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stampeed Tue May 01, 2012 4:03 pm



How many miles is it reading .. I read 12.628 but I didn't think that was possible.

Glenn Tue May 01, 2012 4:05 pm

It's 12,628.8 or 112,628.8 or 212,628.8 miles

85mph speedo... ever get it that fast? ;)

stampeed Tue May 01, 2012 4:11 pm

Nope fastest so far has been 75-80
So if it reach's 99999(9red) then it will reset?

gl98115 Tue May 01, 2012 5:08 pm

stampeed wrote:
So if it reach's 99999(9red) then it will reset?

Yup. It's called rolling over the odometer.

stampeed Tue May 01, 2012 6:13 pm

Well I guess its prob 112.000 because the guy before me had it sit for 8 years

kamzcab86 Tue May 01, 2012 6:20 pm

Red number is tenths of a mile; therefore, it's reading: 12,628.8.

Edit: If it's already rolled over, it would be 112,628.8... or even 212,628.8. With the early odometers, it's good to have a paper trail.

BitterBeerFace Tue May 01, 2012 6:37 pm

Hmm, no trip meter? (per tank of gas?) My '80 has no 1/10ths digit in the odometer, but it does have a trip meter... which is more common?

DAIZEE Tue May 01, 2012 6:37 pm

Does it have a resetable tripometer? Can't see clearly. The thing is also that you don't know if that's the original cluster. I know we changed mine 3 times so not really indicative. I know the km when I got it and I know the km when I had this 3rd engine put in plus the km on the engine. That's how I keep track. Not real accurate but it came from the states with a mile speedometer.

BillWYellowstone Tue May 01, 2012 8:11 pm

Back in the days when I started driving, odos never had the 100,000 position, cars were not really expected to go that far. Car dealers got bad reps for running the odo backwards or forewards to makke it look like less.

Wildthings Wed May 02, 2012 12:14 am

Or 312,628.8, that is only 10,000 miles a year or ~30 a day.



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