Odometer and Trip inaccuracies.

[McSniperliger]

So at current my truck has 66,157 miles on it. However the trip lags behind by about 2 miles, so that is saying there's 66,155 miles. What causes the discrepancy between the two if the tripometer cannot be reset like it can in real life?

[AyMazingATS]

2 miles on the truck when you bought it?

Trip meter can be reset, however total mileage can't be.

Options >> Keys & Buttons. Assign a key for Trip Info Reset to reset your trip meter, mpg, etc.

[McSniperliger]

Never saw that option. Truck was built new, never bought used.

[AyMazingATS]

Even brand new vehicles can have miles on them. This is normal. Nothing wrong here.

[The Pitts]

The primary difference between the trip and the odo in the underlying data is that the latter has a separate floating point portion that the trip does not. It would not surprise me to see a discrepancy of one mile between the two although two miles feels like a stretch given that the underlying values are stored in kilometres.

[McSniperliger]

Originally posted by The Pitts:

The primary difference between the trip and the odo in the underlying data is that the latter has a separate floating point portion that the trip does not. It would not surprise me to see a discrepancy of one mile between the two although two miles feels like a stretch given that the underlying values are stored in kilometres.

At least watching both, it seems to be about a 1,5 mile difference between the two.

I know that new vehicles can have some miles on them. I've seen some come off the truck with as low as 1 mile and I have seen them come in with over 120 miles on the clock.

[_KC76_]

Originally posted by AyMazingATS:

Even brand new vehicles can have miles on them. This is normal. Nothing wrong here.

I didn't have time to test every truck from every dealer, but I did confirm that this is true in-game.

The Mack Anthem base model truck, comes with 13 miles on the odometer, no matter what dealer location you buy from, nor which garage you place it in, nor whether you buy Online or In-person. Every base model, pre-configured Mack Anthem Daycab (first selection in Dealer) comes with 13 miles.

Contrast with the KW T680 2014 base model, that comes with zero (less than 1) miles, same scenerios.

[The Pitts]

Well ain't that the darndest thing. Most dealer trucks have no odometer attributes but the Macks all have 22.01 kilometres on the clock whilst the International Lone Stars (but not the LTs) all have just the 100 metres.