I need help: I suspect Honda West is tempering with my odometer on my Civic Si Coupe

[happy hopping]

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[realazy]

What if the previous owner tampered with it and scammed Honda West?

Or is it just a malfunctioning gauge cluster?

[EF9 Sedan]

Minus the oil change issue...

Did you accidentally change the speedometer to read MPH? (I believe it is one of the buttons on the left of the steering column)
80 km/h = 50 mph
50 km/h = 30 mph

The odometer would also change from KM to Miles if you had accidentally pushed the button (62000 miles = 100000 km)

[happy hopping]

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[J-hop]

So for the speedometer to be wrongby that much your gearing/tire size would have to be way out of whack. Post your tire size and also verify with gps what your gps speed vs speedometer speed is. A 5% difference between gps speed and speedometer speed is within reason but more than that and I’d question whether your setup is correct.


Not to side with the dealer but I personally doubt they’d screw around with something so easy to catch but I could be wrong

[happy hopping]

Minus the oil change issue...

Did you accidentally change the speedometer to read MPH? (I believe it is one of the buttons on the left of the steering column)
80 km/h = 50 mph
50 km/h = 30 mph

The odometer would also change from KM to Miles if you had accidentally pushed the button (62000 miles = 100000 km)

So that's what it is. I didn't touch anything. But somehow it is showing miles. Alright, let me delete this thread.

But that still can't explain all those false reading on the oil life gauge in the past 6 mth. though

[speedog]

Minus the oil change issue...

Did you accidentally change the speedometer to read MPH? (I believe it is one of the buttons on the left of the steering column)
80 km/h = 50 mph
50 km/h = 30 mph

The odometer would also change from KM to Miles if you had accidentally pushed the button (62000 miles = 100000 km)

You, sir, have most likely solved the dilemma.

As far as low mileage vehicles, they do exist - our last two SUV's were both ridiculously low mileage previously owned units, one still had the protective plastic wrapping on the DVD screen and player, headphones hadn't been unwrapped from original packaging. The other was under 70,000km for a 15 year old unit, senior's second vehicle that was used for church and groceries.

[killramos]

Oil indicators are a function of time and km. You probably timed out the oil and needed a change, despite not driving many km. Your car probably has a 6-month oil change interval...

Sounds to me like you switched the cluster to imperial as well lol.

I would recommend spending some time with your manual...

lol at deleting the posts after dragging dealers name through the mud. Also fire your mechanic friend.

[ExtraSlow]

I vote this as the thread of the evening.

[killramos]

I vote this as the thread of the evening.

The more I re-read the funnier it got.

[Seth1968]

Lol at whole thread.

Now enough with the weather thread FFS:)

[ShermanEF9]

aw man, i missed the fun. TL;DR?

[firebane]

aw man, i missed the fun. TL;DR?

OP came in swinging that Honda West did altering to the odometer and also based this off their "friends" mechanic. Another poster questioned if they switched from kilometers to miles and that was the case.

[ShermanEF9]

in what world would Honda West benefit from doing that? OP, get new friends.

[Team_Mclaren]

fuck this is lame, i wanna see the OP

[speedog]

OP is the same person who wanted to get gull wing doors mounted on Honda Civic coupe or something like that, that was a special thread as well.

Noticed OP has deleted their posts in this thread, so ballsy OP is.

[rage2]

I bought my car from honda west in June 2017. It's a black Honda Civic Si Coupe, 2010 model. There is only 1 previous owner, and his name is Owen.

At the time of purchase, I paid $13,704, because the mileage shows it's only 94000 km. That's quite low, as an average user does about 20,000 per year, so a 7.5 yr. old car should be around 150,000 km.

As soon as I started driving the car, I already complain in writing via email to the dealership that the "Oil life" indicator is grossly wrong. It drops like there is no tomorrow. It starts from 100%, but w/ very little usage, it drops 5% at a time. By Dec., when it's still under that 6 mth. warranty, I was at safeway that night, the oil filter shows 5%, by the time when I drive home, which is only a few km drive, it shows -58. So a 2nd complaint was sent to them in writing. In the end, I change the oil (a new 5L size of synthetic motor oil) when I only drive about 4000 km in a 5 mth. time frame.

Today, my odometer shows I'm at 62,000 km. Not only that, the speed indicator is also wrong. I was driving at the same speed on country hill blvd., and the speed limit is 80 km/hr., my speed indicator shows 50 km/hr. When I drive in my main residential road, the speed indicator shows 30 km/hr, but it really should be 50 km/hr. As I can easily tell the difference btwn. 50km vs. 30 km/hr.

I spoke to my regular car mechanic that I've been using for 30 years, he also said he strongly suspect honda west is tempering w/ the odometer. And that someone didn't do a good job, which would explain all these wrong numbers on my display in the past 8 mth. Now the only person benefit from this is Honda west.

So, what kind of compensation should I be expecting? And what procedure can I take? Is there a way to get a hold of the 1st hand owner, Owen, and find out what his sold car odometer is when he sold it to Honda west?
Just curious who your mechanic friend is and where he works?

[J-hop]

Well played.

[tomt64]

Just curious who your mechanic friend is and where he works?


Sounds like a dude thats never worked at a dealer because they always sussed out his superior intelligence in the interviews. :rofl:

[Kijho]

hahaha oh man this is gold

[JRSC00LUDE]

:rofl::rofl::rofl: if there really is a mechanic friend you should NEVER USE HIM AGAIN as he's dumber than a sack of Gestalts.

[Neil4Speed]

This was really great, reminded me of the old days of beyond.

[revelations]

Folks, these are the types of people that service managers have to content with on a daily basis. Its little wonder why so many of them are so jaded.

[ShermanEF9]

LOL the cars in mph :rofl::rofl:

[Kavy]

Folks, these are the types of people that service managers have to content with on a daily basis. Its little wonder why so many of them are so jaded.

Exactly!

I was at the dealer getting my TPMS reset a few weeks ago and there was a lady losing her mind because her key fob no longer started or unlocked the doors of her escalade. After yelling for about 3 minutes of how she was inconvenienced all day the Service Manager asked to see the keys then kindly said "these keys say Toyota on them, do you own another vehicle thats a Toyota?" She snatched the keys and said "this is bullshit" and walked out.....

[Mitsu3000gt]

Saw this thread and found it quite believable, I wouldn't put it past them. That dealership is as shady as they come. Then I saw what really happened :rofl: How was miles/km not the first thing both you (and your mechanic of all people) checked when everything was precisely off by a factor of 1.6?

[GrammarSS]

Folks, these are the types of people that service managers have to content with on a daily basis.

Contend. The word is contend.

[ExtraSlow]

Folks, these are the types of people that service managers have to content with on a daily basis. Its little wonder why so many of them are so jaded.

Contend. The word is contend.
I like this new user.

[SKR]

He's going to short circuit if he ever sees some of Gestalt's gems.

[Darkane]

Contend. The word is contend.

Haha!

What about the title? I read Honda West was warming his car.

[JRSC00LUDE]

He's going to short circuit if he ever sees some of Gestalt's gems.

It all just came together, I think Gestalt IS his mechanic.

[BokCh0y]

Hahahahaha this thread is pure gold!!! Wonder if OP will reach out to HondaWest for compensation seeing he was too dumb to realize it was switched from KMH to MPH.

[revelations]

Contend. The word is contend.

Yes, between my keyboard buffoonery and ENG being my second language, Im sure that 50% of my posts have grammatical, structure or spelling errors ..... LOL

[Seth1968]

Yes, between my keyboard buffoonery and ENG being my second language, Im sure that 50% of my posts have grammatical, structure or spelling errors ..... LOL

I'm contend with your posts :thumbsup:

[schurchill39]

This is easily one of my favorite threads lately! Rage with the quote after OP deleted it FTW

[killramos]

Any comments OP?

How about an apology to Honda West?

[rage2]

This is easily one of my favorite threads lately! Rage with the quote after OP deleted it FTW
I didn’t even know he deleted it. Had a busy day and had it quoted but unsent haha.

[max_boost]

So amazing haha

[Hallowed_point]

You cannot be serious. This is next level

[BokCh0y]

We're to the apology!!! Maybe this needs to go to hondawest haha

OP will never post here ever again.

[killramos]

Honda West should at least have a flag on his file:

“Note customer is a Nimrod”

[toastgremlin]

https://i.imgur.com/oNG5kvE.jpg

[Hallowed_point]

https://i.imgur.com/oNG5kvE.jpg

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