How is it possible that a trip odometer is 62k miles and the regular odometer is 38k miles?
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May 10th, 2012
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This is on a 2005 Ford Ranger, and it’s a digital odometer. We’re sure it’s not an odometer that has flipped (i.e. that it’s really 138k).
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This sounds like a question for Car talk.
I don’t really have an answer.
This has one of those odometer displays where you toggle between trip and regular odometer readouts in the same little LCD window, right? Could it be that the trip readout has a decimal digit at the end, while the regular odometer readout doesn’t? That’s pretty common.
Tires that are not the original size & profile may affect that. I know it can throw off your speedometer.
At 76,000 miles someone last set the trip odometer. It is not unlikely to have 138,000 miles on a 2005 vehicle.
@thorninmud, it’s actually the other way around, but I thought about that when I double checked.
It can’t, not unless someone unhooked the odometer, or it had stopped working, and they drove a long time with it not catching miles driven. Although, since it is digital you would think the whole thing would break down together? If one stopped the other would stop. But, I don’t know about that technology, maybe it is two separate gadgets recording the miles?
Are you positive the trip is not 6254.9 or something like that?
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