Modern vehicles are furnished with a notable quantity of features, and now you can even listen to Deezer on your car. Nevertheless, some basic features are still quite functional. In truth, being familiar with the range of your Volkswagen Transporter is part of the basic knowledge in order not to run out of gas. A lot of us often do similar thing, wanting to reset the odometer of our Volkswagen Transporter to zero after filling it up to know how many kilometers we’re going to drive . In this article, we will describe how to reset the odometer on Volkswagen Transporter . In a first time, we will be interested in 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 decrease the mileage of its Volkswagen Transporter.
How does the trip odometer function on Volkswagen Transporter?
Let’s start our article with how your meter functions. Although it’s not necessary to understand how your car works, it’s still wise and practical to know the principles. If you’re questioning about resetting your odometer to Volkswagen Transporter , then this part will absolutely benefit you.
The odometer or odometer totalizer of your car employed to be mechanical, and has now been changed to electronic. The purpose of this replace is mainly to fight against mileage fraud , obviously, many people knew how to manipulate mechanical odometers to reduce or reset the mileage of a Volkswagen Transporter 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 basic on the Volkswagen Transporter, it is a sensor that can be placed in different spots based on the year of your Volkswagen Transporter and that transmits the mileage data to the onboard computer.
Reset the daily mileage counter to zero on Volkswagen Transporter
.
Now let’s proceed to the most important step, how to reset the daily odometer of your Volkswagen Transporter? Nevertheless this step is generally easy to perform, some of you, new buyers of Volkswagen Transporter for example, may not be knowledgeable with the process to carry out this process.
We will now look at the different approaches to reset the trip odometer to zero on Volkswagen Transporter:
- Hold the right button on your dashboard for some seconds until zero is shown 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 until the odometer of your Volkswagen Transporter 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 options to reset it to zero
.
If you want to reset the service counter of your Volkswagen Transporter, please go through our article on this topic.
Rollback or lower the mileage of his Volkswagen Transporter odometer
Last part, which may benefit some of you, how to lower the mileage of his Volkswagen Transporter . Know already that this act is totally not allowed by the law , and that if you perform this action, you risk up to 2 years in prison and 300, 000 euros fine. Nevertheless, if you have doubts about the mileage of a Volkswagen Transporter before you buy it, it might be interesting to know how fraudsters run.
- Resetting a mechanical odometer to zero on Volkswagen Transporter:
Although they are becoming progressively rare, mechanical odometers are the least difficult 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 produce it turn upside down and raise or lower the mileage of its Volkswagen Transporter. - Reset electronic odometer to zero on Volkswagen Transporter;
At last, the now basic electronic odometers that were expected to fight fraud efficiently are no more invulnerable than the mechanical variants. In truth, using the diagnostic socket of your Volkswagen Transporter, it is possible to reset the odometer of your Volkswagen Transporter , 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 Volkswagen Transporter, go to our Volkswagen Transporter category.
