Odometer changed to miles from Km

[Themadscotsman]

I’ve had my 2006 Alphard about six weeks now so still learning things about it.

On my way work last week I noticed the odometer was at something like 68100when leaving home and when I arrived at work 18 miles later the odometer showed 68118 which means it is counting miles not km.

The car had a bit over 42k  miles or 67k  ish Km showing on the odometer when I bought it, the dials were changed to Mph and I assumed the odometer would keep counting the KMs but it seems not.

I don’t necessarily need to clock the car down to the correct mileage but have the odometer counting in KMs. If I were to sell the car down the line I need to be able to say it has done x amount of Kms as oppose to whatever the odometer shows as miles.

Has anyone else experienced this?

[smurf]

Do you know if they fitted a chip rather than just change the dials? If they have installed a chip on the canbus it will measure everything in miles now, including the odometer, which does mean the odometer is a mixture of KM and miles.

[dezufo]

Are you sure the dial was changed? If it is registering miles on the odometer then you probably have a chip fitted, and that 68118 will be a mix of the km before the chip was fitted, and the miles covered since. Did you get a CarVX report just to check that the odometer is showing the correct distance actually covered in Japan? Usually if it has had a chip fitted, the kmh in the centre of the dial will have the k blacked out but if the dial has been changed there will be MPH in the centre.

[Themadscotsman]

The dial was changed, upon viewing the car had a kmh dial which the dealer changed to an mph dial as they said they do as part of the predelivery service.

The CarVX report stated the mileage before shipping as slightly higher than actual and I assumed they had rounded up by around 100km. The centre of the dial has the k blacked out.

[smurf]

I'm confused. Where is the K that has been blacked out? If it has new dials there is no need to black a K out, but with a blacked out K it sounds like they have left the original dials and fitted a chip to change both the speed and odometer to miles. 

[Themadscotsman]

This is my speedometer with the K obscured.

[smurf]

They haven't changed your dials. They have installed a canbus chip and stuck a bit of black insulating tape over the K. Your odometer is now recording miles. 

[Themadscotsman]

I emailed the dealer for verification this afternoon and very quickly received the following. That has cleared everything up.

It also explains why I thought I was using more fuel than I was based on the trip meter and me thinking it was reading in KMs.

Edited Wednesday at 04:22 PM by Themadscotsman

[Picasso]

Hello you have had a ckun09 chip fitted at some point this will make it count in miles early Alphard up to 2008 are not canbus system good you got a copy of the certificate regarding the black tape on the k it’s only way they could cheaply get it to pass mot mine is the same you could change the face and will show mph 

[Rojie]

Some masking of the k of Km/h or very difficult to detect. Mine is.

 

But it has been done.

The facia has been replaced well, but not to Toyota OEM standard.

 

You can easily measure your odometer on motorways; just count the roadside assistance mileage posts.