I think it's likely that the odometer gear is broken. There's a small chance that the odometer is working and someone reset the trip counter immediately before taking the picture.FireFox31 wrote: ↑30 Jul 2025, 01:01 Does the trip counter at 000.0 indicate that the odometer gears are broken, thus the mileage is wrong? And is the true odometer reading stored in a computer which can be read? And you can manually advance the odometer to match the internal computer reading? My 2000 V70 stores the mileage in a computer even when the ABS module was disconnected so the odometer didn't increment.
On US market '96 with mechanical odometer, the mileage is also stored electronically in the cluster and can be read with D2 protocol. I believe the electronic count comes from the same pulse train that controls the mechanical odometer, so it will not update without a signal from the ABS module.
It is physically possible to remove the mechanical odometer and roll it forward. This may be legally questionable even though you are changing a wrong reading to a right one.
It's up to you how much you care about the odometer accuracy on a 30 year old car!
