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I'm almost certain there are two internal odometers, one that's accessible with the select monitor, then another "hidden" one, but I've never used the select monitor tool, so I couldn't tell you how to access it.

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It was the speedometer head that was bad. I replaced it and it works perfectly now. Problem is it says the car has like 10k miles on it. I don't want to car to be flagged at some point for odometer fraud (I don't know how possible that is), so I would like to correct it before NY goes to an inspection system that taps into the OBDII, which is happening in June.

 

Can I just turn the dials on the speedo head to correct the mileage?

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  • 3 weeks later...

I changed the odometer to read the actual mileage before the speedo head change ~138k + the actual mileage on the new speedo head ~13k so now it says ~151k. It was pretty easy to do.

 

I talked to the service manager at the dealer near where I work. I asked him if I could get the actual vehicle mileage out using the select monitor, and he said "Subaru isn't quite there yet". I find this really hard to believe, as the body control modules I worked on at Motorola in 1998 had the odometer in them, and I could read ( and write :brow: ) it relatively easily, and those modules only controlled things like daytime running lights, turn signals, etc. Granted, I was using proprietary hardware and software I wrote, but the tools available to the service tech must be able to at least read this kind of stuff. I am certain the mileage must be in a computer on the car somewhere, and it must be readable. Oh well, I will leave it like it is, knowing the mileage is higher. Hopefully the DMV doesn't know more about reading this information than the Subaru dealers do.

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