09-10-2008, 11:18 AM
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How to get mileage reading at the junkyard??
Is there a how to on getting the mileage when at the junkyard?
Persumably there should be a way to power up the appropriate spot to get the dash display for mileage on.
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09-10-2008, 12:14 PM
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Originally Posted by zzyzzx
Is there a how to on getting the mileage when at the junkyard?
Persumably there should be a way to power up the appropriate spot to get the dash display for mileage on.
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Ask the junkyard. The yards around here have it all on file.
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09-10-2008, 12:15 PM
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hook on a booster pack and jump the wires behind the ignition swithc. just gotta find the right ones.
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09-10-2008, 12:16 PM
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with a decent battery and some tinkering, i'm sure you could, but i can't really see the benefit, unless your planning on ripping the gauge cluster out and trying to pass that mileage off as your own....
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09-10-2008, 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by cherrington17
but i can't really see the benefit, unless your planning on ripping the gauge cluster out and trying to pass that mileage off as your own....
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probly to find out the milage on the engine or tranny to see if its worth taking out for replacement or modification...
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09-10-2008, 02:27 PM
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Originally Posted by whiterider00
probly to find out the milage on the engine or tranny to see if its worth taking out for replacement or modification...
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Or even just engine parts.. Yes, this is my reasoning for asking. I would have thought that there would be a How To on this by now. The junkyard I go to are U-pull-it places. They don't have any info on the car. Normally the battery is removed, but I probably could drag one to the car. Not sure what good that would do without the key though.
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09-10-2008, 04:33 PM
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i wish there were those types of places around me. every place here you have to call with parts u need. they call you back with the price (usually pretty steep), and then you have to go down within a certain time or they put the shit back. should be able to just go and get what you need.
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09-10-2008, 04:35 PM
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Some Aleros, if you push the trip button, the milage will light up. Mine doesn't do it, but I was told some of them do.
Of course this is with the car off and battery in place
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09-10-2008, 09:43 PM
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I'll have to give that a try, just out of curiosity. I can't say I've ever heard that before.
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Originally Posted by Redog
Some Aleros, if you push the trip button, the milage will light up. Mine doesn't do it, but I was told some of them do.
Of course this is with the car off and battery in place
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I've heard that on some cars you can grab the power and ground wires going into the cluster and hook them to a cordless drill battery to make them light up. In the case of my 99, I would guess that it would be the orange wire (A12 on the cluster connector) for power and the black/white (B7 on the cluster connector) for ground. Anybody know if that would work for the Alero? Or would you need to grab the purple (A2) for switched power maybe?
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09-10-2008, 09:48 PM
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Yes you can do that as long as it's a 12 volt source
I personally witnessed a guy controling power locks with a 12 V drill battery
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09-12-2008, 09:31 AM
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Anyone try the pushing the trip button with the ignition off yet?
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09-12-2008, 10:45 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by zzyzzx
Anyone try the pushing the trip button with the ignition off yet?
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I did just now, mine doesn't do it either.
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09-12-2008, 02:41 PM
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My interior is gutted so I can't check that one at the moment.
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09-12-2008, 03:17 PM
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This type of thing should be somewhere in the factory service manual, I would think. Exactly where to look in a book that big would be the hard part. It could easily be the case and we are doing it wrong. I shall go searching for generic GM related stuff and maybe I can find something.
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