Modern vehicles are furnished with an impressive quantity of options, and now you can even enjoy Deezer on your car. Nevertheless, some simple options are still quite useful. In actual fact, being aware of the range of your Citroen Ds5 is part of the simple knowledge in order not to run out of gas. A lot of us often do similar thing, wanting to reset the odometer of our Citroen Ds5 to zero after filling it up to know how many kilometers we’re going to drive . In this post, we will explain how to reset the odometer on Citroen Ds5 . In a first time, we will be enthusiastic about 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 Ds5.
How does the trip odometer function on Citroen Ds5?
Let’s start our article with how your meter works. Although it’s not necessary to discover how your car works, it’s still wise and practical to know the principles. If you’re thinking about about resetting your odometer to Citroen Ds5 , then this component will surely interest you.
The odometer or odometer totalizer of your car used to be mechanical, and has now been changed to electronic. The goal of this change is specifically to fight against mileage fraud , in truth, plenty of people knew how to manipulate mechanical odometers to reduce or reset the mileage of a Citroen Ds5 in order to sell it for more than its real value.
In the mechanical version, it works with a system of drums linked 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 Ds5, it is a sensor that can be positioned in different locations based on the year of your Citroen Ds5 and that transmits the mileage data to the onboard computer.
Reset the daily mileage counter to zero on Citroen Ds5
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Now let’s proceed to the most necessary step, how to reset the daily odometer of your Citroen Ds5? Although this step is quite often easy to execute, some of you, new buyers of Citroen Ds5 for example, may not be familiar with the procedure to carry out this process.
We will now look at the different approaches to reset the trip odometer to zero on Citroen Ds5:
- 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 until the odometer of your Citroen Ds5 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 options to reset it to zero
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If you want to reset the service counter of your Citroen Ds5, please read our article on this topic.
Rollback or lower the mileage of his Citroen Ds5 odometer
Last component, which may interest some of you, how to lower the mileage of his Citroen Ds5 . Know already that this act is totally not allowed by the law , and that if you execute this action, you risk up to 2 years in prison and 300, 000 euros fine. However, if you have doubts about the mileage of a Citroen Ds5 before you buy it, it may be interesting to know how fraudsters run.
- Resetting a mechanical odometer to zero on Citroen Ds5:
Nevertheless they are becoming more and more rare, mechanical odometers are the least difficult to tamper with, in reality, it was enough to just identify 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 Ds5. - Reset electronic odometer to zero on Citroen Ds5;
At last, the now basic electronic odometers that were supposed to fight fraud efficiently are no more invulnerable than the mechanical types. In actual fact, using the diagnostic socket of your Citroen Ds5, it is possible to reset the odometer of your Citroen Ds5 , with the help of a computer and software it is possible to modify the mileage data displayed on your dashboard.
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