Odometer Resetting

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Topic: Odometer Resetting

Posted By: camwise
Subject: Odometer Resetting
Date Posted: May 10, 2005 at 10:18 PM

Hey I have a 1997 Jeep Wrangler and I changed some wiring for a CD player. Now whenever I turn off the Jeep all Miles I have added onto my jeep gets erased. When I start my jeep again. The Odometer resets back to when I changed my wiring. Help please. Sorry I couldn't be more descriptive.

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Posted By: Velocity Motors
Date Posted: May 10, 2005 at 10:33 PM

Try and set everything back to original with the CD wiring and see if the problem is still there. If it is, then try removing the battery terminal ( -) side for about 10 minutes and see if this resets the computer. If this doesn't work, you may have to bring it back into the dealer for a scsan to see if the BCM was damaged in any way from the CD installation... which I doubt, but you never know.

** Don't tell them that you did anything to the CD player and see if they can tell you what is wrong. If you tell them that you removed the CD player then they have something to blame and they will automatically blame the installation, kind of like when a remote starter is installed..... it's an easy out for them. **

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Jeff
Velocity Custom Home Theater
Mobile Audio/Video Specialist
Morden, Manitoba CANADA

Posted By: Francious70
Date Posted: May 11, 2005 at 11:09 AM

no mileage being added is a bad thing? posted_image

Paul

Posted By: vrsc
Date Posted: May 11, 2005 at 11:32 AM

Francious70 wrote:

no mileage being added is a bad thing?

Paul

True:D:D:D

Posted By: kgerry
Date Posted: May 11, 2005 at 12:36 PM

this happened on my BMW once years ago for a different reason and i drove it for about 5 years without it adding a km to the odo..... i would fix the problem just before you are ready to sell the vehicle... ha ha

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Kevin Gerry
Certified Electronics Technician
MECP First Class Installer

Owner/Installer
Classic Car Audio
since 1979

Posted By: Thorin_II
Date Posted: May 12, 2005 at 5:55 AM

yeah, just after you've figured out what u did and fix it, u may want to tell others. lol!!

Posted By: eba eba
Date Posted: May 15, 2005 at 11:10 AM

Dodge can still get the true reading, i knew a guy that this happened to and when he sold the car there was a bunch of thing worn out and the new owner brought it in to the dealer to get stuff fixed and they got the true millage from another computer on the car (i think tranny)

Posted By: ss-installer
Date Posted: May 15, 2005 at 7:40 PM

the only wire that even goes to the dash cluster is your dimmer and illumination wires (orange and ORANGE / white). try unhooking those and see what it does. worth a try?

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