jazzyjay

My car has 67k on it and the Cluster that I am looking at has 80K on it. If I swap the guages will it change to what my car really has or will it stay at 80k.

Fezzik

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It will stay at 80k

XGaSpAcHo

is it really this easy to commit odometer fraud?

Metal Maxima

iTrader: (30)

Unfortunatley, yes - it is.

scopium

um 67 on the car and 80 on the cluster? doesnt make sense since the cluster is only an output device.. it holds no memory.. all is stored in the ECU.. no matter if u keep changing clusters.. so there is no way you have 67 if its showing 80k

XGaSpAcHo

ok so maybe it's not that easy...

i do know for a fact that there are places that will set your odometer to whatever number you want it to read. it costs more on different cars because the higher end ones have the data recorded in multiple places.

jazzyjay

Does anyone have first hand Knowledge?

My car has 67k, the car in the salvage yard has 80k on it. I like keeping the original equipment and and modding another. Just for resale or future trade-in purposes.

XGaSpAcHo

i'd ask a body shop or call up nissan directly if you're unsure.

IceY2K1

iTrader: (3)

Take it to the dealer and they can reprogram the cluster to 67K, but I'd bet ONLY with the car there to verify what you're doing. Or if you don't find a dealer that will do it, you can just swap the circuit guts of the gauges depending on what you're doing.

As far as I know, the cluster circuitry and ECU both store the mileage, however they're independent so the 80K gauge will not just "update" to the 67K miles stored in the ECU.

One 4th gen member came up with an ingenious method of speeding up the OD circuit in the cluster to match the cars actual mileage using a frequency(function?) generator, however it took a few weeks. I'll see if I can find the thread.

IceY2K1

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Here is the link:
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....ency+generator

XGaSpAcHo

that's very cool but would that still work for him since he has to decrease the mileage on the new cluster he's putting in?

IceY2K1

iTrader: (3)

Oops...nope.

IceY2K1

iTrader: (3)

Dealer or swapping the circuit board is your only option then.

jazzyjay

Thanks for the info, hope everything works out right

BlackBIRDVQ

iTrader: (15)

ECU don't store no miles ! I have put in a cluster from a 00 with 43K miles on it into my 01 and the speedo didn't work due to differences between 01 and 00, but the mileage that the ODO said was 43K miles and I had 100K miles. I swapped clusters cause my tach stopped working due to crappy indiglo gauges I had. People get this idea that the ECU has miles stored in it... its a MYTH, it does not store no miles, you can't even bring that up with the Consult.

Fezzik

iTrader: (2)

Yeah. I've been told by a few nissan techs that the mileage is not stored in teh ecu. But no one will truely know unless they have probably a consult and check it out.

HNDA ETR

iTrader: (10)

yeah, a buddy of mine had the circuit board on his leased '00 swapped out...

no 'over the mileage' fine for him... LOL