Odometer roll over question.
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Odometer roll over question.
What's the variable on if your odometer will roll over at 399k or not. I know it has something to do with an E in your odometer at key on accessories. Thanks guys
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It's an OBS thing. Watch your odometer when you first turn the key to RUN. All the LCD segments light up at once. You'll see there's a segment missing on the leftmost digit. Without that segment, it can't display a 4 (or 5, 6, 8 or 9....). That will means it will roll over at 399,999.
IIRC, the SDs went back to a mechanical odometer with numbers on wheels, and all the digits have 0-9.
IIRC, the SDs went back to a mechanical odometer with numbers on wheels, and all the digits have 0-9.
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actually the switchover to fully digital was 04. i had 3 03 plain jane trucks with analog odometers.
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Digital odometer was late 2001. I have had 3 2001 SD all with vacuum fluorescent green digital displays.
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it depends on the truck. XLT and Lariat had digital display and the halogen headlights. the plain jane XL work trucks had analog odometers and sealed beam headlights in 03.
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I wondered if there was a correspondence between the trim level and the odo. That also explains the sealed beams on the "work truck" early SDs I see. 'Course, weren't the sealed beams also halogen? I don't think I've seen an old tungsten headlight since the Reagan administration.
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My '96 F250 lariat has the green digital display.
It rolled back on its own instead of over to 400,000k but I assumed someone had messed with the odometer before I owned it. Will have to do what madpogue suggested next time I drive it.
It rolled back on its own instead of over to 400,000k but I assumed someone had messed with the odometer before I owned it. Will have to do what madpogue suggested next time I drive it.
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