Thanks, that makes sense now. I almost think I should have caught that on my
own; maybe I am not so smart as I would like to think! All those electronic
gadgets yet they didn't make a 1 that would turn into a 2. I am not sure if
I should be pleased or disappointed with the high mileage. I have seen a few
of these cars sitting with super low miles, for no other reason than they
wouldn't run long enough to rack them up! If it worked for 130K miles, maybe
I can squeeze a few more out of it. On a side note, what part of the car
actually stores the mileage data? Is it in the dash itself? Thanks....
William
83 EFI
Edmonton, Canada
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Humphries" <mjhumphri@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 7:09 AM
Subject: Re: IML: Dreaded asterisk and odometer 81-83?
> 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
>
>
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