Speedo rewinding difficulty

Rotazuk · Post by **Rotazuk** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 6:44 am

Hi

And no I don't want to rewind my speedo .
But I have always assumed when buying an import they have been rewound somewhat . Anyway is it any harder or easier to rewind a digital speedo ?
I could see that a good trick bit of electronic's could have it done is seconds but are they out there and is it done much on imports ?

Cheers

Chris

wjw · Post by **wjw** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:01 am

I assume you mean digital display, I've seen them reset, but not moved back.

Steve_t647 · Post by **Steve_t647** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:05 am

with the Digital speedo's they only reset to all 9's or 0's but from there a power drill on the speedo cable (the factory have a special gig for this) for however long and the odometer reading can count back up to what you want.

This was how they did it on a friends digital speedo they replaced the whole cluster and dash after a car drove into the drivers side (broke his leg's too), it was interesting to see the speedo maxed out on the gig counting up KM, and nice option to have factory KM on the car rather than Zero and explaining it.

I don't trunt any of them but look at the condition of the car, mine I know it was honest NZ New truck and Toyota service history and the 4y was piston slappy, all this 4wd actifity I expected it to give up and still it lives.

wjw · Post by **wjw** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:01 am

The K's on mine were real enough, problem was they hadn't serviced it well. Jap imports tend to spend alot of time idling in traffic, which doesnt clock up k's

badnuz · Post by **badnuz** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:57 pm

when i worked on a import yard we used to get the odos checked if the service records didnt come with the car... basically a certified odo checker would pull the speedo cluster out and if it showed any signs of tampering we wouldnt sell it retail ( ie wholsealed it to other yards). so if you've got a fresh import check the service records for the km at last service or get someone qualified to check if the speedo cluster has been tampered...

just my bit

Steve_t647 · Post by **Steve_t647** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:28 am

what if it is running bigger tires? That means a mod to the speedo? do they note a reason and date it or something to show why it was modded?

badnuz · Post by **badnuz** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:16 pm

we sold boring cars to boring people so they werent modded as such, and if our spedo cert guy said it "possibly" had been tampered then we sold it to other yards... but if they showed no signs of tampering we sold them ado certified, as we also gave a 12mth warrenty on all cars and had our own work shop......