Lincoln odometer question

"Petey the Wonder Dog" wrote

Lincoln what? Continental? LS? Navigator? Town Car?

Does it have an English/Metric button for the odometer? If it does, switch from Miles to Kilometers and see what that says. 5780 miles = 9305km

That's a brilliant idea, Master Blaster. I'll check on that. And thanks for the numerical figures too.

Dave

I bought a 1998 Passat TDi with only 60,000 on the clock. Before I got my money back I found out that it wasn't 60,000 but 140,000 and everyone who had seen it told me that it was in fantastic shape for

It's possible that your Lincoln only has 5780 but I would be suspicious without records from the day it was sold showing oil changes, etc.

That's a good point which I certainly had intended to look into before secuing a deal. The seller is a Lincoln-Mercury dealer. They should have or be able to get any service records, if done at a dealership, I would think. But we'll see.

While I don't own a Continental, there's one other possibility. On startup, I know that some digital odometers will do a sort of diagnostic run along with all the other indicator lights on the dashboard. When everything lights up, you should see a full row of 8's on the odometer for a second or two before the mileage is displayed. If that gap is still there on startup and it happens to be about the width of an 8, then a digit is out. Likewise, if the gap is "filled" when the row of

Lastly, you could always take the car to another dealer. Have them hook up a scanner to the ECM and see what mileage it reports independent of the odometer.