The odometer is a device which considers wheel turns; by means of it the distance passed by the vehicle is measured. They are electronic and mechanical. Process of changes of indications on the odometer of your car is the lawful procedure. But at sale of the car you have to specify that you made this procedure, otherwise you can be brought to criminal and civil responsibility.
At amateur designing, transformers with unknown parameters are quite often used. In this case there is a need to define windings of the transformer and their characteristic, in particular, number of rounds.