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Old Jan 4, 2020 | 01:20 PM
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Hi I have a 97 trans am and found out that they came with digital odometers. In mine it has an analog so I am worried that some sly worm put that in to rollback miles on it. But I am hoping it may have just broke and someone properly matched the miles and just got analog. I was wondering if there is any way to check the miles on the original digital odometer, like if its stored in the computer. Do i have to pick up one of those shady "odometer fixers" or do i have to get a 97 digital gauge cluster. Thank you for your time, anything helps.
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Hi I have a 97 trans am and found out that they came with digital odometers. In mine it has an analog so I am worried that some sly worm put that in to rollback miles on it. But I am hoping it may have just broke and someone properly matched the miles and just got analog. I was wondering if there is any way to check the miles on the original digital odometer, like if its stored in the computer. Do i have to pick up one of those shady "odometer fixers" or do i have to get a 97 digital gauge cluster. Thank you for your time, anything helps.
I think the mileage is stored in the gauge cluster only so you wouldn't be able to figure out the true mileage.
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I think the mileage is stored in the gauge cluster only so you wouldn't be able to figure out the true mileage.
Thank you, if so that kinda sucks but it is what it is.
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Can you get a Carfax to see if the milage seems accurate?
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Can you get a Carfax to see if the milage seems accurate?
I have the my carfax which gives you the service records for free, and put it in the free rollback checker and came back good. The only thing was the last record was 7 years ago and had 97,000 miles and now just has 107,000 which worried me but maybe I'm just worrying a little too much. I might buy the full carfax to see if anymore stuff comes up. Thank you for the response.
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All 97’s don’t have the digital odometer. The digital odometer came later in 97.
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All 97’s don’t have the digital odometer. The digital odometer came later in 97.
oh really! That's great, thank you, that gives me a lot more confidence that it has 107000 miles. Thank you again.
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