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Old January 26th, 2014, 8:08 AM
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I recently purchased a used 2005 K2500 Chevrolet Suburban. The odometer mileage corresponds to information obtained on Carfax so I believe the odometer to be correct. Most of the service work on the vehicle was performed at a Chevrolet dealer so I'm under the impression the information feeds into Carfax.


However, when I scroll through the Driver Information Center and I look at Trip A and Trip B I see the Trip B mileage is much higher than the odometer reading. How can that be?


The odometer reading is approximately 86,000. The Trip A mileage seems to correspond to the tankful of gas so I think the seller was using Trip A to calculate (keep track of) fuel economy, local trips, etc. The Trip B amount is 137,000. So even if the Trip B was never reset it seems like it should read the same as the odometer. Is there something I'm missing?


I posted this in General Tech because it might apply to other vehicles.


Thanks for your help.
Old January 26th, 2014, 3:02 PM
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I've been looking around on other car forums and several people have asked a similar question to mine. Most of them have subsequently determined there is a decimal place (for tenths of a mile) on the trip meter but not on the odometer. That doesn't seem to be true with mine although I could certainly be wrong. I looked closely at the Trip A and Trip B readout and I don't see a decimal point.


Am I overlooking something?
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Greetings nvestysly, welcome to the Forum.

Please don't be discouraged by the lack of responses, people are reading your posts. It's just that it seems that no one has a reasonable answer to your question, and sorry to say, neither do I.

Be patient, it's possible that the right person hasn't run across this thread yet.

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Both trip odometer readings are in tenths.
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