Originally Posted by JARblue

It sounds like you are talking about the numbers that are shown side by side with a slash in between them. The number on the right is the mileage reminder and the number on the left should be the current mileage since setting the reminder. If you just reset it for 5K miles, you should see 0/5000. That zero should change as you drive the car. If you have the reminder turned off, it will read 0/0.