Things That Amuse You

[Touring_Sedan]

There’s still an electrical connection between the sensor on the wheel and the ECM to odometer


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No shit Sherlock, but that connection does absolutely fuck all when the ignition is turned off.

[Mustonen]

No shit Sherlock, but that connection does absolutely fuck all when the ignition is turned off.

In the spirit of arguing, the ignition being on or off has very little to do with whether the odometer can register miles or not, particularly on a modern car. The engineers in charge of that bit decided that it should log miles or that it should not log miles, and different teams of engineers might have decided it differently for different cars.

Really, the perfect topic for which you should pick a position and be a dick about it. Carry on.

[Touring_Sedan]

In the spirit of arguing, the ignition being on or off has very little to do with whether the odometer can register miles or not, particularly on a modern car. The engineers in charge of that bit decided that it should log miles or that it should not log miles, and different teams of engineers might have decided it differently for different cars.

Really, the perfect topic for which you should pick a position and be a dick about it. Carry on.

Find me a vehicle with a modern electronic odometer that will rack up the miles when it's flat towed with the ignition off.

I'll wait.

[bennymac]

What if it’s on a treadmill?

[old goat]

When you check out the clearance aisle at a store to see steep discounts like this one! Took this picture at a Gamestop the kids and I popped into at the mall. Made me chuckle.

WHAT A DEAL!!!
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Reminds me of this classic:

Well without the discount they would have increased it to 11. Thanks Biden,

What if it’s on a treadmill?

Uh oh.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

Find me a vehicle with a modern electronic odometer that will rack up the miles when it's flat towed with the ignition off.

I'll wait.

Isn’t the data stored to the ECM regardless of power because it’s created by magnetic impulses?


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[Skistack]

Magnets?


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[Mustonen]

Find me a vehicle with a modern electronic odometer that will rack up the miles when it's flat towed with the ignition off.

I'll wait.

I don’t care, and won’t spent time on it. “Does fuck-all” is inaccurate though. It does everything it needs to and the car’s computer has been instructed to not count those miles, which is not fuck-all.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

Magnets?


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Are you familiar how a magnetic pickup works? That’s how modern digital odometers work


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[TBS]

This argument about towing and odometers is amusing

[Thaleia]

Isn’t the data stored to the ECM regardless of power because it’s created by magnetic impulses?


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In the case of Honda, apparently not. I fried my gauge cluster and replaced it with a used one. Once installed the 'new' cluster displayed a different mileage.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

In the case of Honda, apparently not. I fried my gauge cluster and replaced it with a used one. Once installed the 'new' cluster displayed a different mileage.

So is it stored by a chip in the cluster? I’m not trying to be argumentative I really want to know. This is an amusing tangent btw


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[anotherVTskibum]

So is it stored by a chip in the cluster? I’m not trying to be argumentative I really want to know. This is an amusing tangent btw


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I'm fairly sure my Ford stores it both in the cluster and in one of the drivetrain control units. The cluster is apparently not too hard to reprogram if you've got the appropriate workbench. The other one, again according to my understanding which is not very deep, is much tougher to change. Obviously, if they don't match (which I think is easy to check with the Ford dealer service computer), that's a red flag.

[stealurface831]

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[Thaleia]

So is it stored by a chip in the cluster? I’m not trying to be argumentative I really want to know. This is an amusing tangent btw


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I can't really speak to how specifically it is stored, but yes, the mileage that displays on the gauge cluster seems to be stored from with in.

Getting a new cluster is a massive pita (for Honda, all of the following needs to be an exact match, otherwise the unit doesn't function - CA vehicle vs USA, keyless ignition or not, each trim needs a differing unit, manual vs std, different body types etc.) It took almost a year to find one. In that time I was researching the hell out of all of this. It was widely known in these (yes, very niche) circles that the mileage was stored in the cluster.

[ötzi]

Right?

[::: :::]

https://www.oregonlive.com/nation/20...id-flight.html

But flight attendants discovered the insects were in a passenger’s carry-on-bag that had spoiled fish wrapped in a newspaper, Schotte told Fox2Detroit.

[old goat]

Going back to Amsterdam seems a bit of an overreaction.
I've stunk up an airplane twice--once with stinky French cheese and once with a bottle of homemade kosher dill pickles that leaked. But maggots is next level. (And I'd rather deal with maggots than with rotten fish.)

[evdog]

I take it there is no customs pre-clearance in Amsterdam? Seems like rotten fish packaged poorly enough that maggots can spill out would be a slam dunk to catch before boarding.

[PB]

Maggot shower? Russian counter-op gone awry?!?

[johnnyg82]

https://www.oregonlive.com/nation/20...id-flight.html

No one noticed the smell of rotting fish?

[::: :::]

No one noticed the smell of rotting fish?

Right?

[Touring_Sedan]

Hey Lincoln,

Not sure I'd push an ad featuring this specific Continental out on Presidents Day. Just sayin'.

[basinbeater]

In the gondi...

[MagnificentUnicorn]

In the gondi...

So far it’s a fascinating episode


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