Hi.

Some family has just bought 2008 500, with an android radio.

Odometer is flashing, and I think it's because of this.

Is there any fix for this?

Did it originally have the blue & me system? Are there steering wheel buttons?

Yes and yes

Disconnect the battery have a coffee and try 're connecting it?

There's also lots of other things to check that are age related but sort this issue first.

Could be the battery itself, if its been sitting around for a while up for sale

The odometer is flashing because the CAN data bus configuration does not match the stored configuration. Typically this is because a unit is faulty or had been removed. As most Fiat radio are connected to the CAN bus it is likely that the radio change has caused this.
The cure is a proceedure known as Proxy alignment. A Fiat specialist can do this or to do it yourself you need a compatible OBDII interface, adaptor lead and a computer running Fiat specfic software. The most popular is probably Multiecuscan www.multiecuscan.com Even buying the interface and software just for this is likely to be cheaper than paying a dealer to do it.

Robert G8RPI.

I second what Robert says! My advice to anyone who have issues is to get yourself multiecuscan I’ve had the experience of having to pay over £100 at a dealership just for a diagnostic that now takes me 5 minutes

In the long run it pays for itself

Baglady1990 said:

In the long run it pays for itself

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Almost correct.

Baglady1990 said:

I’ve had the experience of having to pay over £100 at a dealership

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At those prices, it might be more nearly correct to say that in the short run, it pays for itself.

In the long run, it could save you a fortune.

I've been told it's not possible to proxy align an aftermarket radio. So how can this help anything?

FrederikN said:

I've been told it's not possible to proxy align an aftermarket radio. So how can this help anything?

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The car will allways show the radio error on the body computer


But it is 100% the get everything working correctly and stop your millages flashing with the after market radio

I added a double din pioneer aftermarket and did a proxy and all good!
My mileage was flashing after I disconnected my blue me module! It just shows within the software there is no stereo I guess due to the original being removed and disconnected