Odometer Stopped working???
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Odometer Stopped working???
On my way to work today I noticed that my odometer stopped working. The "Trip" feature doesn't work either. Everything else seems to be working okay (i.e. Speedometer). The truck only has about 82, 000 miles on it.
I was hoping that someone might have some insight about what is wrong. I don't think replacing the cable will fix it because from my understanding, if the cable was bad I don't think that the speedometer would still be working. I could be wrong though. Any help would be greatly appreciated
I was hoping that someone might have some insight about what is wrong. I don't think replacing the cable will fix it because from my understanding, if the cable was bad I don't think that the speedometer would still be working. I could be wrong though. Any help would be greatly appreciated
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This might sound a bit too easy, but try pressing the trip reset button a few times fully. I noticed both my odometers stopped working after I had reset them, so I hit the button again and everything worked. Hopefully that works for you.
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i understand that having somthing not working on your truck might be kind of frustrating. but i'm having a hard time seing why an odometer not working is such a bad thing after all???
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...i accidently pushed reply too soon, and it looked like i was 100% serious.
dont get me wrong, i know that odometer fraud is a big deal.... but the thought of keeping the re-sale value up, having the insurance go down due to driving less than 1,000 miles per year.... all sounds kinda nice to me.
dont get me wrong, i know that odometer fraud is a big deal.... but the thought of keeping the re-sale value up, having the insurance go down due to driving less than 1,000 miles per year.... all sounds kinda nice to me.
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Without the odometer, it would be a little bit more challenging to determine when to do your oil and other routine maintenance. It's impossible to figure out your gas mileage. And if you ever decide to sell it there are going to be a lot of questions asked, especially if they try and pull a car-fax type report.
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-i still say the benifits could out weigh the costs.
-change the oil evert 3 months regaurdless. unless you drive the truck a whole lot, i'm sure it'll be fine.
- instead of figuring miles to the gallon you could always try and figure hours to the gallon. or gallons to the day
-what kind of questions could be asked that you couldnt answer by sayin its been parked. we only drove it on sunday to church. little old ladys do that all the time and nobody questions them do they>???
-as far as carfax goes, i am not 100% sure about this one, but that only tells the mileage when the car was sold/bought. unless you update the information to them yourself.
as far as fixing it goes, i'd fix it. i'm just sayin how he could turn a bad thing into somthing good.... take the lemons and make lemonaide so to say.
-change the oil evert 3 months regaurdless. unless you drive the truck a whole lot, i'm sure it'll be fine.
- instead of figuring miles to the gallon you could always try and figure hours to the gallon. or gallons to the day
-what kind of questions could be asked that you couldnt answer by sayin its been parked. we only drove it on sunday to church. little old ladys do that all the time and nobody questions them do they>???
-as far as carfax goes, i am not 100% sure about this one, but that only tells the mileage when the car was sold/bought. unless you update the information to them yourself.
as far as fixing it goes, i'd fix it. i'm just sayin how he could turn a bad thing into somthing good.... take the lemons and make lemonaide so to say.