Odometers

the odometer works by a device on axle and or wheel close to the ball berring close to ABS as well it records how many times the wheel spins. depending on the wheel's size you may have a differant miles.the speedometer works by pretty much the same way it just spins depending on how many times it spins per second and counts the spins.

On a 1997 Ford Thunderbird :

The odometer is in the middle of the speedometer

When a meter stops working its not the meter that's broken it's the cables and circuits that control power the meter their should be a cable underneath the plastic that protects the meters follow that and replace it and it should be ok.

Check the fuses near the drivers left foot

If you search the Internet (I prefer google) for "broken odometer" or some such keyword(s) - you will find your answer(s). But basically, you have two options, find a similar car/odometer at a junkyard, and replace the broken one with one that's working from there.... Or, take it (or send it....) to a speedometer shop which will be able to reconfigure the speedometer. Option 3, I found a high-tech site that details removing the dashboard, removing the speedometer from the dashboard, opening up the speedometer, replacing a broken gear in there (if it's a mechanical speedometer), then basically putting it back together in reverse. Sounded kinda technical, cause you gotta be sooo careful not to move/nudge the numbers the wrong way, or bend the odometer needle when putting it back onto the shaft.

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Because that's what it's built to do.

Mostly all the vehicles that I have worked on with a digital odometer cannot be lowered. Their is an actual manual odometer that reads to the engine computer that sends digital readout to the odometer, that cannot be reset or changed if you were to try to it would disable the vehicle and would need to be taken to the manufacturer garage for service to reset computer but would still give old odometer reading. If the computer were to come out of another car the odometer still wouldn't change. Government is very very strict with odometers these days.

I disagree with above that digital odometers "can't" be tampered with, indeed they can provided the right hardware/software is available, many digital odometers can be manipulated through a connection made on the cars diagnostic plug or through connections made to the instrument panel cluster. A search of the internet will show up many companies that sell hardware/software to do digital odometers

Disconnecting the odometer, vin, title, or any other identifying automobile information is not only illegal, it is dishonest. I do not advise falsifying the odometer for any reason whatsoever. One more piece of information, many odometers in late model vehicles are computer controlled, so unless you are a computer scientist, you will not be able to crack the factory computer to alter this parameter.

Although, removing the "meter" fuse will disable your odometer and speedometer....

Tire size may be off.

Previous owner might have turned it back to improve the value of the car.

It might be broken.

IT might have been broken eariler and replaced with a unit from another car of another mileage.

Have you checked fuse? Try new cable (wire) or connectors. Hope this helps.

The fuses that effect those compoments are in the fuse brick under the hood

Funny thing about saturns, they don't have an "odometer cable" They use a magnetic pickup assembly, located in the rear of the transmission, just above the passanger side axle output. this sensor is connected directly to the engine computer. from the computer the signal then goes to your instrument panel and is converted into electricity to drive a small motor to turn the digits which you can see. if the odometer has stopped working, replace the speed sensor on the transmission, or your instrument panel has failed.

An odometer is an instrument that tells you the distance - usually in kilometers or miles - a wheeled vehicle has traveled based on the number of turns made by its wheels.

There is not an individual or separate fuse for the odometer

Not if key is off or battery is disconnected.

Not if key is off or battery is disconnected.

One mile is 1.6 kilometer, you do the math.

you have to get anew speedometer,speedy bo peep.

"they cannot be" WHAT?

It depends on the car - some cars store the mileage in various places but some cars just have the mileage stored in an eeprom chip which can be "recalibrated" and once altered there is no trace of old mileage

take it apart and look for the problem. depending on whats broken you might be able to fix it but you might also need to troubleshoot it, it could be the computer not sending info to the speedometer.