Negative Odometer Reading

Negative Odometer Reading

This usually happens when the device that was recently plugged into a new vehicle was previously plugged into a different vehicle and had an existing odometer and engine hours offset.

Please follow the below steps remove the offsets:

Navigate to the Bulk Edit Add-In on the database: Administration > Bulk Edit 
.
If the bulk edit tool is not added , Please refer to this link How-do-I-access-the-new-Bulk-Edit-Add-In

Steps

  1. Select Device on Asset
  2. Select Odometer offset (km) on Properties.
  3. Select your vehicle on the Manual changes tab and enter 0 on the Odometer offset (km) field.
  4. Click on Submit my changes.


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