I asked about a quote to fix my older car (not VW), and they said it would take 30 days in the shop… To be fair, the part in question has the odometer data, but surely they can just pull the part, transfer the data, re-install, and they’re done. Should take less than a week…
They typically send those off to a third party. You can usually find those services on eBay. You pull your old cluster and they transfer the data. There’s other ways to do it too, but that’s the typical way of doing it. Personally, I have a used cluster in my car with the incorrect mileage. My state doesn’t record mileage when you transfer the title, so I just need to disclose to whoever I sell it to that the mileage is not correct.
Yeah, apparently that’s the case here too, and I’ll be going that route. I just thought it was ridiculous that I’d have to leave the there for a month and probably pay like $1k. Surely they have the equipment to do the transfer, no?
No, they don’t usually want to mess with odometers because of the liability. I think most manufacturers require that the cluster is sent to them in order to verify the correct mileage and then program a new one. There’s aftermarket tools for doing it on some models, others you can just dump an eprom with a cheap programmer, it just depends really.
