Modern automobiles are furnished with an impressive range of features, and now you can even listen to Deezer on your motor vehicle. Nevertheless, some basic features are still quite practical. In actual fact, knowing the range of your Renault Latitude is part of the basic knowledge in order not to run out of gas. Many of us tend to do similar thing, wanting to reset the odometer of our Renault Latitude to zero after filling it up to know how many kilometers we’re going to drive . In this post, we will show you how to reset the odometer on Renault Latitude . In a first time, we will be interested in 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 Renault Latitude.
How does the trip odometer work on Renault Latitude?
Let’s begin our article with how your meter works. Although it’s not necessary to discover how your motor vehicle works, it’s still wise and practical to know the principles. If you’re concerned about about resetting your odometer to Renault Latitude , then this part will absolutely 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 , in fact, many people knew how to manipulate mechanical odometers to reduce or reset the mileage of a Renault Latitude 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 general on the Renault Latitude, it is a sensor that can be positioned in different places depending on the year of your Renault Latitude and that transmits the mileage data to the onboard computer.
Reset the daily mileage counter to zero on Renault Latitude
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Now let’s proceed to the most necessary step, how to reset the daily odometer of your Renault Latitude? Although this step is quite often easy to accomplish, some of you, new buyers of Renault Latitude for example, may not be familiar with the process to accomplish this task.
We will now check out the different ways to reset the trip odometer to zero on Renault Latitude:
- Hold the right button on your dashboard for some 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 few seconds till the odometer of your Renault Latitude is reset to zero.
- Finally, on some of the newer models, you may need to search 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 Renault Latitude, please go through our article on this topic.
Rollback or lower the mileage of his Renault Latitude odometer
Last part, which may benefit some of you, how to lower the mileage of his Renault Latitude . Know already that this action is totally not allowed by the law , and that if you accomplish 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 Renault Latitude before you buy it, it may be interesting to know how fraudsters operate.
- Resetting a mechanical odometer to zero on Renault Latitude:
Even though they are becoming increasingly rare, mechanical odometers are the least difficult to tamper with, in fact, it was enough to just find 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 Renault Latitude. - Reset electronic odometer to zero on Renault Latitude;
At last, the now general electronic odometers that were expected to fight fraud effectively are no more invulnerable than the mechanical versions. In actual fact, using the diagnostic socket of your Renault Latitude, it is possible to reset the odometer of your Renault Latitude , 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 guides on the Renault Latitude, go to our Renault Latitude category.
