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Date:         Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:38:13 -0400
Reply-To:     "Stewart, Donna" <DStewart@REEDSMITH.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "Stewart, Donna" <DStewart@REEDSMITH.COM>
Subject:      Re: trip odometer myth
Comments: To: Mike Miller <mwmiller@cwnet.com>
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Sometimes, but not very often. Usually reset before I pull away from the gas pump, but push it on the go if I forget while at the service station.

-----Original Message----- From: Mike Miller [mailto:mwmiller@cwnet.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 9:33 AM To: Stewart, Donna; vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com Subject: Re: trip odometer myth

Yeas but did you reset the trip odo while moving?

Mike

On 4/16/03 9:05 AM, "Stewart, Donna" <DStewart@REEDSMITH.COM> wrote:

> Mine just broke this year, bought van new in 1988 (leftover 1987). Have > around 145,000 miles on it. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Marshall [mailto:Willolyn99@AOL.COM] > Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 7:20 AM > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: trip odometer myth > > > OK, I've heard enough. If you push in the trip odometer button while > moving, > you will reset the odometer. That's it. The first thing that happens when > you push the button is that the gears disengage. So, it won't matter if > it's > moving or not. > > Those of you who have had their vans since new, did these break the first > time you tried it? No, probably not until the plastic aged for a decade. > How is it that everyone (including me) talks about how the speedo plastic is > brittle and broken, but no one thinks the trip odo is in the same condition? > Mine broke, and it was the brittle plastic ring that holds the axle in > place. > A weak design, and the plastic was brittle. I rebuilt it with JB Weld and > it is now permanent. > > I'll bet that the workings get sticky with age and lube drying out, and you > have to push harder to activate it. Combine that with old brittle plastic > and you've got breakage. I reset that thing on the fly every tank of gas > for > 6 years. I figure that was 500 times before it went. Why didn't it go the > first time? Or first 50 times? > > Because it is a myth. > > So that's my rant, hope you enjoyed it ;-) > > Bill Marshall > '85 GL Tiico "Pandora" > Aurora, IL >


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