Odometer error messege ERR 1

[WILD-BILL]

This is the second time my odometer stopped working and all it displays is ERR 1.

The last time I was able to find something on the web that seemed similar and after pushing the 2 buttons a couple different ways I ended up resetting the odometer to 0.

I'd really like to find what may be wrong and hopefully get it back to reading the proper mileage again.

I tried talking to a couple dealers and service techs about it but they all seem either lost or not willing to help try and diagnose the problem.

Any help would be appreciated.

[WILD-BILL]

[Indy Itasca]

Can't believe some one with some real knowledge hasn't jumped in here. Odo's come from the chassis manufacturer. I'd try giving them a call. Freaky that you could reset it back to zero. Had one replaced on a car once and had to keep a document stating what the true miles were.

[4Knights]

My pace arrow odometer hasn't worked since I bought it, chevy wants me to mail it to them and they will try to fix it for around $450.00 not that important since each time I called I got a different reason it wasn't working and a different price to fix.

[WILD-BILL]

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Originally Posted by Indy Itasca Can't believe some one with some real knowledge hasn't jumped in here. Odo's come from the chassis manufacturer. I'd try giving them a call. Freaky that you could reset it back to zero. Had one replaced on a car once and had to keep a document stating what the true miles were.

Had I know I would have posted in the Frieghtliner section.


Perhaps a Mod can move it there.

[Martind4]

If it's on a Freightliner Chassis, call 1-800-FTL-HELP. Have the last 6 digits of you VIN# ready and they can tell you exactly what's wrong.

They have a great reputation for solving these kinds of problems.

[chasfm11]

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Originally Posted by Martind4 If it's on a Freightliner Chassis, call 1-800-FTL-HELP. Have the last 6 digits of you VIN# ready and they can tell you exactly what's wrong. They have a great reputation for solving these kinds of problems.

I agree.

I didn't jump in because my 2000 model sounds like the Odometer setup is different from yours.

Chassis in my model year range have all of the instruments driven off of a Controller Area Network (CAN) bus. What this means is that a single pair of wires carries all of the gauge data from the engine area to the front where a "spider harness" re-distributes it to the individual gauges. Each gauge is able to recognize its own data on the bus so you can do things like swap the cables between the speedo and the tack and both gauges continue to work normally.

My odometer went out (it would just freeze at a point for many miles) but that was because the road speed data which is fed from the Allison transmission to the Cummins ECM was getting corrupted. If yours had a similar setup, I'd figure that it had to be something in the display head itself because all my odometer is is a multiple position set of lights. The actual numbers are generated in the electronics and transmitted via the CAN. When my odometer failed, the speedo was failing, too. I have VMSpc, a pc program that reads the CAN messages and I could see that speed data was not on the CAN buss. I found a loose connector in the road speed data feed circuit right before it went to the Cummins ECM. I got no error message for that, just a check engine light and a "road speed invalid" message on the bus.

I'm not sure that any of this would be much help to you. BTW, I worked with Freightliner support on my speedo problem and after I fixed it, they wanted to hire me. I learned more about how the CAN works on their chassis than many of their techs knew. I can assure you that I didn't want to know that much about it.

[WILD-BILL]

Thanks guys.

It may be some time before I can but I will give them a call and if any progress is made I will post the results.

I sure hope I can get the correct mileage to display again.