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Old Jan 9, 2006 | 09:15 AM
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Odometer education

Evaluating a 2004 Explorer XLT at CarMax San Antonio which showes 9487.9
miles on the odomerter. I am wondering about this milage. All other milage I have seen do not show a decimal point. Are We (CarMax and I) being fooled by the "Trip" odometer and not looking at the car odometer??

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Old Jan 9, 2006 | 10:05 AM
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I doubt anyone can put 94,879 Miles on a vehicle in 2 years.
 
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Old Jan 9, 2006 | 10:17 AM
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.....Theres a decimal between the 7 and the 9.....its not even 10,000 miles. Personally if it is the trip odometer, I have never heard of a trip odometer counting the high before reseting itself to 0.
 
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Old Jan 9, 2006 | 10:26 AM
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Maybe the questions should be.
Does the trip odometer contain a decimal?
Does the regular odometer contain a decimal?

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Old Jan 9, 2006 | 10:46 AM
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Some odometers do show decimals some don't. I believe my Lincoln LS and my 94 F250 show tenths on the regular odometer. I think my 96 chebby did not.

Yours very probably does have decimals on the odometer. Don't worry about it.

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Old Jan 9, 2006 | 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Clipper
Does the trip odometer contain a decimal?
Yes.

Originally Posted by Clipper
Does the regular odometer contain a decimal?
Yes.
 
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Old Jan 9, 2006 | 04:54 PM
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Thread moved to the Explorer forum.

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Old Jan 10, 2006 | 10:51 AM
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If I recalll correctly the odometer will not display the decimal point anymore after it rolls past 10,000 miles.
 
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Clipper -

Try "zeroing" the 9487.9; if it changes to 0.0 you were looking at the tripmeter and need to cycle to the odometer to get mileage.

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