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charmdog
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 Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 5:41 pm Post subject: faulty odometer? |
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| my odometer jumped 100K kilometers? My super low mileage 1986 Doka just jumped from 99,999 to 200,000 instead of 100,000 Not a joke. Anyone have similar experience? |
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Butcher
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| Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 9:00 am Post subject: Re: faulty odometer? |
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Simple to adjust back to what it was. I suspect the gears are just binding. Once you have it apart, you'll figure it out.
Search a bit and you will find a lot of odometer fixes. Do not waste your time about the do dad someone made to prevent the shaft from coming out. Waste of time and money. Does not fix the root cause. |
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MarkWard
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Location: Retired South Florida
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| Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 3:57 pm Post subject: Re: faulty odometer? |
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| charmdog wrote: |
| my odometer jumped 100K kilometers? My super low mileage 1986 Doka just jumped from 99,999 to 200,000 instead of 100,000 Not a joke. Anyone have similar experience? |
Sure  I've never seen that happen on any vehicle. I wonder if someone was "tweaking" the Odometer prior to your purchase. It can be reset as mentioned, but it is certainly a little frustrating getting all the digits in alignment on assembly.
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Wildthings
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| Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 5:06 pm Post subject: Re: faulty odometer? |
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| I would agree, someone likely tampered with the odometer and it sprung back to where it wanted to be. |
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charmdog
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| Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 5:35 pm Post subject: Re: faulty odometer? |
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| I know it sounds fishy...I've owned the truck for 12 years. I watched odometer gradually go from 75K to 99K ....then presto.... 200K kilometers? Only time I messed with dash was to check brake fluid? Entire truck is so "utilitarian" I always wanted to add a Tach and change speedometer to MPH. Truck came from Canada before me. Thanks for info |
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campism
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| Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 6:09 pm Post subject: Re: faulty odometer? |
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Yes. Mine was inop when I bought the van and I tried several times to fix it. After one such attempt it was working properly and suddenly began showing big miles on it. Rebuilt it again and it seems to have worked that time and has kept working since.
I do not think the "sprung back" theory has any validity, since my digging in the mechanism showed no way it might do such a thing, but I also do not know why mine would begin rolling up numbers on the left side of the dial instead of on the right as it should.
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Aryana
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| Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2021 7:41 am Post subject: Re: faulty odometer? |
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| Wildthings wrote: |
| I would agree, someone likely tampered with the odometer and it sprung back to where it wanted to be. |
Where it "wanted" to be? LOL! |
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