Modern automobiles are built with an impressive quantity of options, and now you can even enjoy Deezer on your car. On the other hand, some basic options are still quite useful. Indeed, being familiar with the range of your Fiat Grande Punto is part of the basic knowledge in order not to run out of gas. Many of us often do similar thing, wanting to reset the odometer of our Fiat Grande Punto 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 Fiat Grande Punto . 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 Fiat Grande Punto.
How does the trip odometer work on Fiat Grande Punto?
Let’s start our content with how your meter works. Although it’s not necessary to understand how your car works, it’s still wise and practical to know the basics. If you’re thinking about about resetting your odometer to Fiat Grande Punto , then this part will definitely benefit you.
The odometer or odometer totalizer of your car used to be mechanical, and has now been changed to electronic. The aim of this replace is principally to fight against mileage fraud , in actual fact, many people knew how to change mechanical odometers to reduce or reset the mileage of a Fiat Grande Punto 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 Fiat Grande Punto, it is a sensor that can be placed in different places depending on the year of your Fiat Grande Punto and that transmits the mileage data to the onboard computer.
Reset the daily mileage counter to zero on Fiat Grande Punto
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Now let’s proceed to the most important step, how to reset the daily odometer of your Fiat Grande Punto? Nevertheless this step is generally easy to execute, some of you, new buyers of Fiat Grande Punto for example, may not be knowledgeable with the procedure to execute this process.
We will now check out the different approaches to reset the trip odometer to zero on Fiat Grande Punto:
- Hold the right button on your dashboard for several seconds until zero is shown on the trip odometer
- If this button does not work, you can use the right-hand counter comodo by pressing the button at its end for a couple of seconds till the odometer of your Fiat Grande Punto 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 options to reset it to zero
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If you want to reset the service counter of your Fiat Grande Punto, please read our content on this topic.
Rollback or lower the mileage of his Fiat Grande Punto odometer
Last part, which may benefit some of you, how to lower the mileage of his Fiat Grande Punto . Know already that this act is totally forbidden 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 Fiat Grande Punto before you buy it, it might be interesting to know how scammers operate.
- Resetting a mechanical odometer to zero on Fiat Grande Punto:
Nevertheless they are becoming increasingly rare, mechanical odometers are the easiest to tamper with, in fact, it was enough to just locate 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 Fiat Grande Punto. - Reset electronic odometer to zero on Fiat Grande Punto;
At last, the now basic electronic odometers that were expected to fight fraud effectively are no more invulnerable than the mechanical variants. Indeed, using the diagnostic socket of your Fiat Grande Punto, it is possible to reset the odometer of your Fiat Grande Punto , with the help of a computer and software it is possible to change the mileage data displayed on your dashboard.
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