103,500 milesOkay so i had a light bulb go out in my gauge cluster a while back and easy fix right? Well took it apart unplugged the cluster changed the bulb put back together. started truck and odometer was now flashing but mileage was correct weird, so I said what the hell and continued to drive it thinking one day i will come across someone with a computer and have the odometer synchronized with the bcu. No big deal, well i went to start truck today and now its flashing 167,400 now I say WTF i called the land rover dealer here and explained what happened & the response I was given was more than shocking. I was told that they would not be able to reprogram things and I should just leave it alone? They said that if they tried to re sync the bcu to the odometer that it would either stay at 167,400 or ad the 167,400 to the 103,500 ish and end up displaying 270,900 so I was lost for words at this point but wanted to share with you all my experience as strange as it may be.

 

Why would it decide to display 167,400??? Whats the connection?

Don't let the dealer's choice of words discourage you. They'll tell you anything. Let's see what other forum members have to say. Do you know an independent land rover specialist? Start calling around and poll the experts.

 

You've switched to Km's. Hold down the button until it changes back. Then they can sync it with no issues, cause you'll be back to 100k.

Though it sounds like you've got a problem with the cluster.. or maybe a loose connection causing it to power down or not talk to the BCU all the time.

 

My friend,
It could be just a bad connection.
But, who really knows.
You may want to get a cheap cluster from eBay and experiment with it.

I would think -
If you had the rover totally dead.
Pulled the battery power.

And, then took the cluster out.
Fixed the bulb
and put it back in.
the Rover would not know it was removed..

If the battery was connected....
then this presumes that the cluster has a CPU processor always running
which would notice the interruption...

But, if there is a checksum in a memory component on the cluster
and it mates up fine with what the ECU or BcEM expects, then I am not sure why there would be an issue - as they are matched.

Of course, Landrover will provide some way to prevent rollback.

You might query these guys I found with Google

Nationwide Speedometer and Instrument Cluster Repair

I used to walk past these guys too

Palo Alto Speedometer: Repair, Restoration, and Sales of Automobile Gauges

 

^ agree here. 100k miles is 160k km

 

Press and hold the trip reset for more than 5 seconds.

At 2 seconds or so, it will reset the trip meter, at 5 seconds or so it will switch the odometer between miles and kilometers.

 

I did the same thing. I must have pressed the trip button. hold it for 5 seconds, and you should be good. It was opposite for me i lost Klm.

 

You know how bad i wish this were the case. Its a few thousand off.

 

You are all logically speaking. But they said they had this happen once at the dealership and they never could figure it out. A customer brought in vehicle for same reason as mine and same crazy thing happened customer was so mad lawyers got involved and they ended up letting customer trade straight across to another used D II on the lot to resolve problem. I am telling you i have been driving rovers and working on them for 12 years and never heard or seen this before. They told it will continue to sporadically jump up in miles from here on out and only go up but never back down. I'm so flustered at this point.

 

You resync the bcu and the instrument cluster and you are fine. But its possible its stuck on km, it was changed in the bcu. You can change a lot of stuff in the cluster you just have to have the security feature with the LR machine.