Modern automobiles are equipped with a notable range of options, and now you can even enjoy Deezer on your motor vehicle. On the other hand, some basic options are still quite handy. In fact, knowing the range of your Volkswagen Rabbit 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 Volkswagen Rabbit 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 Volkswagen Rabbit . In a first time, we will be keen on 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 Volkswagen Rabbit.
How does the trip odometer work on Volkswagen Rabbit?
Let’s start our article with how your meter functions. Although it’s not required to discover how your motor vehicle works, it’s still wise and practical to know the fundamentals. If you’re questioning about resetting your odometer to Volkswagen Rabbit , then this part will absolutely benefit you.
The odometer or odometer totalizer of your motor vehicle utilized to be mechanical, and has now been changed to electronic. The goal of this replace is mainly to fight against mileage fraud , indeed, some of us knew how to manipulate mechanical odometers to lower or reset the mileage of a Volkswagen Rabbit in order to sell it for more than its real value.
In the mechanical version, it functions 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 Volkswagen Rabbit, it is a sensor that can be placed in different places based on the year of your Volkswagen Rabbit and that transmits the mileage data to the onboard computer.
Reset the daily mileage counter to zero on Volkswagen Rabbit
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Now let’s move on to the most important step, how to reset the daily odometer of your Volkswagen Rabbit? Nevertheless this step is often easy to carry out, some of you, new buyers of Volkswagen Rabbit for example, may not be familiar with the procedure to conduct this task.
We will now look at the different ways to reset the trip odometer to zero on Volkswagen Rabbit:
- Hold the right button on your dashboard for some 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 till the odometer of your Volkswagen Rabbit 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 Volkswagen Rabbit, please go through our article on this topic.
Rollback or lower the mileage of his Volkswagen Rabbit odometer
Last part, which may benefit some of you, how to lower the mileage of his Volkswagen Rabbit . Know already that this work 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 Volkswagen Rabbit before you buy it, it might be interesting to know how fraudsters work.
- Resetting a mechanical odometer to zero on Volkswagen Rabbit:
Although they are becoming more and more rare, mechanical odometers are the easiest to tamper with, in reality, it was enough to just identify 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 Volkswagen Rabbit. - Reset electronic odometer to zero on Volkswagen Rabbit;
Finally, the now general electronic odometers that were expected to fight fraud efficiently are no more invulnerable than the mechanical types. In fact, using the diagnostic socket of your Volkswagen Rabbit, it is possible to reset the odometer of your Volkswagen Rabbit , 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 wish more tutorials on the Volkswagen Rabbit, go to our Volkswagen Rabbit category.
