Original K's ??

[godzilla]

Hey all, I was washing and detailing my "new car" today that i bought from Joe down in Melbourne when i noticed a sticker in the engine bay ( on the radiator support ) that concerns me a little, the ODO says the car has travelled only 37xxx K's but this sticker which is in Japanese has a reading of 61,115 KM. Now i am as i said not sure what this means, just starting to worry a bit that the K's on the clock are far from Legit. Any idea guys? Also i have a photo but i cant work out how to get it up here, its a .jpg but is 120kb any ideas how to post it?

 

[frozen]

it wouldnt be the first car to have it happen unfortunately.. one case a guy had 67k kms on the clock when on another site (the importer's) it was advertised as 114k kms.. I hope mine are accurate, but im pretty sure they are as i found similar japanese service stickers which worked out about right..

 

[Guest]

What is the sticker on ? maybe something had to be replaced and the sticker shows the km's of what it came from.
There are many rumors afloat of dogey km reading from japan. At least 67,000km's is still low, the only concern is whether to do the timing belt early.
Can u get the correct km's from the ecu somehow ?

 

[Guest]

It may be possible to get the km from the BCM if a leggy has one. <<< Body Control Module not sure what mitsu call it

 

[godzilla]

Yeah im not sure what it is, like i said it is on the radiator support and is in Japanese. I have the photo but cant do anything with it ??

 

[bradc]

If it was 10000km or so more than your current ODO I'd suggest it is a sticker that tells you when something is supposed to be changed. Is there a date on it?

 

[godzilla]

I want to show you guys the pic, please help me post it.

 

[weeaazz]

you need to have an account on photobucket.com then upload it there,then you can cut and paste the direct(second down) link it gives you into the box that pops up when you press that colorful button^^

 

[godzilla]

Try this.....

 

[bradc]

use a free image host, do a google search there are tons out there

 

[godzilla]

Is that pic i just posted not working for you ?

 

[Guest]

I found a service sticker in my car, its also in Japanese and it has 67,000km's on the sticker and mine is just over 80,000 so I know mine are the real deal.

 

[bradc]

Your sticker says that it needs to be replaced or done by the 17th of April 2013, or 61xxxkm's.

So your low km's are genuine!

 

[godzilla]

just cant work out what the deal with the other numbers, they aren't a date. If that is the ODO reading when something was carried out that could've been ages ago . the rest of the car is great, the engine and engine bay are spotless, and i don't mean degreaser clean. The interior is clean, a little bit of wear on the edge of the drivers seat. The exterior is great with only the bodykit letting it down in places. So it looks like maybe i should look at changing the timing belt? unless that is what that sticker indicates?

 

[godzilla]

Your sticker says that it needs to be replaced or done by the 17th of April 2013, or 61xxxkm's.

So your low km's are genuine!

How do you work that out from those numbers Brad?

 

[bradc]

the 25 is their calender year. Their current emporer or whatever will have been in charge for 25 years in 2013.

 

[godzilla]

I see......
I appreciate your reassurance Brad
Any ideas on ( ? ) has to be replaced then ?

 

[Guest]

I have copied the pic from here, I will get my Japanese PA to translate it on Monday morning.

Check out this link, I get all my cars JEVIC inspected.

http://www.jevic.co.jp/jevic_english/inspectionservices/index4.html

I will contact you on Monday with the translation.

Cheers

 

[godzilla]

Thank you very much Steve i would appreciate that.

 

[bradc]

no idea what it is, but it doesn't need to be done for a while!