How to get mileage reading at the junkyard??

zzyzzx · 09-10-2008, 11:18 AM

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.

CactusWill · 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.

Ask the junkyard. The yards around here have it all on file.

jayson_waltz · 09-10-2008, 12:15 PM

hook on a booster pack and jump the wires behind the ignition swithc. just gotta find the right ones.

cherrington17 · 09-10-2008, 12:16 PM

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....

whiterider00 · 09-10-2008, 01:26 PM

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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....

probly to find out the milage on the engine or tranny to see if its worth taking out for replacement or modification...

zzyzzx · 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...

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.

whiterider00 · 09-10-2008, 04:33 PM

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.

Redog · 09-10-2008, 04:35 PM

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

surreal_awakening · 09-10-2008, 09:43 PM

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

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?

Redog · 09-10-2008, 09:48 PM

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

zzyzzx · 09-12-2008, 09:31 AM

Anyone try the pushing the trip button with the ignition off yet?

CactusWill · 09-12-2008, 10:45 AM

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Anyone try the pushing the trip button with the ignition off yet?

I did just now, mine doesn't do it either.

surreal_awakening · 09-12-2008, 02:41 PM

My interior is gutted so I can't check that one at the moment.

zzyzzx · 09-12-2008, 03:17 PM

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.