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Old Jul 25, 2007 | 09:21 PM
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odometer: 89k or 189k?

Is there a way to tell how many times an odometer has rolled over? (ie gone past 99k and started over)

i have a truck with "low mileage" and i just want to make sure that it does not have one or two hundred thousand miles more than i think on it..
 
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Old Jul 25, 2007 | 09:29 PM
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Mine reads to 999,999.9. I've got 277,000 on it. You didn't mention what year your's was. I think the older mechanical ones the numbers wouldn't line up right after it turned over 100,000 miles.
 
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Old Jul 25, 2007 | 09:37 PM
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sorry, edit double post.
 

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Old Jul 25, 2007 | 09:40 PM
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or maybe even 289k.

dmv records may help.
 
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Old Jul 25, 2007 | 09:49 PM
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Originally Posted by radialarm
Mine reads to 999,999.9. I've got 277,000 on it. You didn't mention what year your's was. I think the older mechanical ones the numbers wouldn't line up right after it turned over 100,000 miles.
I'm curious what truck you have. '87-'91 read to 99,999.9 and '92-'96 go to 399,999.9. If you watch while the PCM boots at start-up you can see that the upper-left section of the left-most digit is missing, so it can't make a '4' (nor 5,6,8 and 9).

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Old Jul 25, 2007 | 10:11 PM
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it's an '89 so it only has the five digit odometer.

F250 7.3 5spd in case you care.

and i don't think the numbers line up... uh oh..
 
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Old Jul 26, 2007 | 07:25 AM
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I don't think going by how the numbers align will tell you anything. The alignment of the numbers changes constantly as the larger numbers get closer to rolling over. Once they roll over, all the numbers line up again.
 
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Old Jul 26, 2007 | 08:33 AM
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Its a diesel... Even at 189k its just getting broke in
 
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Old Jul 26, 2007 | 10:47 AM
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I have an 87 f150 and it does the same thing, when i took it to ford for oil change i told them 35,000 miles lol, guy looked at me n said what r u retarted add the 1 hundred thousand and my parents said the same thing.
 
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Old Jul 26, 2007 | 04:45 PM
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Hey I know of several F truck with well under the 100000 mark one 88 has 12500 miles. still has sticker on window
 
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Old Jul 26, 2007 | 05:23 PM
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You really can't go by the alignment of the numbers. Although, if the odometer has been tampered with, I understand there are marks that show up across the numbers horizontally to indicate that. Never seen one with them myself, so I can only go by what I have been told.
 
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