Reading Mileage with VIDA

Post by **vjaneczko** » 12 Jan 2012, 10:38

Sorry for the post, but I'm trying to find a post where someone recently (within the last few weeks IIRC) posted the actual steps to take when reading the mileage using VIDA for a '97 850 - one without the ODB I box. My 850 is at the dealer and want them to read it and they asked me to shoot them a fax with the procedure (insert funny comment here).

Anyway, I recall the post was an indirect reply to the original post question so doing a search for READ MILEAGE VIDA is not helping. I could swear I bookmarked the page but alas, I did not. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Post by **erikv11** » 12 Jan 2012, 11:45

I think you are looking for this one:

https://www.matthewsvolvosite.com/forums ... =1&t=43723

Let us know if it works, and how much did they charge you?

And like you posted in the other thread, can you please report ANY additional information that might be useful? I want to have this done too, my new daily driver has an odometer stuck at 84k, would like to know exactly where it sits when I fix the gears in the next little while.

Post by **vjaneczko** » 12 Jan 2012, 15:27

You found it! That's what I was looking for.

I gave it to the Dealer and they gave it a try but it didn't work. They said that the '97 wasn't able to read past the COMBI part, so they were guessing that it would only work for 2000 and newer.

Oh well.

Post by **jimmy57** » 12 Jan 2012, 15:36

They need to use a VST, not VIDA and refer to this:
Re: How do I retrieve the correct mileage on 1996 850

Postby jimmy57 » 25 Oct 2011, 23:45
I have a VST and I am pretty sure I have read milage on Diagnose2 850's. I haven't tried on a 96-97 850 in a long time as that doesn't come up as request and I don't know when I will have one to try it on again.

addendum: I just went out to my 98 and used the VST. I selected the car as a "800 SERIES" and then went through some of the other system menus to be sure the VST was displaying menus for 850's and not S/V70 models just in case the tool overrode menu selections when hooked to a car not specified.
I selected "ELECTRICAL" then "COMBI" and then "PROGRAM COMBI" and on the menu was "READ COMBI"
In that menu were several things like "MANIPULATED=YES", should be no but when the ABS module croaks and VSS is lost this changes from NO to YES.
I went down a few lines and there was MILAG=167407. My odo shows 167243.

If you go to "MONITOR TEST" menu you get a whole other list of parameters and milage is not in that area.

I know this is less than a true test since I was using a 98 but it is on the menu.