My wife has an 85 gs that came without a guage cluster, So we have picked up one to put in it. So the odometer reading is of corse wrong and we do not know what is correct. So I would like to roll it back to 0. Have any of you done this or know how?






Please leave the Legal MUMBO/Jumbo out of this. In GA any car older than 10 years is exempt from an accurate ODO reading.

 

Dunno how to do it, but I wish I lived in GA so my rx7 could have 0 miles

 

I only know about GA and NC, but in GA you dont even need a title on an 86 and older car, DMV could care less what the odo says.

In NC the title has a place to put a check mark if the miles on the ODO are incorrect, you just put the check mark and dont have to worry about it after that.

 

Yes, 10 years old is when vehicles in WA are also exempt from the federal odometer disclosure statement crap. They instated it before my friend picked up his '82 RX-7, and he had to fill out a statement when he picked it up in '90. It took him by surprise.

 

well ive never done this but couldnt you apply power to the cluster and see if you cant make it go forward i would think that if it went forward all the way then it would go back to zero. i dont know im just shootin out ideas

 

hook a drill up to the speedo cable

carl.

 

Does that really work or have you just watched to many movies?

 

put it on stands and floor it in reverse!

 

I did the drill thing, it took the weekend of continous spinning to get like 10k off.
It was on a company car that I exceed what they thought I was drving.

 

The drill thing works to move the odo forward, for example if you need an accurate odo and got a new one that has less on it than the original. Its just slow since my cordless drill was only able to turn my speedo to 100 km/h, or something like that.

 

I guess I know what I am doing this weekend.

 

It's not rocket science: pull the speedo out of the cluster, take the face off to expose the numbers and roll them to the zeros.

 

You should answer posts like this in PMs...now in 2 years all of the RX-7s being sold on the forums are going to have fraudulent odometers.

 

It ain't rocket science, but it don't work like that.



Use a Dremel or a Rotozip. Just don't fall asleep or you'll be into another million miles.

 

Every body already changes out the 85 MPH ones for the 140's and lots of people like to change the SA cluster to the FB one to get rid of the odd tach/volt meter.

And it is not Illegal

 

I guess I could roll it forward to 200K, I have a spare spedocable I could connect out side of the car.

 

yeah, no ****

It does acutally work in reverse though. I wasn't sure if it would, but it does. Looks like I'll be making mine read 275xxx again instead of 156xxx like the new one does.

 

when i get a new motor, im putting mine back to zero, its not like im going to sell my car anyway..

 

You know the flex extension for the Dremel? It's nothing but a speedo cable inside.

 

Yes, it does.

 

its kinda scary if you think about it how badly someone could get scammed by that if you were selling a car... People would pay big bucks if you said a restored rx-7 was garage kept and only had 10, 000 miles on it when really it was beat to crap with 120 000 miles on it.

 

NimrodTT,

I stand corrected. I had tried to roll them years ago, but this time ( since you insisted ) I had to really try, but a piece of cake ( especially since I had an old 85 mph one sitting in the garage). I learned something today. Thanks!

David G

 

thats not scary, just good marketing

 

Just don't kick it in the grill while yelling "I gotta take a stand!"


My odometer only reads up to 99K miles, so it is only obvious being a 1980 that it has at least wrapped 100K once, but who knows how many more.

And is it the mileage of the chasis or the engine that matters?

New cars have digital odometers and the mileage is kept in the car's computer. So if you replace the odometer it still knows how many miles are on the chasis.

If you really wanted to verify if a car is original you may be able to get a dealership to look up the service records on the VIN.

 

If you are into old cars, (Not concours type stuff) yu are more worried about what kind of condition is the frame and body in, and wether or not it runs long enough toget it home so YOU can try your hack skills on it! not how many miles. at this point in time anybody that claims less than 100K I would be sceptical about,

Not saying they don't exist casue I am sure there is some sicko pervert out there keeping some perfectly good RX-7 locked up in a garage out there.

Criminal I tell you who in there right mind would subject a rotary powered car to such torment, I mean they were meant to be driven.

Down with the perverts, SET ALL ROTARIES FREE! humans are two perverted to co-exist with rotaries!

Oh **** got some of that PETA crap mixed up with my car crap!