Modern vehicles are equipped with a notable quantity of features, and now you can even enjoy Deezer on your car. Nevertheless, some simple features are still quite useful. Indeed, being familiar with the range of your smart fortwo is part of the simple knowledge in order not to run out of gas. A lot of us often do the same thing, wanting to reset the odometer of our smart fortwo to zero after filling it up to know how many kilometers we’re going to drive . In this article, we will explain how to reset the odometer on smart fortwo . In a first time, we will be keen on how this day counter functions 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 smart fortwo.
How does the trip odometer operate on smart fortwo?
Let’s begin our content page with how your meter functions. Although it’s not required to discover how your car works, it’s still wise and practical to know the basics. If you’re wondering about resetting your odometer to smart fortwo , then this part will absolutely interest you.
The odometer or odometer totalizer of your car used to be mechanical, and has now been changed to electronic. The intent of this replace is mainly to fight against mileage fraud , indeed, some of us knew how to change mechanical odometers to lower or reset the mileage of a smart fortwo in order to sell it for more than its real value.
In the mechanical version, it functions 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 basic on the smart fortwo, it is a sensor that can be located in different locations depending on the year of your smart fortwo and that transmits the mileage data to the onboard computer.
Reset the daily mileage counter to zero on smart fortwo
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Now let’s proceed to the most important step, how to reset the daily odometer of your smart fortwo? Although this step is quite often easy to accomplish, some of you, new buyers of smart fortwo for example, may not be comfortable with the procedure to execute this task.
We will now look at the different ways to reset the trip odometer to zero on smart fortwo:
- Hold the right button on your dashboard for several seconds until zero is shown on the trip odometer
- If this button does not operate, you can use the right-hand counter comodo by pressing the button at its end for a few seconds until the odometer of your smart fortwo is reset to zero.
- Finally, on some of the newer models, you may need to proceed through your car’s centre console and display, going through your car’s configurations to reset it to zero
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If you want to reset the service counter of your smart fortwo, please browse our content page on this topic.
Rollback or lower the mileage of his smart fortwo odometer
Last part, which may interest some of you, how to lower the mileage of his smart fortwo . Know already that this act is totally forbidden by the law , and that if you accomplish this act, you risk up to 2 years in prison and 300, 000 euros fine. Nevertheless, if you have doubts about the mileage of a smart fortwo before you buy it, it might be interesting to know how scammers run.
- Resetting a mechanical odometer to zero on smart fortwo:
Although they are becoming progressively rare, mechanical odometers are the easiest to tamper with, in reality, it was enough to simply find the cable of the meter, disconnect it, and plug a drill on it to make it turn upside down and raise or lower the mileage of its smart fortwo. - Reset electronic odometer to zero on smart fortwo;
Finally, the now basic electronic odometers that were expected to fight fraud efficiently are no more invulnerable than the mechanical variants. Indeed, using the diagnostic socket of your smart fortwo, it is possible to reset the odometer of your smart fortwo , with the help of a computer and software it is possible to change the mileage data displayed on your dashboard.
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To find more tips on the smart fortwo, take a look at the smart fortwo category.
