# New car manufacture date question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-car-manufacture-date-question/688844>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 20, 2014, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-car-manufacture-date-question/688844 "2014-05-20T17:16:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![GreasyJack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df705f/32.png) [@GreasyJack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreasyJack)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2014, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-car-manufacture-date-question/688844/21 "2014-05-22T23:32:40Z")

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> [@WolfpackJeep](#):
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> My '97 Grand Cherokee has a Trip A odometer in the same space as the actual odometer; it’s accessed by pressing a little button. The trip odometer only has five digits; the sixth spot is taken by a decimal place (tenths of a mile).

Somewhat off-topic, but I had an '07 Dodge truck and the trip odometers on it only went up to 6213 miles. I was using the Trip B to keep track of the 7,500 mile oil changes I was doing and noticed “hmm, it seems like I’ve been about 1,000 miles away from an oil change for a while” and hit the US/Metric button and… d’oh!

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**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-car-manufacture-date-question/688844/22 "2014-05-23T05:15:20Z")

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I know that my Trip B odometer can be switched to metric…I’m not sure about the Trip A one, since it’s on a separate display. Interesting!

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