The "astrisk" is to let people know when the odometer
rolls over 199,999 km or miles (Km's just happens to
occur first).
The number "1" at the front will never change to a
"2,3,4...hunderd thousands" And it should never go out
either....
If you take your 130,000 miles, multiply that by 8 and
then devide by 5 you will come up with 208,000. This
is an estimate for the 110,000 you see on your
display.
So the astrisk denotes that the odometer has rolled
over 199,000 kilometers, and what you see on your
dispay means the car has 130,000 miles on it, or
210,000 kilometers.
Remeber, as I said the odemeter will never read the
"2" it will read "110,000" but it means "210,000"
the 8/5ths will always be a good estimate. It works on
my '81 with approximately 246,000km, 153,000 Miles,
and there is no astrisk on my ,81 with 64,000 km,
40,000 miles
--- jsadowski <jsadowski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >From what I recall reading, that means the dash was
> replaced. That was the cars other big problem when
> new. Right behind fuel injection.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: William
> To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 9:50 PM
> Subject: IML: Dreaded asterisk and odometer 81-83?
>
>
> Hello folks,
> I have finally cleared the carcass of the 82
> Imperial out of my shop and I have set to work on
> the "refreshing" of the 83. I noticed on the IML
> website a reference to the "dreaded asterisk". I
> happen to have such a creature (I assume it refers
> to that little dot between "ODO" and "MI") on my
> odometer. What exactly does this mean? Does this
> explain why it is showing 130K miles or 110K Kms
> (these are not equal, for those who are metric
> illiterate ;-) ? I am going to have lots more
> questions as I enter these uncharted waters of early
> EFI, but I will start here....Thanks for the help.
> William
> 83 EFI
> Edmonton Canada
>
>
>
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