Thanks, that makes sense now. I almost think I should have caught that on my own; maybe I am not so smart as I would like to think! All those electronic gadgets yet they didn't make a 1 that would turn into a 2. I am not sure if I should be pleased or disappointed with the high mileage. I have seen a few of these cars sitting with super low miles, for no other reason than they wouldn't run long enough to rack them up! If it worked for 130K miles, maybe I can squeeze a few more out of it. On a side note, what part of the car actually stores the mileage data? Is it in the dash itself? Thanks.... William 83 EFI Edmonton, Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Humphries" <mjhumphri@xxxxxxxxx> To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 7:09 AM Subject: Re: IML: Dreaded asterisk and odometer 81-83? > The "astrisk" is to let people know when the odometer > rolls over 199,999 km or miles (Km's just happens to > occur first). > > The number "1" at the front will never change to a > "2,3,4...hunderd thousands" And it should never go out > either.... > > If you take your 130,000 miles, multiply that by 8 and > then devide by 5 you will come up with 208,000. This > is an estimate for the 110,000 you see on your > display. > > So the astrisk denotes that the odometer has rolled > over 199,000 kilometers, and what you see on your > dispay means the car has 130,000 miles on it, or > 210,000 kilometers. > > Remeber, as I said the odemeter will never read the > "2" it will read "110,000" but it means "210,000" > > the 8/5ths will always be a good estimate. It works on > my '81 with approximately 246,000km, 153,000 Miles, > and there is no astrisk on my ,81 with 64,000 km, > 40,000 miles > >