Modern vehicles are built with an impressive number of options, and now you can even enjoy Deezer on your motor vehicle. On the other hand, some basic options are still quite functional. In actual fact, being familiar with the range of your Citroen C3 Picasso is part of the basic knowledge in order not to run out of gas. Most of us tend to do similar thing, wanting to reset the odometer of our Citroen C3 Picasso to zero after filling it up to know how many kilometers we’re going to drive . In this article, we will show you how to reset the odometer on Citroen C3 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 C3 Picasso.
How does the trip odometer operate on Citroen C3 Picasso?
Let’s start our content page with how your meter works. While it’s not necessary to understand how your motor vehicle works, it’s still wise and practical to know the fundamentals. If you’re concerned about about resetting your odometer to Citroen C3 Picasso , then this part will absolutely benefit you.
The odometer or odometer totalizer of your motor vehicle used to be mechanical, and has now been changed to electronic. The purpose of this change is mainly to fight against mileage fraud , obviously, some of us knew how to manipulate mechanical odometers to lower or reset the mileage of a Citroen C3 Picasso in order 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 basic on the Citroen C3 Picasso, it is a sensor that can be positioned in different spots based on the year of your Citroen C3 Picasso and that transmits the mileage data to the onboard computer.
Reset the daily mileage counter to zero on Citroen C3 Picasso
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Now let’s move on to the most essential step, how to reset the daily odometer of your Citroen C3 Picasso? Although this step is generally easy to carry out, some of you, new buyers of Citroen C3 Picasso for example, may not be comfortable with the procedure to perform this task.
We will now check out the different techniques to reset the trip odometer to zero on Citroen C3 Picasso:
- Hold the right button on your dashboard for some seconds until zero is displayed 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 couple of seconds until the odometer of your Citroen C3 Picasso is reset to zero.
- Finally, on some of the newer models, you may need to go 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 Citroen C3 Picasso, please go through our content page on this topic.
Rollback or lower the mileage of his Citroen C3 Picasso odometer
Last part, which may benefit some of you, how to lower the mileage of his Citroen C3 Picasso . Know already that this work is totally not allowed by the law , and that if you carry out this work, you risk up to 2 years in prison and 300, 000 euros fine. However, if you have doubts about the mileage of a Citroen C3 Picasso before you buy it, it might be interesting to know how fraudsters operate.
- Resetting a mechanical odometer to zero on Citroen C3 Picasso:
Even though they are becoming increasingly rare, mechanical odometers are the least difficult to tamper with, in reality, it was enough to simply identify 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 Citroen C3 Picasso. - Reset electronic odometer to zero on Citroen C3 Picasso;
At last, the now basic electronic odometers that were expected to fight fraud effectively are no more invulnerable than the mechanical versions. In actual fact, using the diagnostic socket of your Citroen C3 Picasso, it is possible to reset the odometer of your Citroen C3 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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If perhaps you have any additional questions about the Citroen C3 Picasso, do not hesitate to consult our Citroen C3 Picasso category.
