Can the odometer be tampered with?
#31
I had an idea a while back that would work depending on how drastic a correction the "yellow box" allowed for. You could leave the stock gearing, but install the yellow box and set it for a 60.9% correction factor. This would allow us americans to switch over to KPH, which would now give a correct MPH reading. By doing this you would cut mileage on your car by 60.9% (at 50,000 miles you would be reading 31,075! I'm pretty sure Uncle Sam would frown upon this idea though.
#33
It's pretty damn difficult to do if you aren't an electrical engineer or the like. The older style odometers that were just a set of gears are EXTREMELY easy to alter. I was actually very dissapointed when I realized how easy it was. By a fed investigation, 1 in 4 cars have odometer fraud. This would scare the $h*t out of me except most of these fraud odo's are done to much older cars [99k is a lot more appealing than 109k] with simpler guage clusters.
#35
There may be a simpler way- but I actually like where I'm going with mine....
What physically effects the VSS? I.e. Is it like gear with a magnet on it and an electronic pickup, or what?
Lengthen the wire on the vss, and hook it up to something that emulates whatever drives the signal on the car.
Obviously there's a simpler way to do this, but i'm obviously not an electrical engineer.
What physically effects the VSS? I.e. Is it like gear with a magnet on it and an electronic pickup, or what?
Lengthen the wire on the vss, and hook it up to something that emulates whatever drives the signal on the car.
Obviously there's a simpler way to do this, but i'm obviously not an electrical engineer.
#37
Originally Posted by 530s2k,Apr 18 2006, 06:46 PM
There may be a simpler way- but I actually like where I'm going with mine....
What physically effects the VSS? I.e. Is it like gear with a magnet on it and an electronic pickup, or what?
Lengthen the wire on the vss, and hook it up to something that emulates whatever drives the signal on the car.
Obviously there's a simpler way to do this, but i'm obviously not an electrical engineer.
What physically effects the VSS? I.e. Is it like gear with a magnet on it and an electronic pickup, or what?
Lengthen the wire on the vss, and hook it up to something that emulates whatever drives the signal on the car.
Obviously there's a simpler way to do this, but i'm obviously not an electrical engineer.
#38
Originally Posted by scottrunsxc,Apr 18 2006, 11:48 AM
I had an idea a while back that would work depending on how drastic a correction the "yellow box" allowed for. You could leave the stock gearing, but install the yellow box and set it for a 60.9% correction factor. This would allow us americans to switch over to KPH, which would now give a correct MPH reading. By doing this you would cut mileage on your car by 60.9% (at 50,000 miles you would be reading 31,075! I'm pretty sure Uncle Sam would frown upon this idea though.
but even the modifry yellow jacket goes to 25%.....now if someone knew how to wire two of them together and would PM me with that info, that would be awesome
it probably is doable to hide a few miles on the car, but i don't think it is worth the hassle....
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