Modern vehicles are furnished with a notable number of options, and now you can even listen to Deezer on your car. On the other hand, some basic options are still quite practical. Indeed, being familiar with the range of your Volkswagen Caddy is part of the basic knowledge in order not to run out of gas. A lot of us tend to do similar thing, wanting to reset the odometer of our Volkswagen Caddy to zero after filling it up to know how many kilometers we’re going to drive . In this article, we will explain how to reset the odometer on Volkswagen Caddy . 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 Volkswagen Caddy.
How does the trip odometer function on Volkswagen Caddy?
Let’s start our article with how your meter works. Although it’s not required to discover how your car works, it’s still wise and practical to know the basics. If you’re thinking about about resetting your odometer to Volkswagen Caddy , then this part will absolutely benefit you.
The odometer or odometer totalizer of your car utilized to be mechanical, and has now been changed to electronic. The intent of this change is specifically to fight against mileage fraud , in truth, some of us knew how to manipulate mechanical odometers to reduce or reset the mileage of a Volkswagen Caddy 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 Volkswagen Caddy, it is a sensor that can be located in different locations depending on the year of your Volkswagen Caddy and that transmits the mileage data to the onboard computer.
Reset the daily mileage counter to zero on Volkswagen Caddy
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Now let’s proceed to the most essential step, how to reset the daily odometer of your Volkswagen Caddy? Although this step is quite often easy to conduct, some of you, new buyers of Volkswagen Caddy for example, may not be comfortable with the procedure to carry out this task.
We will now check out the different ways to reset the trip odometer to zero on Volkswagen Caddy:
- Hold the right button on your dashboard for several 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 Volkswagen Caddy 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 Volkswagen Caddy, please go through our article on this topic.
Rollback or lower the mileage of his Volkswagen Caddy odometer
Last part, which may benefit some of you, how to lower the mileage of his Volkswagen Caddy . Know already that this action is totally forbidden by the law , and that if you conduct this act, you risk up to 2 years in prison and 300, 000 euros fine. Nevertheless, if you have doubts about the mileage of a Volkswagen Caddy before you buy it, it might be interesting to know how scammers run.
- Resetting a mechanical odometer to zero on Volkswagen Caddy:
Even though they are becoming more and more rare, mechanical odometers are the least difficult to tamper with, in fact, it was enough to simply identify 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 Volkswagen Caddy. - Reset electronic odometer to zero on Volkswagen Caddy;
Finally, the now basic electronic odometers that were intended to fight fraud efficiently are no more invulnerable than the mechanical types. Indeed, using the diagnostic socket of your Volkswagen Caddy, it is possible to reset the odometer of your Volkswagen Caddy , with the help of a computer and software it is possible to change the mileage data displayed on your dashboard.
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