Modern automobiles are furnished with a notable number of features, and now you can even listen to Deezer on your car. On the other hand, some basic features are still quite practical. In actual fact, knowing the range of your Kia Picanto is part of the basic 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 Kia Picanto 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 Kia Picanto . 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 Kia Picanto.
How does the trip odometer function on Kia Picanto?
Let’s start our content page with how your meter functions. Although it’s not required to figure out how your car works, it’s still wise and practical to know the principles. If you’re questioning about resetting your odometer to Kia Picanto , then this part will absolutely benefit 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 mainly to fight against mileage fraud , obviously, some of us knew how to manipulate mechanical odometers to lower or reset the mileage of a Kia Picanto in order 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 Kia Picanto, it is a sensor that can be placed in different spots depending on the year of your Kia Picanto and that transmits the mileage data to the onboard computer.
Reset the daily mileage counter to zero on Kia Picanto
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Now let’s move on to the most important step, how to reset the daily odometer of your Kia Picanto? Nevertheless this step is quite often easy to carry out, some of you, new buyers of Kia Picanto for example, may not be familiar with the process to carry out this task.
We will now check out the different methods to reset the trip odometer to zero on Kia Picanto:
- 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 till the odometer of your Kia Picanto 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 settings to reset it to zero
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If you want to reset the service counter of your Kia Picanto, please go through our content page on this topic.
Rollback or lower the mileage of his Kia Picanto odometer
Last part, which may benefit some of you, how to lower the mileage of his Kia Picanto . Know already that this act is totally forbidden 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 Kia Picanto before you buy it, it might be interesting to know how scammers work.
- Resetting a mechanical odometer to zero on Kia Picanto:
Even though they are becoming increasingly rare, mechanical odometers are the easiest to tamper with, in reality, it was enough to simply 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 Kia Picanto. - Reset electronic odometer to zero on Kia Picanto;
Finally, the now general electronic odometers that were expected to fight fraud efficiently are no more invulnerable than the mechanical versions. In actual fact, using the diagnostic socket of your Kia Picanto, it is possible to reset the odometer of your Kia Picanto , 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 you wish more tutorials on the Kia Picanto, go to our Kia Picanto category.
