Odometer change?!

[daljames]

So i phoned Graeme Cooper Automotive (LR specialist in Sydney) yesterday as they had a few stamps in the logbook of the 97 Autobiography i bought a few months back so i could check up on what had been done to my Rangey. Good and bad, a new top hat liner engine was put in in Feb 09 total invoice $9k ( how goods that!) and it was done at 182000kms. with a service 2k later, then a service in Feb 10 at 194k. Only thing is, my odometer is showing 144000k?! Same VIN. Build date Mar 97. However when i hook my Faultmate up the build date on the BECM is 30/12/97. I thought, and im after a correction now, that the BECM, GEMS and instrument cluster all stored the odo reading and the highest was used?

Im not that bothered about the K's, with a new radiator and top hat lined engine in fact im real happy! I just want to know how the hell they changed the K's!

[isuzurover]

From another forum - may be of interest.


From my experience I understand it to be a Federal Law not governed by but imposed by the state where the offence took place. In 1988 I traded my VH SS with 98000ks on another car. Two weeks later I saw it advertised in a car yard showing 26000ks. I asked the Dealer what he was trying to pull but he said he was unaware and would report it. I said something like "yeah right that's bull****". Six weeks later I received a summons to appear as a witness for the Dealer. The wholesaler, who bought the car from the yard I traded it to, had been the one who tampered with it before onselling it to where I saw it advertised. I learnt from my day in court that there were many Perth wholesalers who were bringing cars over from Melbourne and Brisbane (because at that time cars were cheaper there than Perth and rego details were not available between the states) and winding back the odometers.
The Wholesaler who tampered with my car got a criminal record, a $12000 fine, had to pay compensation to the dealer of $6000 and was banned from holding a Dealers license for life. The charge he was convicted of was Fraud and he was told he could have got up to 10 years jail. It was also stated during the preceedings that when an instrument cluster is changed the Ks of the old and the new cluster must be recorded and this info passed on to any subsequent owner.
That's my experience from Perth anyway.

[p38arover]

However when i hook my Faultmate up the build date on the BECM is 30/12/97. I thought, and im after a correction now, that the BECM, GEMS and instrument cluster all stored the odo reading and the highest was used?

Only the BECM and odo, I believe. It's possible both were changed.

A build date of 30/12/97 suggests it is a '98 model. The letters in front of the VIN digits will tell you. The letters VA = 1997, WA = 1998.