Modern vehicles are built with an impressive number of features, and now you can even enjoy Deezer on your car. However, some simple features are still quite practical. In truth, knowing the range of your Citroen Grand C4 Picasso is part of the simple knowledge in order not to run out of gas. Many of us often do the same thing, wanting to reset the odometer of our Citroen Grand C4 Picasso to zero after filling it up to know how many kilometers we’re going to drive . In this article, we will describe how to reset the odometer on Citroen Grand C4 Picasso . In a first time, we will be keen on how this day counter works and, in a second time, how to reset this trip odometer and in a last part, if it is possible to decrease the mileage of its Citroen Grand C4 Picasso.
How does the trip odometer function on Citroen Grand C4 Picasso?
Let’s begin our content page with how your meter works. Although it’s not necessary to figure out how your car works, it’s still wise and practical to know the fundamentals. If you’re concerned about about resetting your odometer to Citroen Grand C4 Picasso , then this part will surely benefit you.
The odometer or odometer totalizer of your car used to be mechanical, and has now been changed to electronic. The purpose of this replace is principally to fight against mileage fraud , in actual fact, plenty of people knew how to manipulate mechanical odometers to reduce or reset the mileage of a Citroen Grand C4 Picasso to be able to sell it for more than its real value.
In the mechanical version, it works with a system of drums connected to a cable that is driven by the gearbox output shaft or the differential . Finally for the electronic version, the most common on the Citroen Grand C4 Picasso, it is a sensor that can be positioned in different locations based on the year of your Citroen Grand C4 Picasso and that transmits the mileage data to the onboard computer.
Reset the daily mileage counter to zero on Citroen Grand C4 Picasso
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Now let’s proceed to the most important step, how to reset the daily odometer of your Citroen Grand C4 Picasso? Although this step is quite often easy to execute, some of you, new buyers of Citroen Grand C4 Picasso for example, may not be comfortable with the process to execute this process.
We will now look at the different approaches to reset the trip odometer to zero on Citroen Grand C4 Picasso:
- Hold the right button on your dashboard for some seconds until zero is displayed on the trip odometer
- If this button does not function, you can use the right-hand counter comodo by pressing the button at its end for a few seconds till the odometer of your Citroen Grand C4 Picasso is reset to zero.
- Finally, on some of the newer models, you may need to search your car’s centre console and display, going through your car’s options to reset it to zero
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Rollback or lower the mileage of his Citroen Grand C4 Picasso odometer
Last part, which may benefit some of you, how to lower the mileage of his Citroen Grand C4 Picasso . Know already that this action is totally not allowed by the law , and that if you execute this work, you risk up to 2 years in prison and 300, 000 euros fine. Nevertheless, if you have doubts about the mileage of a Citroen Grand C4 Picasso before you buy it, it might be interesting to know how fraudsters run.
- Resetting a mechanical odometer to zero on Citroen Grand C4 Picasso:
Although they are becoming increasingly rare, mechanical odometers are the least difficult to tamper with, in fact, it was enough to simply locate the cable of the meter, disconnect it, and plug a drill on it to produce it turn upside down and raise or lower the mileage of its Citroen Grand C4 Picasso. - Reset electronic odometer to zero on Citroen Grand C4 Picasso;
Finally, the now common electronic odometers that were expected to fight fraud effectively are no more invulnerable than the mechanical types. In truth, using the diagnostic socket of your Citroen Grand C4 Picasso, it is possible to reset the odometer of your Citroen Grand C4 Picasso , with the help of a computer and software it is possible to change the mileage data displayed on your dashboard.
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