Modern vehicles are equipped with a notable range of options, and now you can even enjoy Deezer on your car. Nevertheless, some basic options are still quite functional. Obviously, being aware of the range of your Mitsubishi L200 is part of the basic knowledge in order not to run out of gas. Many of us often do the same thing, wanting to reset the odometer of our Mitsubishi L200 to zero after filling it up to know how many kilometers we’re going to drive . In this post, we will describe how to reset the odometer on Mitsubishi L200 . 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 Mitsubishi L200.

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How does the trip odometer work on Mitsubishi L200?

Let’s start our content with how your meter works. While it’s not required to figure out how your car works, it’s still wise and practical to know the fundamentals. If you’re thinking about about resetting your odometer to Mitsubishi L200 , then this component will absolutely interest you.

The odometer or odometer totalizer of your car employed to be mechanical, and has now been changed to electronic. The aim of this replace is mainly to fight against mileage fraud , indeed, some of us knew how to manipulate mechanical odometers to reduce or reset the mileage of a Mitsubishi L200 to be able 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 common on the Mitsubishi L200, it is a sensor that can be placed in different places based on the year of your Mitsubishi L200 and that transmits the mileage data to the onboard computer.

Reset the daily mileage counter to zero on Mitsubishi L200

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Now let’s proceed to the most necessary step, how to reset the daily odometer of your Mitsubishi L200? Nevertheless this step is quite often easy to execute, some of you, new buyers of Mitsubishi L200 for example, may not be comfortable with the process to execute this process.

We will now check out the different methods to reset the trip odometer to zero on Mitsubishi L200:

  • Hold the right button on your dashboard for several seconds until zero is displayed 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 until the odometer of your Mitsubishi L200 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 Mitsubishi L200, please browse our content on this topic.

Rollback or lower the mileage of his Mitsubishi L200 odometer

Last component, which may interest some of you, how to lower the mileage of his Mitsubishi L200 . Know already that this action is totally forbidden by the law , and that if you execute 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 Mitsubishi L200 before you buy it, it might be interesting to know how scammers work.

  • Resetting a mechanical odometer to zero on Mitsubishi L200:

    Nevertheless they are becoming progressively rare, mechanical odometers are the least difficult to tamper with, in fact, 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 Mitsubishi L200.
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  • Reset electronic odometer to zero on Mitsubishi L200;

    Finally, the now common electronic odometers that were expected to fight fraud efficiently are no more invulnerable than the mechanical types. Obviously, using the diagnostic socket of your Mitsubishi L200, it is possible to reset the odometer of your Mitsubishi L200 , with the help of a computer and software it is possible to modify the mileage data displayed on your dashboard.

If you want more tutorials on the Mitsubishi L200, go to our Mitsubishi L200 category.