Usually you have to report the exact mileage of the chassis at the time of the gauge swap. Then they give you a sticker to put on the new gauge cluster that states the mileage of the old one.

If you DON'T do this, the vehicle will become a TMU (True Mileage Unknown) and you definitely do not want that on your car. It will knock 3-5k off the value of the vehicle. So be sure to report EVERYTHING to the proper people. just because your state doesn't report it, does not mean that you don't need to find a way for someone like... Carfax... to know. Otherwise, when they enter the mileage and the VIN pulling a carfax report.. it will show odometer rollback, and as such either fraud or TMU. Both bad for you.

 

My original odometer stopped working at 102,000 miles and I replaced it with one that had 187,000 miles on it. I asked my DMV (Missouri) how I could document this and they told me Missouri had no process for cars >10 years old (they are all exempt). I've written to CarFax and am waiting their response.

 

Carfax doesn't matter at that point. There records are mostly compiled from DMV records, so if the DMV reports the car as "mileage exempt" carfax will stop receiving mileage reports. Now if you take your car into a dealership there is a chance they will submit your mileage but it really isn't that common. I have come across a couple carfax reports with mileage readings from dealerships, but not many. Also smaller shops can report mileages but they never do, they could honestly give 2 ***** about things like that and it's just a waste of time. I have seen one carfax report that was VERY detailed though, all the work was done at the same dealership and they reported everything, it had oil changes, maintaince, etc, it was pretty cool and definitly was nice from a buyers perspective.

MI is the same way, anything older than 10 years they don't care about the mileage.

 

True, but having documentation will make a mileage exempt vehicle that much more valuable to a buyer. TMU is never a good thing to have hanging.

Documentation and pictures = Satisfied buyer.

 

Ive seen his car, its sitting totally stripped of everything in his garage.

 

A. If he is really replacing every damn thing on the car, what's a few more hundred dollars for a cluster?

B. His reasoning to zero it out is suspect....I think anyone reading that first post assumes he is not going to properly report this to the DMV (hence, him mentioning it being illegal, which it isn't if you properly report it).

 

I have had a clocks conveted from km to miles on a mk2 mx5, just google milage correction.

Something like this but in your area.
http://www.milemagic.com/main.htm?gc...FRgYgQodSFOPFQ