It's the cluster that stores the astrisk and milage
information. Taking the cluster from one car to the
other will retain the original milage to the cluster
not the car it installed in.
--- William <mopar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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