im about to swap my 85 speedo for a 145 nd have already broken a speedometer by trying to change the reading so i was wonder what is the easiest safest way to change the odometer reading to 63938

 

I am sure you can send it to a shop and they can do it professionaly. If you want to do it yourself, just start unscrewing it till you can get to the wheels. Adjust them where you need them to be and reassemble.

 

Don't use a drill motor and turn it back. The speedo has an anti-tampering tell-tale that will show up if you do this.

The presence of this anti-tampering mechanism is debatable, but it's referenced in my owner's manual.

 

I could tell you how to do it, but I'm not going to... There's no reason to have a thread on the forum so all the shady a holes can fake low mileage. If you can't figure it out on your own, you should probably just leave it alone. Document the old mileage and the new mileage and keep the document with the car.

 

im not trying to alter anything im getting a 145 speedo nd i want it to read the same as my current speedo

 

go to the junkyard on a spare day and just take one apart to see how it can be done...

 

Swap the odometer rolls from the old speedo into the new one.

 

Easiest way to do it.

 

man u guys are real helpful...

 

I know that was probably sarcasm, but I thought Apeiron's suggestion was a great one

 

It's not so much that anyone doubts your integrity with an entire 21 other posts not asking how to alter an odometer. As much as this is a public forum and any information posted here exists forever in cyberspace, where someone looking to misrepresent a car might find it and use it to commit fraud. Realistically, all of these cars are mileage exempt at this point. But I still don't really feel comfortable telling everyone in the world how to adjust the mileage.

It's not like a number on the dash is going to leave you stranded.

 

No sarcasm at all, that's the easiest way to do it.

 

im not sure if every one nows this, but you all now its illegal to tamper with the od at all...but if you dont care i would say take apeiron is right. or lol you can turn it by hand with out taking it apart, as mentioned ealier a drill will mess it up but by hand it should be fine, may take a while tho.

 

I meant his reply to you

 

What he's doing isn't tampering:

Title 49 United States Code Section 32704

(a) Adjusting Mileage. - A person may service, repair, or replace
an odometer of a motor vehicle if the mileage registered by the
odometer remains the same as before the service, repair, or
replacement. If the mileage cannot remain the same -
(1) the person shall adjust the odometer to read zero; and
(2) the owner of the vehicle or agent of the owner shall attach
a written notice to the left door frame of the vehicle specifying
the mileage before the service, repair, or replacement and the
date of the service, repair, or replacement.

 

He is 100% wright Note any changes of a cluster and or odemeter and If u sell the car place a sticker on the driners side stating what was done. ex.Changed odemeter original reading 111,111 new odemeter reading at time of change 000,000 date 12/12/1200) I would also print and sign my name along with the date when this was done.

 

something I thought would be "cool" is after a new engine swap (from a newly built engine) to turn the odometer to "0" miles since I associated the odometer with engine mileage and not chasis miles. Ofcourse, I know this is not legal, but I don't plan on getting rid of my car so I wouldn't purposefully deceive anyone. I always thought that would be better than trying to do math everytime you'd like to get accurate mileage for your engine for whatever reason (break-in period, oil changes, etc)... I might just do that anyway. I'm not worried about it being illegal since there are already a few "anti-federal" enhancements (*cough cough* exhaust) on my car and my state doesn't do emissions testing...

 

i dont really see why it matters so much what the odometer says anyways
but... swapping the rolls would be the way to go though, i think.


good luck....

 

o i stand corrected ive learned something today