Speedometer/odometer re set
However, what I want is a replacement instrument panel ideally from a low mileage car, then I want to re set to the mileage of my high mileage vehicle.
Can this be done? If so how is it achieved please?
I do not want a false mileage either high or low.
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Pulse generator will help you to clock-up the mileage but you cennot clock-it-back.
In short, you cannot easily change mileage on instrument cluster.
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Trying to tell the electronics you are travelling at a speed greater than the analog dial, would chuck a digital spanner in the works.
You might conceivably spoof it into thinking you are travelling at 120mph but there again it would only accept that for a period of time.
The ECU would throw up anomalies like this & that info could be read on a code reader.
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It would take ol' George ages to wind one back this way but as he only dealt with dealers he would charge them for the whole day + so much per car, and would do several cars at the same time to absorb the costs. It worked for him as he had the trade contacts, being as he was a former car detailer
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Interestingly, my mk2 F (electronic odometer) had a replacement second hand instrument cluster fitted that was approx 100,000 miles less than actual. It was simply recorded into the MOT database as such.🫡
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Anyway it’s a moot point really, these days with regular monitoring of mileages, you would need to be determined to change the values.
If your car was over forty years old & didn’t require an MOT & therefore no mileage is recorded, it is preconceived that the mileage is going to be high as a mater of course, so why bother.
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So I am told...
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Actually I used to know a very dodgey unlicenced used car dealer, (he was a friend of my evil sister) who dealt it jap cars, he would open up the speedo and would use a very sharp needle to rotate the cover with the numbers printed on it by carefully pricking it and dragging it around the cylinder it was mounted on, this bloke Earl was so crooked he couldn't lie straight in bed and always had some scam or another on the go!In the old days with the numbered letters on a roller it was very easy to spring them apart and rotate them like a rubic cube to get the desired reading.
So I am told...
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Actually I used to know a very dodgey unlicenced used car dealer, (he was a friend of my evil sister) who dealt it jap cars, he would open up the speedo and would use a very sharp needle to rotate the cover with the numbers printed on it by carefully pricking it and dragging it around the cylinder it was mounted on, this bloke Earl was so crooked he couldn't lieIn the old days with the numbered letters on a roller it was very easy to spring them apart and rotate them like a rubic cube to get the desired reading.
So I am told...
straight in bed and always had some scam or another on the go!
We all have friends like that..but of course you know I was only recounting a story of what went on...not the perpertrator...gulp.
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Im not sure the MOT situation has been grasped completely.
If I turn up to the next MOT with a lower mileage than previously recorded what happens next?
It is one of reasons I would like to acquire a used low mileage item and “wind on the mileage” somehow. I had a brief thought that this might be achieved through pscan, probably not.
What puzzles me is that if it is so difficult to do how come it has become not uncommon to see that service advertised on lamp posts etc.
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