Odometer randomly lost 10,000 miles!

melb

hi there just wondered if anyone had this happen to them. My son's 2006 Nissan Almera has just gone down from 70,000 to 60,000. Not sure of exact before and after numbers but overall lost about 10,000 miles.

Anyone any idea how this might have happened?
thanks

Aylesbury_Duck

Computer glitch, presumably. Maybe the garage can reset/reboot it to see if it will recover the true figure.

loskie

are you sure it hasnt gone to 80000 but the lcd display is damaged or incomplete?

Aylesbury_Duck

loskie wrote: »

are you sure it hasnt gone to 80000 but the lcd display is damaged or incomplete?

Good thinking. This is probably what's happened.

Sea_Shell

But wouldn't the same part of the LCD display been needed for the 7 as well as the 8, ie the top right vertical line??

Carrot007

Meh! What sort of readout is it? LED that could be damaged as suggested? Old style rotating dials that could have slipped.


Although TBH either way That's crazy low milage for a car that age (The 09 in the house is going to hit 155K soon) and I would not want it.


Probably worth nothing either. Would not worry. Not worth paying someone to fix. The dash on my old focus had the cluster changed and restarted from 0. Mattered little to me. As long as the trip counter works you know enough! Start a spreadsheet if you really want to know! (trip counter at every fill up!)

nick74

Sea_Shell wrote: »

But wouldn't the same part of the LCD display been needed for the 7 as well as the 8, ie the top right vertical line??

It would, but then to a casual glance a 7 with the top right segment missing still looks very like a 7, whereas an 8 with the top right segment missing becomes a 6.

Arklight

Almeras are strange beasts. But if you treat one right it will treat you right.

melb

thanks for all replies. I don't know what sort od odometer it is tbh as it's my son's car.

He bought it in January and there are various problems (this isn't one of them). The car had done a steady 5 to 6 thousand miles a year over the previous 8 or 9 years according to the MOT record but then suddenly 15,000 miles last year under the same owner.

When he queried this apparent anomaly he was told the garage that performed the MOT had accidentally added 10,000 to the mileage and if he took it back to them to do the MOT they would rectify it.

The discrepancy didn't bother us and we had the MOT done at a trusted garage.

We just wondered if the car "losing" 10,000 miles was due to some fiddling with it previously.

By the way the figures are 76 and odd thousand miles to 63 and odd thousand miles so not round numbers.

Arklight

melb wrote: »

thanks for all replies. I don't know what sort od odometer it is tbh as it's my son's car.

He bought it in January and there are various problems (this isn't one of them). The car had done a steady 5 to 6 thousand miles a year over the previous 8 or 9 years according to the MOT record but then suddenly 15,000 miles last year under the same owner.

When he queried this apparent anomaly he was told the garage that performed the MOT had accidentally added 10,000 to the mileage and if he took it back to them to do the MOT they would rectify it.

The discrepancy didn't bother us and we had the MOT done at a trusted garage.

We just wondered if the car "losing" 10,000 miles was due to some fiddling with it previously.

By the way the figures are 76 and odd thousand miles to 63 and odd thousand miles so not round numbers.

Not strange at all. The Almera is a car that demands to be driven. An average owner may be able to confine themselves to only 5 or 6 thousand miles a year for a while. But eventually they'll cave. I did myself. It started with unnecessary journeys to the shop, forgetting things on purpose. offering lifts to friends who were the wrong side of where I was going.

Then it began at night. I would wake from a fretful sleep at 2, 3 in the morning, two words echoing around my brain.

"The Almera... the Almera!"

And I'd drive all night. It got so I was getting late for work. I couldn't sleep, concentrate, or getting anything else done. I realised I had a problem when I did 6300 miles over Easter alone driving up and down the M4.

With the support of my family I got rid of the car and moved onto an affair with something French, which sometimes doesn't open or even start.

I still think of the Almera though...

Bonniepurple

Arklight wrote: »

Not strange at all. The Almera is a car that demands to be driven. An average owner may be able to confine themselves to only 5 or 6 thousand miles a year for a while. But eventually they'll cave. I did myself. It started with unnecessary journeys to the shop, forgetting things on purpose. offering lifts to friends who were the wrong side of where I was going.

Then it began at night. I would wake from a fretful sleep at 2, 3 in the morning, two words echoing around my brain.

"The Almera... the Almera!"

And I'd drive all night. It got so I was getting late for work. I couldn't sleep, concentrate, or getting anything else done. I realised I had a problem when I did 6300 miles over Easter alone driving up and down the M4.

With the support of my family I got rid of the car and moved onto an affair with something French, which sometimes doesn't open or even start.

I still think of the Almera though...

I miss my husband’s Almera. Sadly, I did not miss the other car and the Almera went to car Heaven while exiting the roundabout!