968 Odometer Frozen ! Does Porsche Know?

[speedbird_747]

When I owned a 968 Sport (M reg) a few years ago I had some sort of short and blew the fuse which controls the sunroof (don't have the manual anymore so can't say which from memory). I subsequently discovered that the speedometer and odometer stopped working too.

As I was on a long journey I didn't attend to replacing the fuse until I got home. As the odometer is analogue the milage I drove that day wasn't recorded!

Do Porsche realise that one could drive around NOT clocking up miles until the fuse is replaced? Is there a secondary odometer hidden somewhere we don't know so the correct milage can be verified?

[22/11/71]

You can cheat the odometer by taking out the fuse, but your dealer can download from the ecu the total number of hours the car has been in use. A simple calculation using an average speed and the'll be able able to see if there is a massive discrepancy between the odometer reading and the calculated mileage.

They will not notice the odd couple of thousand miles missing though !!

[Speedbird_747]

I see v interesting.. can the ECU can be reset too??

[DustyC]

A good point to remember when on the market for a 968 then

[steve-p]

You should never take the recorded mileage as gospel truth anyway, even if it is backed up by MOTs or service history. My next door neighbour a few years ago always ran his cars for half the year with the speedometer disconnected. Bastard, I say Seems like theft to me.