Tag: odometers
11 Posts
Mar 11, 2020
Can Working on a Car Increase the Odometer?
Did the mechanic's test ride turn into a road trip?
Aug 01, 2011
Is Di's husband right to be so smug about his new Chevy Tracker?
My husband just bought a Chevy Tracker with a smidge over miles on the odometer We think the prior owner might have hauled the Tracker behind a recreational vehicle there is a tow-hitch bracket under the Tracker's front bumper and...
Mar 01, 2010
Today: How it is that digital odometers don't lose their data.
Everyone knows it is illegal to change an odometer reading, and I wouldn't do it even if I knew how. My 1999 Chevy Malibu (the best car I've ever owned) has an electronic display. I am curious as to why the...
Feb 01, 2008
Ethical dilemma alert! Should Libby disclose her car's true mileage?
My boyfriend recently diagnosed (correctly, I assume, since all the idiot lights are no longer glaring at me all the time) a problem with the instrument cluster in my 1999 Grand Prix. He was able to pick up a replacement at...
Jun 01, 1998
Having regret over disconnecting an odometer cable to adhere to lease terms. What can I do to make it up to the dealer?
Help I think I'm in deep doo-doo The two-year lease on my Jeep Cherokee is about to expire I did the unthinkable I unhooked the odometer cable at the transmission But after miles my conscience won out and I reconnected...
Apr 01, 1996
Can a trip odometer be reset while the car is in motion?
Both of our cars have trip odometers which we always forget to reset when starting out on a trip -- or when we just want to measure the distance from point A to point B My husband insists that we...
Oct 01, 1993
If odometers reset at 99,999 miles, how can I tell if a car has 58k on it, or 158k?
I have been looking to buy a used truck The problem I've been running into is with the odometer On a lot of cars and trucks the odometer does not go to miles It goes to and then starts over...
Jun 01, 1992
My speedometer is out of whack and it's racking the miles up on my odometer.
I own a GTSI Ferrari The speedometer needle is on mph when the car is stand ing still I've checked out the mileage on the interstate mile markers and it's exactly ten percent over The mileage shows on the odometer...
Apr 01, 1992
I dropped the newspaper in the tub and obliterated it...
Some weeks ago I picked up my paper from my front porch and as I always do went right to your column My wife and I argue over who will get to read your column first so I try to...