Can you advance the mileage in the clusters? Power it up and supply power to the motor in the odometer? Or can a dealer do it?

 

if you replace the computer, you have to download it. the bcm will ask for mileage. once it is burned in there thats it. i guess you can input pretty much any mileage you want. although thats wrong. i had to throw away a couple bcm's cause it got burned with the wrong mileage.

 

could a dealer do that or like a independent shop? I want to do a cluster swap, but transfer miles along with it.

 

unless the cluster is self contained, if i remember correctly, you can just plug a new one in. or are you trying to get over with your broken *** evo?

 

trying to get over with my broken *** evo? what do you mean by that? and my evo is parked right now, and it sure isn't broken! I want to do a cluster swap on my es.

if you mean broken because of the seat... hey that's my dealer for you, I'm not going to tell them there isn't anything wrong with it when I got my SRS light turned off for free.

 

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I wanted to change my cluster too, cause I got speedometer needle sticking... I was wondering what was going to happen to my miles? And what is bcm?

 

I was thinking body control module, but im most likely wrong

 

I was thinking about this... there should be a memory chip/module inside the cluster... could you swap those and still retain miles?

 

The mileage is retained in the cluster not in the main computer (at least the main computer mileage is not transferred to the cluster). If you want to do a swap, you have two options. You can buy a cluster that is close in mileage to you, maybe a little over so when you hit that mileage you can swao without worry or you can buy a new/used cluster, and have the dealer set the mileage.

 

The dealer can do it with a MUT tool.

 

Do you have an idea of how much it would cost so I wouldn't get screwed by a local dealer here?

 

Most dealerships will shy away from anything like this since it's a criminal act to tamper with the odometer. You can always go the other route and purchase a used one from a wrecked vehicle or race car. I see them on ebay all of the time.

The memory for the mileage is stored in the cluster only, and not the ecu.

 

So somebody can be messing around with miles. Good thing for car fax and all the companies that dial in your milege while performing services

 

I would think the dealership would be willing to modify the new cluster so that it has the same mileage as the old.