After disconnecting my battery my odometer rolled back 14,000 mi, I spoke to Anthony from TVT, great help.
He made a few calls for me and found out that it's an issue for some early models so it will be at the dealers next Monday, wish me luck.
Has anyone had this problem?

 

how much did it rollback 1400 or 14? does it rollback everytime you disconnect.. could be one way to get a car back under warranty :-)

 

14,000 the car is under warranty.

 

I would have to say, that looks like a real problem... for Chrysler!

 

Kinda makes you think... but I know how karma works.

 

can you give us a step by step instructions of what you did. I wouldn't mind rolling back 14k miles.
what year is your car?

 

I could use an extra 14,000 miles...

 

If I rolled my SSB back 14k it would be negative 9K!!

MikeR

 

I had friends say its a good thing, the problem is my inspection, it will look like I rolled back the mi. plus if it is a problem with earlier Crossfires how maney we're bought with actually more mi.?

 

That's one way to pop ones little bubble!

 

Wow! I guess these cars dont like there batterys disconected. You have this and mine blew out the cd player/radio.
I am taking mine in tm. afternoon. (my nav cd is stuck in the radio)

 

I know how karma works and for one thing it works slooowww... im still waiting for bad things to happen to all the people that screwed me over in my lifetime...

 

Battery cable on - off ... on - off ... on - off... on... crap still the same.

 

Wow Tony!

I guess I lucked out still 37,000 miles plus...
Shouldn't Chrysler transfer all the performance data from the original ECU to the new one?

 

Mercedes was not exactly known for number one in reliability just a few years back. You have to remember that a lot of the early Crossfires and SRTs were built with old left over parts, all of them may have some left over parts in them. So you kind of have to expect something to go wrong. Good thing about the odometer is that it is completely seperate from the other systems in the car, so he won't lose the tune.

It is basically a self contained unit. I think it was going to happen sonner or later and the battery disconnect just pushed it forward. If it were to lose all of the memory it would've reset to 0 and it didn't.

If anyone starts ripping into these early cars you will see tons of mismatched parts all over the place. Wrong brackets, different motor mounts, odd bolts, missing pieces, exhaust hangers off of an 89 E series, etc... It's amazing the differences in each car. From all the Crossfires I have worked on, no two were the exact same. It makes it that much more interesting to work on.

 

They're just keeping you on your toes....

 

is there a part number for the odometer memeory chip? can I solder in a new chip or something like that?

 

I brought my car to the dealer today. They grabbed some numbers and ordered me a new radio. Should be in, in a few weeks. Half way home the radio made a noise and out popped the disk. I will have it changed anyway

 

Be careful taking the neg lead on and off the batt.
In the SLK these are based on the Ins clusters have been known to fail due to voltage spikes.
Chaps over on http://www.benzworld.org/forums/r170-slk-class/ fit Matson spike protectors from batt pos to earth.

Bazzle

 

maybe thats why my '05 had 350 miles on it with -256 on the FSS. They did say something about the battery being disconnected when I bought it