ford dealer gave me the original owners number and I called and talked to him before I bought it. Just a thought.
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From: Mt.Angel
Some small cheesy dealer in salem. It had a clear title and only cost $3k so i snatched her up quick no questions lol, my mistake guess i was a little bit on the excited side for buying my first vehicle and it was a psd 
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whats so hard about puttin 4-5-6-7-8 or9 on the first digit?? all the other digits work just fine higher than 4! i once saw a obs that said "error" on the odometer. i dont know how credible this guys story is... but he said that it just errored out when he hit 1 million miles... i have an old speedometer here i have been meaning to hook up to a pulse thing or whatever to make it just rack up the miles and ill let it run for a few days or however long it takes just to see what happens
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Wait.. are you saying your odometer actually reads 498873 or does it read 398873? and yea this has gotten me on the thought of tracking down the po and asking them how many or if its rolled over 400k yet? and now it makes me want to buy my next psd at less than 300k.
Hey anyone know if i do a carfax will it give out like a phone number or something of the po?
Hey anyone know if i do a carfax will it give out like a phone number or something of the po?
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From: Gambrills
no mine actually reads 398 but i know its 498 and was just wonering when it really turns 500k if its going to stay at 3 or goto 4 or read 500k like it should.not sure on the carfax but you think it would be able to tell you the truth.i guess i got lucky i know where the truck come from and he told me before i bought it.good luck hope yours is on the money
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From: Kearney, Nebr
Interesting. We had a dually that the VSS sensor went out. The odometer read 243k the day we bought it 10 years ago (its a 94.5).
Hard to believe we drove it without a speedometer for so many years. It has to have well over 300 by now.
Guess we'll have to have that fixed before we sell it.
No wonder we never hear about any trucks in the 400-500 range.
Hard to believe we drove it without a speedometer for so many years. It has to have well over 300 by now.
Guess we'll have to have that fixed before we sell it.
No wonder we never hear about any trucks in the 400-500 range.
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From: Mt.Angel
Man that sucks u missed it by 9k from finding if it was the first 300k or not. And since the odometer is digital is any of this info saved in the ECU(PCM). and how f*(^ing hard would have it been for the ford engineers back then to programm it to go to 900k seriously, maybe they expected the engine to be rebuilt by 400k and have the odometer reset?
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Man that sucks u missed it by 9k from finding if it was the first 300k or not. And since the odometer is digital is any of this info saved in the ECU(PCM). and how f*(^ing hard would have it been for the ford engineers back then to programm it to go to 900k seriously, maybe they expected the engine to be rebuilt by 400k and have the odometer reset?
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From: Ellensburg, WA
I wonder if the NBS 7.3's have the same problem? My wife's odometer is mechanical.
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Really, if you hit 400k and rolled back to 300 and continued on from there, its very likly the diff, trans, has been worked on at sometime and if it has not then your on borrowed time IMO.
300k + is alot of miles even though the engine can take more and you have no tracking after the 400k mark. But really, after 400k miles, does it really mater what you have on your truck.........at that point the truck is more then proven itself. Think of it this way, if you get into an accident, your 300k mile truck is worth more then 400, 500, 600k mile truck when paid out.
300k + is alot of miles even though the engine can take more and you have no tracking after the 400k mark. But really, after 400k miles, does it really mater what you have on your truck.........at that point the truck is more then proven itself. Think of it this way, if you get into an accident, your 300k mile truck is worth more then 400, 500, 600k mile truck when paid out.