Modern vehicles are equipped with a notable quantity of options, and now you can even enjoy Deezer on your motor vehicle. On the other hand, some simple options are still quite useful. In actual fact, knowing the range of your Jeep Patriot is part of the simple knowledge in order not to run out of gas. Most of us often do similar thing, wanting to reset the odometer of our Jeep Patriot 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 Jeep Patriot . In a first time, we will be enthusiastic about 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 reduce the mileage of its Jeep Patriot.
How does the trip odometer work on Jeep Patriot?
Let’s start our content with how your meter functions. Although it’s not required to figure out how your motor vehicle works, it’s still wise and practical to know the fundamentals. If you’re questioning about resetting your odometer to Jeep Patriot , then this component will definitely benefit you.
The odometer or odometer totalizer of your motor vehicle employed to be mechanical, and has now been changed to electronic. The intent of this change is specifically to fight against mileage fraud , obviously, some of us knew how to manipulate mechanical odometers to lower or reset the mileage of a Jeep Patriot to be able to sell it for more than its real value.
In the mechanical version, it functions 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 general on the Jeep Patriot, it is a sensor that can be placed in different places depending on the year of your Jeep Patriot and that transmits the mileage data to the onboard computer.
Reset the daily mileage counter to zero on Jeep Patriot
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Now let’s proceed to the most important step, how to reset the daily odometer of your Jeep Patriot? Nevertheless this step is quite often easy to perform, some of you, new buyers of Jeep Patriot for example, may not be comfortable with the process to conduct this process.
We will now check out the different ways to reset the trip odometer to zero on Jeep Patriot:
- 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 few seconds until the odometer of your Jeep Patriot 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 settings to reset it to zero
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If you want to reset the service counter of your Jeep Patriot, please read our content on this topic.
Rollback or lower the mileage of his Jeep Patriot odometer
Last component, which may benefit some of you, how to lower the mileage of his Jeep Patriot . Know already that this work is totally forbidden by the law , and that if you perform this act, you risk up to 2 years in prison and 300, 000 euros fine. However, if you have doubts about the mileage of a Jeep Patriot before you buy it, it may be interesting to know how fraudsters work.
- Resetting a mechanical odometer to zero on Jeep Patriot:
Although they are becoming more and more rare, mechanical odometers are the least difficult 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 produce it turn upside down and raise or lower the mileage of its Jeep Patriot. - Reset electronic odometer to zero on Jeep Patriot;
Finally, the now general electronic odometers that were supposed to fight fraud effectively are no more invulnerable than the mechanical variants. In actual fact, using the diagnostic socket of your Jeep Patriot, it is possible to reset the odometer of your Jeep Patriot , with the help of a computer and software it is possible to modify the mileage data displayed on your dashboard.
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If you want more tutorials on the Jeep Patriot, go to our Jeep Patriot category.
