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Old Jun 22, 2006 | 11:15 PM
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Did ya'll know that with a lap-top & the right program & about 15 minutes under the hood & you can re-set your odometer ?
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Old Jun 23, 2006 | 12:42 AM
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did you kno that this is illegal..not to menchion that the car is inspected with a certain number of miles on it..so if you decide to sell (the only reason the odometer really even matters) that they will know, notice, and youll get into alota trouble
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Old Jun 23, 2006 | 01:44 AM
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can u do it on a 94?? i just swapped clusters and it had 40k more now.. not that mileage on this ******* car matters at all i just put new rear, tranny and engine in it and replaced the whole interior basicaly so its basically better then new because we all know gm didnt know what they where doing when they put these fbodies together
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Old Jun 23, 2006 | 07:36 AM
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I suspect he's referring to illegally rolling back the 98-02 digital odometers . . .
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Old Jun 25, 2006 | 09:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Duffster
I suspect he's referring to illegally rolling back the 98-02 digital odometers . . .
Good observation
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Old Jun 26, 2006 | 11:10 AM
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i hope that you fry your pcm while doing it.......
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Old Jun 26, 2006 | 01:17 PM
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Originally Posted by ls1wfo
Did ya'll know that with a lap-top & the right program & about 15 minutes under the hood & you can re-set your odometer ?
This would be nice if you had to replace your gauges and the one you are replacing it with has more milege than your car actualy has.

But to do it on your own for no reason but to make it look like you have less miles, that is wrong.
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Old Jun 26, 2006 | 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by shouldaboughttheZ
This would be nice if you had to replace your gauges and the one you are replacing it with has more milege than your car actualy has.

But to do it on your own for no reason but to make it look like you have less miles, that is wrong.
Yes, if your adjusting it for a cluster failure is ok.

But otherwise, if you are using to lower the mileage, you are playing with fire.
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If you have that problem you are suposed to take it to a dealership and they will do it for you, Their is a nvrom chip in their. They will fix it and place a sticker on the door jam of the door saying it has been done. Atleast that is the legal way to do it that i know of. This was one of that last things i learned in my auto tech class before we all graduated. I miss those guys.
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