Weird mileage issue

[Craigybaby]

Afternoon folks,
Just noticed my mileage as showing 177,600. At service and mot in September 2013 it's recorded as 174,281 and I've no reason to doubt that...been racking my brains as to where I've been since then and fairly certain only trips of note have been surrey, lakes, Scarborough and Chester. I live in leeds so that's a max of 1000 miles. I do the odd nursery run as well but that's a 3 mile round trip. So I'm fairly certain at least 2000 miles are showing which shouldn't be. Anyone else ever heard of an odometer clicking on extra miles, say going straight from 175,000 to 177,000? Has David Blaine been in my car? Am I going mad? Should I get help?
Cheers, craig

 

[Lowtimer]

Aliens...

 

[Craigybaby]

Clearly you're not driving it enough, and its sneaking off on its own....

 

[edh]

ORIGINAL: sr.944man

Clearly you're not driving it enough, and its sneaking off on its own....

Where's the "Like" button? []

 

[Craigybaby]

on the positive side, maybe this has actually been happening for the last 22 years and i actually own a low miler.....about 60k by my reckoning. might be a bit tricky to prove come resale however.

 

[Hallsy]

Maybe the speedo is over reading, and you've been crawling along the motorways at 45mph!!

 

[Craigybaby]

Bit annoying really, from an insurance Point of view might have to buy some more miles. Stupid car.

 

[craiginuk]

Teenage son joyriding? A mate's mum was astonished by the mileage she was getting on her '87 corolla until her son crashed it into a tree. They used to take the car for a night and fill it with petrol so was getting amazing consumption when she entered the mileage into old manual log book. Identities and names may have been changed in this story...

 

[pse_SC]

Stupid car.

Don't say that - it might hear you[&:]and put even more miles on[].

 

[Craigybaby]

My kids are 1 & 3, but wouldn't put it past them. Although the 1 year old prefers to throw stones at it.

 

[bighead]

in the 80s ............My Brother use to "steal" my Capri 2.8 for a drive when I was asleep !!

 

[944Turbo]

ORIGINAL: craiginuk

Teenage son joyriding? A mate's mum was astonished by the mileage she was getting on her '87 corolla until her son crashed it into a tree. They used to take the car for a night and fill it with petrol so was getting amazing consumption when she entered the mileage into old manual log book. Identities and names may have been changed in this story...

When I used to borrow my dads primera eGT, he used to monitor the fuel, drive it hard and it would drink it but be gentle and it would go a lot further. I used to rag it and put a fiver in to top it up - he still believes my light right foot eeked out an economy record , full tank to empty
Tony

 

[Craigybaby]

Update for anyone interested

My mileometer is Knackered. My suspicions were aroused last week when i looked down and the mileometer was ticking over at the same speed as the trip meter!
So how do mileometers work? What could have gone wrong? What are my options? Replace with a new or secondhand odometer?

 

[Mike_Pollock]

You can have a look in the speedo head, but its probably easier to get another - Elliott can probably help.

 

[Craigybaby]

Cheers, I'll try and get hold of him, I'm already over my 5k insurance mile limit but only done about 1500, god knows what the implications for that are the other than I'm probably not insured. Any guess on how much an Indy will charge to replace one?
Regards

 

[Bob]

It is very easy DIY to get the instrument binnacle out:

http://www.clarks-garage.com/shop-manual/body-24.htm

A new S/H dash can be bought from all the breakers and the mileage dials easily spun round to whatever is correct