Chevrolet 1997 Cavalier Owner's Manual page 124

Speedometer and Odometer
Your speedometer lets you see your speed in both miles
per hour (mph) and kilometers per hour
(km/h).
Your
odometer shows how far your vehicle has been driven,
in either miles (used in the United States) or kilometers
(used in Canada).
Your Chevrolet has a tamper resistant odometer. If you
see silver lines between the numbers, you'll know that
someone
has probably tried to turn it back, so the
numbers may not be true.
You may wonder what happens if your vehicle needs a
new odometer installed.
If
the new one can
be
set to the mileage total of the
old
odometer, then it must
be.
But if it can't, then it's set at zero
and a label must be put on the driver's door to show the old
mileage reading when the new odometer was installed.
Trip Odometer (If Equipped)
RPM
APPLY BRAKE TO
SHIFT FROM PARK
The trip odometer can tell you how far your vehicle
has been driven since you last reset the trip odometer
to zero.
To set the trip odometer to zero, press the knob to the
right of it.