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That's six digits, plus the tenths.    A lady across the alley is selling her 87 Grand-Am, with 44447 km.   It's a digital odometer, but I didn't get a good look at it to see if there was a spot for the 100,000 digit.

I'm presuming by 1987, and especially with digital odometers they'd introduced the 6th digit.

 



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The digital speedos in that other brand, for the 90s, showed 9999.9 then went to 100000

They used the same 6 digits for display after 99,999 kms but left the tenth off.

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Our 87 Grand National only had 5 digits, and I know the new style pickups that came out in 1988 had 6 digits so I'm assuming that is when it all changed but maybe not all models changed at the same time?



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Her interior is like new, so hard to imagine it being 144,447 km.

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According to Ebay this is the cluster for that car. Looks like it goes past 100k

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Canadian Poncho wrote:

According to Ebay this is the cluster for that car. Looks like it goes past 100k

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 Definitely not the right cluster, this car across the alley has an electronic (LED) odometer.



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Are you sure it's an 87? I had an 89 which I'm sure had an LED cluster (and it read over 100k)



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Are you sure it's an 87? I had an 89 which I'm sure had an LED cluster (and it read over 100k)

 The build date on the door sticker was 12/86, making it an 87.    I only quickly looked at the odometer, and yes it was LED (or as I incorrectly said 'digital').  However I didn't look to see if the odometer had space for a 100,000 digit.  

I'd presume when they switched to LED they had the extra digit.



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I believe they had an optional digital cluster in those years.

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I dont recall ever seeing an led odometer that wasnt 6 or 7 digits.

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Canadian Poncho wrote:

According to Ebay this is the cluster for that car. Looks like it goes past 100k

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This cluster based on the psuedo-carbon fiber look, is 1989-1991, or maybe even 1988-1991.
The earlier cars had a muted silver gauge surround.



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4SPEED427 wrote:

I believe they had an optional digital cluster in those years.

 My recollection was that the Turbo 2.0L cars had a digital odometer.

I quite like these cars.



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