Piper Dakota rolling over to 2000.0 tach hours

While recovering from slow flight, I noticed the tach was going to roll over to 2000.0 tach hours. Glad I got to catch it on camera. Does this mean the airplane is no longer "low time"?

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[reichec]

Why would you want to?  Parts cost money.

[reichec]

You use the engine logs to determine how many hours on the engine. You dont have to replace the tach when you replace the engine.

[revowild]

question. does this mean the airframe has 2000 hours or the engine??

[reichec]

@revowild The airframe is now 2000 hours old since the tach is original. It reads a little slow but also is in tach time which isnt really a linear time. The engine was changed at around 1850.

[revowild]

when you get a engine change why dont you change the tach with a new one so it reads 0?

[revowild]

@reichec so how do you tell how many hours is on the engine. and also do you replace the tachmeter when an overhaul is done?