How to reset primary odometer to 0

I messaged Instrumentclusters.com and they said they will not set an odometer back to 0.

I went with a Dakota Digital dash, it lets you set whatever mileage you want once, then it can't be changed afterwards. Mine's digital display but I like the analog gauges too.

https://www.dakotadigital.com/index.cfm/page/ptype=results/category_id=784/mode=cat/cat784.htm

LoCascio_Inc said:

I fully understand why advertising and then selling a vehicle with the wrong mileage is illegal and wrong. But the title to the truck had “mileage not accurate” clearly input by the tax office when I transferred the title to my name. I literally cannot sell it in the future with “accurate” mileage. Why would it matter at this point?

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IMO, as long as your forthcoming with mileage not being accurate in any future for sale ad you may put up you should be ok. It's only an issue when someone tries to scam someone IMO With that said, I'm not a lawyer or in the law enforcement field so my opinion may be null and void.

I changed mine like the other pics when going to the escalade cluster, I did break the plastic thing. I took clear plastic tape and carefully made another, works great a year or so later.

On the old stuff I used to work on, new speedometers came set at zero along with a decal to record old mileage on and attach to door frame .

LoCascio_Inc said:

I messaged Instrumentclusters.com and they said they will not set an odometer back to 0.

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A lot of company will not set it back to "0"
Because back in the days people would move mileage back to sell used cars at "low mileage" prices

LoCascio_Inc said:

I’m the middle of an extensive restoration and Cummins swap and I want to reset it back at zero to more easily track future mileage and engine break-in and whatnot. Can anyone point me to instructions on how to do this properly?

Before anyone rides in on their high horse of justice to remind me how it’s illegal to tamper with an odometer just keep it to yourself... We’re all aware. The current cluster was replaced with another used one by the previous owner and has completely wrong mileage already. Plus, the speedo and odometer were not operational for about 15k miles.

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It’s not illegal to have a replacement odometer start at zero if a speedo shop can’t fix it. You just need to disclose the previous mileage accumulated on the vehicle if you sell it. Most speedo shops have a sticker they put on the truck stating previous mileage if your original can’t be fixed.
If yours is broken As long as you disclose that information on the original odometer and the replacement you can sell cars with wrong mileage broken odometers etc. you just can’t move the accumulated mileage or change the odometer to a lower mileage number and sell the car representing that lower mileage as actual mileage. That’s the fraudulent part of the transaction as the buyer is fraudulently represented a car with stated lower miles than true actual mikes

But truthfully personally you dont need a odometer with zero miles. You can keep track of mileage with any working odometer. I like knowing the exact mileage I have on my truck. 396,000. If it breaks I would want the replacement to be at the mileage where it was repaired.

My truck currently has 190K on it but I'm putting in a Z56 cluster which has about half those miles in it. I have not seen a good thread for how to crank the miles up on the odometer as I'd like to match my current miles. Any suggestions?

I put a Denali cluster in my 97. The Denali cluster had less miles than my OE cluster. I took a drill and spun the Denali cluster to match my OE cluster. It worked good, but you have to watch that you dint go to fast as this can melt the plasric gears. I hooked the drill on the stem sticking out in the trip OD side. I did have to put the drill in reverse to spinn the miles forward. If I could have put the drill on the other side, then I would have been able to put the drill in forward, but because I had to turn the drill around, I had to put it in reverse. The only issue I have is that the trip OD sometimes hangs up at 99.9 miles. The regular OD is fine. IDK if the Denali cluster did that before I got it or not. It was in kind of ruff shape. I did have to swap out all of the steeper motors for the gauges, not speed o or tach with my OE ones. I also did have to reset the speed o to make it read rite. I think I changed tire size. It wasnt off a lot.

Assuming that the Z56 doesn’t preclude doing so, you could swap the odometer over. It’s held in by a couple of torx screws.

https://www.gmt400.com/threads/changing-mileage-odometer-cluster-swap.46145/


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