How to correctly hav your odomitor set.
 

Can someone tell me how I would go about legally and correctly getting the odomitor set to the correct milage after I purchase a new guage cluster?

I am thinking about purchasing a used guage cluster and replacing the cluster in my 96 I30 already. If I do this, the odomitor will not correctly show the milage and I would like it to.

How do I do this? Will the dealer do it for me and how much might it cost?

Please help me guys. Thanks :)

Check the General Forum or 4th Maxima Forum. There was a post early (about 1-2 weeks ago). Someone had replaced his non-digital gauge to SE digital gauge, and he was able to set the correct mileage on it. You may want to email him on how-to's

SY
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Thanks SY. I will check it out.

OK, I cheked out every FAQ and thread in the 4th gen maxima section, but did not find this? Can anyone help me find this please? If you find it, please post the link to it here for me. :)

Thanks again for your help :)

OK, I contacted Nissan and here is what they said about the odomitor guage and acurate miles on them.

They sai that if I purchased the Speedo from them (the speed guage only) it would cost $245 for the part which includes a $35 milage setting fee. The fee is for them to have the facotry where the part comes from Set the milage to my current milage BEFORE sending the part.

They said that I can not bring in a speedo and have them set the milage. It doesn't work like that, it has to be set at the factory.

So, it sounds like what I need to do, is purchase the guage cluster, then seperately purchase a speedo from the factory and have the factory set the milage on it.

UGH!! Why can't anyone just LEGALLY set my milage on a used cluster and have this be done with??? :(

I agree with you. I just purchased a used SE instrument cluster in an attempt to fix my CEL 0104/0504 issues for my 1996 GXE and was wondering the same thing. The speedo I purchased has less mileage than the current one has, all I need is to "forward" the mileage, not rolling back. In addition, the odo is mechanical, not digital. I looked at the speedo I took out and even took off four screws at the back of it but it seems next to impossible to make adjustment.

$245 bucks to buy a new speedo and ajust mileage, huh?
But if the mileage is adjusted even before it arrives at the dealer, how can it accurately reflect the mileage anyway?

hasei: Yeah I agree, how would it correctly reflect the mielage unless you didn't drive the car from the time you placed the order until you installed the new one? Good question.

Well, I checked out Pennicle Nissan online for the Speedo. It was about $150 there and I called to make sure they adjusted the milage before sending it. They do.

I think what I will do is purchase the guage used and then purchase a new speedo from Pennicle Nissan online and install it myself. ::)

If you need any more info and I can help you please feel free to email or whatever. :)

Joe did a milage calibration, using a wave generator. It adds miles by sending the same signal as a speed sensor. It can only add miles. It must work for all years since they have the same speed sensor. http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=330344

You can also go to the DMV and get a Mileage Disclosure statement where you take BOTH clusters and have them certify that the odometer read xx,xxx miles, btu the real mileage was yy,yyy miles. Then it is simple addition.

This may be something to post in the FAQ's??????


OK everybody, I just got off the phone with the VA DMV asking them about how to go about changing out the odomiter or in my case the whole guage cluster and keeping it LEGAL. Here is what they told me.

As for bringing the new cluster in to the DMV along with your car or old cluster and getting a not saying that one has X miles and the other has Z miles, they have not heard of that before. Sorry phenryiv1. :)

What she did tell me was this: Federal Law 49-32704 says: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/49/32704.html

SO, from what the VA DMV told me, I can just set the correct miles on the odomitor that I am putting in the car and everything will be legal. This should not be a problem to do since I have the rolling or NON_Digital odomitor. Right???

I will let you all know what happens with this and IF i can actually roll the odomitor forward to the correct miles or not.

Thanks again EVERYONE for all your help with this. :)

Call the VA DMV and ask them what to do if the odometer stops working. Tell them that mechanical odometers have no way of being reset without manually adding miles. Because the Nissan odometers are "tamper proof" there is not other way to add the miles or take them away without risking breaking the gauge mechanism.

See what they say to that.

Mechanical odomitors like the digital ones?