Hi,

 

I'm kinda convinced that my odometer is wrong and it's going up too fast. I went to Stoke on Monday and according to the trip meter I got around 500 miles to a tank (London to Stoke-on-Trent and back).

 

How can I accuratly check if it's right and is there anything that can cause this problem?

 

Cheers

 

Vijay

watch the odometer when on motorway, between the 1mile junction signs

It'll be in km I expect.

Hi,

 

I'm kinda convinced that my odometer is wrong and it's going up too fast. I went to Stoke on Monday and according to the trip meter I got around 500 miles to a tank (London to Stoke-on-Trent and back).

 

How can I accuratly check if it's right and is there anything that can cause this problem?

 

Cheers

 

Vijay

 

that is a 350 mile round trip i'd say looking at the UK road map....assuming its mostly M-way a TT could do 28-29 to the gal....12.5 gals or 56 litres....@ 89p = £50

 

not sure on tank capacity for a zed....anyone?

72 litres?

yeah I worked it out to be roughly a 350 round trip :( any ideas what could cause this?

im prob wrong but could be your wheels if they are not stock size, only thing i can think of, is your speed out too?

 

If you have a sat nav that gives you speed and distance

It's on 18's but I've had them for 7/8 years. I think this problem is more recent as in the last 6 months. I have a TomTom and the speedo is slightly out.

maybe its the speed sensor? or the odometer motor recieving wrong signal or the odometer motor faulty, never known 1 to add miles they usually get stuck and not add miles

Did you wheelspin all the way there and back? :rofl: ;)

well I am on Fulda tyres at the moment! lol

 

Got to get to the bottom of this cos it's putting my mileage up :(

:x: you can wind them back easily :x:

I'd like to keep it accurate for servicing etc. No intention of getting rid of the car so mileage doesn't really matter :)

Think AndyP was spot on. On the motorway on the weekend, and done 50 miles according to my TomTom but the trip meter done 80 miles. My car and clocks are UK but I did change the actual odometer unit to another one. Can't imagine why Jap/UK would be different though :( Anyone??

 

Cheers

 

Vijay

Vijay, have you put in a kmh unit? the exact conversion from 50 miles = 80km.......

oops.. sorry... maybe i should read all the posts first :p

Sounds like you've fitted a J-spec odometer (KM),the J-spec and UK spec odometers are geared differently.The speed sensor/signal isthe same item/output for J-spec and UK spec, the odometer reads the speed sensor signal therfore has to be geared differently to read miles or kilometers.

Cheers Eisegerwind. That makes total sense but just assumed they'd be the same. Time to remove the clocks again :)

 

Vijay

BUMP!!

 

Vijay, did you sort this problem out? I've just been swapping clocks etc and I have this exact problem :(

 

Rob

hello bud, no mate, my car's been in for a respray for the past 11 f'in months :(

hello bud, no mate, my car's been in for a respray for the past 11 f'in months :(

:shock: :shock: :shock: :rant:

 

Not good mate. Thanks anyway.

Sounds like you've fitted a J-spec odometer (KM),the J-spec and UK spec odometers are geared differently.The speed sensor/signal isthe same item/output for J-spec and UK spec, the odometer reads the speed sensor signal therfore has to be geared differently to read miles or kilometers.

 

 

Give that man a T-Shirt! Spot on answer! Thanks Eisegerwind!!

 

UK odometers have BLUE plastic gearing on the R/H side, JDM/Europe? odometers have BLACK plastic gearing on the R/H side.

 

Comparing them side by side you can see the gearing looks significantly different to each other.

 

Mystery solved :duffer:

cheers for the update, another job to do WHEN i get my car back ;)