Rolling back the odometer by driving backwards

[Ryanleea]

My 91 hunter is about to hit 300000 miles. My buddy wants to trade for his 98D1. I want to deliver it to him right at 300k. We do the trade on saturday, he says if I get too close I can drive backwards and forwards to his house to deliver it as promised with exactly 300k miles. Is this possible? And retarded?
It stands at299701

 

[ptschram]

Disconnect the speedo cable.

 

[brian4d]

My 91 hunter is about to hit 300000 miles. My buddy wants to trade for his 98D1. I want to deliver it to him right at 300k. We do the trade on saturday, he says if I get too close I can drive backwards and forwards to his house to deliver it as promised with exactly 300k miles. Is this possible? And retarded?
It stands at299701

Is this a joke? Did you watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off recently?

 

[Timmy!!!!!!!]

Bueller? Bueller?

 

[quick128]

I'm not sure he is joking, but if he is then it's kind of hilarious

 

[az_max]

Just disconnect the speedo cable. Chrysler did it for years on executive cars and my dad would do it on local u-haul rentals he used for work.

 

[Ryanleea]

No, its real. And no im too young for Ferris Beuller. I think I may have seen parts of the movie.

 

[brian4d]

No, its real. And no im too young for Ferris Beuller. I think I may have seen parts of the movie.

Never to young for Beuller. Rent that, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Dazed and Confused, Dream a little Dream, Gooneys and Ghostbusters. Make a weekend of it.

 

[brian4d]

Oh, Caddy Shack and Back to School, have to get your Dangerfield fix.

 

[nosivad_bor]

We had a 83-85 buick skylark that would undo miles in reverse.

We got it to flip to 100k in the driveway.

 

[lcater]

He may have watched Malcolm in the Middle where they did that on an episode. We're lucky if the odometer registers forward motion properly.

 

[toadermcgee]

My dad had a 85 GMC 1 ton truck that would take miles off by going in reverse. I found that out one night when I drove home from a friends house in reverse on a bet. 2.4 miles came off the truck and I had $5 more in my pocket.

 

[roverMc]

Is this a joke? Did you watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off recently?

I know of a case in our Dept. that an inspector was using the state vehicle for personal use and wanted to remove some mileage. He put the rear end on blocks and started it up. He got it going and went to get something from inside the house. Well you can guess what happened next, the truck fell off the blocks and ran into the house. This really happened.

 

[landrovered]

As long as you tick the box on the form that says "odometer exceeds physical limits" then I don't see any harm in trying it.

 

[junkyarddisco]

sure if you drive backwards the odometer will go backwards as well -- but if you drive sideways the miles will reverse to about the fourth or fifth order -- depending on the terrain. if you paypal me about two thousand bucks I can spend a few days working out a route, with proper combinations of driving forwards, backwards, and sideways, to get your hunter to your bud's house at exactly 300,000.00 miles. PM sent.

 

[roverMc]

sure if you drive backwards the odometer will go backwards as well -- but if you drive sideways the miles will reverse to about the fourth or fifth order -- depending on the terrain. if you paypal me about two thousand bucks I can spend a few days working out a route, with proper combinations of driving forwards, backwards, and sideways, to get your hunter to your bud's house at exactly 300,000.00 miles. PM sent.

That'd be one long fucking raod trip, better have a couple of those Budlight trucks follow you.

 

[Jake]

As long as you tick the box on the form that says "odometer exceeds physical limits" then I don't see any harm in trying it.

300 k does not exceed the physical limits of a Disco odo...

 

[ptschram]

300 k does not exceed the physical limits of a Disco odo...

Perhaps not, but it's really pretty rare to find a pre-91 or 92 RRC that has an odometer that still works past about 98K

The right angle drives just don't last very well.

 

[landrovered]

Ticking the box indicates that the mileage is not correct to the truck, it is the legal and right thing to do.

 

[slowNstdy]

Perhaps not, but it's really pretty rare to find a pre-91 or 92 RRC that has an odometer that still works past about 98K

The right angle drives just don't last very well.

my 92 made it too 186k. then shit the bed., but you would have to occasionaly tap the side of it to make it work.