Odometer Transfer
10-09-2023 | 12:45 AM
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Odometer Transfer
Before I ask my question here, I'm gonna preface this by saying I have seen what happens to people asking ODO questions about 4th gen F-bodies, and I'm not having it. Be nice to me, I'm new here, and this seems like the best place to get information on these cars.
I have a 98 Camaro base model, 3.8L V6, T5 manual trans, and today's specimen is a faulty cluster. Gee wow, after 25 years the cluster is bad, how about that? So, my gauges are all out of calibration, don't really car about that. My CEL is nothing more than a tiny glowing dot (I'm assuming there's probably something that chose to make a next inside the light cavity, obstructing the light, but also don't care). And the reason I'm here, the LCD is dead. When I say dead, I mean that the light is out, and illuminating it with a flashlight, as I would do to check ANY LCD ANYTHING, reveals it is not showing any numbers on it at all. D-E-A-D. I've had the car about a year and a half, it was an "unfinished project car", which ran and drove, and I needed a car, and I have no regrets. Gradually trying to piece it back together one piece at a time. When I got the car, the Speedo was stuck a above the 120mph mark, effectively 130mph, and sometimes would drop to 0 for no reason. I've verified the car has no speed pulse, with a brand new sensor, so the time I've had it, the thing has recorded no miles. Now on to my question.
With a dead LCD, I have no idea how many miles were on the car before the car lost speed pulse. I haven't bothered to chase the wiring for a circuit issue, yet, and don't care to at the moment. I intend to replace the cluster so everything actually works on the cluster. I don't really care if the new cluster and old cluster match on the ODO, but I would like to know just how many miles were on it before the speed circuit died. Dude told me about 100k, however reports from my insurance company came back with a bit more than that on it's last recorded sale. To be clear, I am located in Oregon, US, where ODO disclosure is not required by law once a vehicle gets to a certain age, ten years, if I'm not mistaken. Therefore, every sale after that has no reported mileage, and those reports indicate over 100k last report, and at least two owners following that record. I'm guessing closer to 200k at this point.
Is it likely that any shops could pull that information from it?
I have a 98 Camaro base model, 3.8L V6, T5 manual trans, and today's specimen is a faulty cluster. Gee wow, after 25 years the cluster is bad, how about that? So, my gauges are all out of calibration, don't really car about that. My CEL is nothing more than a tiny glowing dot (I'm assuming there's probably something that chose to make a next inside the light cavity, obstructing the light, but also don't care). And the reason I'm here, the LCD is dead. When I say dead, I mean that the light is out, and illuminating it with a flashlight, as I would do to check ANY LCD ANYTHING, reveals it is not showing any numbers on it at all. D-E-A-D. I've had the car about a year and a half, it was an "unfinished project car", which ran and drove, and I needed a car, and I have no regrets. Gradually trying to piece it back together one piece at a time. When I got the car, the Speedo was stuck a above the 120mph mark, effectively 130mph, and sometimes would drop to 0 for no reason. I've verified the car has no speed pulse, with a brand new sensor, so the time I've had it, the thing has recorded no miles. Now on to my question.
With a dead LCD, I have no idea how many miles were on the car before the car lost speed pulse. I haven't bothered to chase the wiring for a circuit issue, yet, and don't care to at the moment. I intend to replace the cluster so everything actually works on the cluster. I don't really care if the new cluster and old cluster match on the ODO, but I would like to know just how many miles were on it before the speed circuit died. Dude told me about 100k, however reports from my insurance company came back with a bit more than that on it's last recorded sale. To be clear, I am located in Oregon, US, where ODO disclosure is not required by law once a vehicle gets to a certain age, ten years, if I'm not mistaken. Therefore, every sale after that has no reported mileage, and those reports indicate over 100k last report, and at least two owners following that record. I'm guessing closer to 200k at this point.
Is it likely that any shops could pull that information from it?
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