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Post by kaytrox on Aug 6, 2017 18:34:21 GMT -6
Actually, this is both question and answer, just in case anyone was wondering. Just switched out my instrument cluster, because my tachometer didn't work right. My car has 130K, and the car I took it out of has 113. So now my car says it has 113. This means that the odometer reading stays with the cluster, and that's where the mileage information is stored. Wonder how I'm going to explain at inspection next year, that my car now has less miles on it then it did the year before. It also makes me wonder, if you buy a new cluster, will it read 0?
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Post by Paulaurora on Aug 7, 2017 6:42:05 GMT -6
If you go to the dealer they will program the cluster for you. or just drive a lot until 130:) and by time u come to inspection you will have 130 like the car wasn't driven  |
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Post by kaytrox on Aug 7, 2017 19:46:10 GMT -6
If you go to the dealer they will program the cluster for you. or just drive a lot until 130:) and by time u come to inspection you will have 130 like the car wasn't driven Problem with that is, I want to keep this car forever. So in the 15 months I've had it, I only put 8K on it. This is not something I would ordinarily do, because why have a car you love and not be driving it all the time? When I first got it, it was my only car and my daily driver. But because of a change of circumstances, it's actually become pretty much strictly my winter car. Now I also have a tiny, spiffy, sporty, spunky, little Australian Mercury Capri convertible (my Wonder Car) that I love cruising around in with the top down, from March until December. I actually look forward to rainy spring, summer, and autumn days so I can justify running the Aurora. Not to mention the occasional few days, to a couple of weeks that it's forced into service while I'm too concerned WONDERING why the Capri is doing what it's doing, to the point that I'm afraid to trust it. I tell people all the time that I would NEVER have that temperamental, uncomfortable, rattly, poorly designed and built Capri, if my Aurora wasn't so predictable and reliable. But I will add a footnote for the Merc. The entire concept and manual operation of it's convertible top is ingenious! It's a complicated multi-step process, but is easy as heck to do. I could put the top down, and have it back up again, in WELL under a minute. Maybe even 30 seconds. It's 1.6 L Mazda drive train is solid and reliable as well. But when it comes to belts, and alternators, and other needed issues, the guy who works on it for me tells me I ought to put Harley Davidson badging on it. |
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