Mine does the same thing... one of the gears are chipped / missing a tooth within the speedo mechanism.
apparently [?] pushing the odometer reset while the car is moving will cause this...
tom
---------- From: Vanagon Mailing List on behalf of Holmes, John Reply To: Holmes, John Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 3:52 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Wacky speedo... Speaking of speedo's... My '87 speedo at times acts funny. Sometimes when I start driving it doesn't register at all, then wham, it pops up and begins working. Once it kicks in it works fine for the duration of the drive. It only does this about 25% of the time....something loose somewhere? Thanks, John in Omaha -----Original Message----- From: Malcolm Stebbins [mailto:mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 12:48 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Need a speedometer rebuilt....who does this?
Try: http://www.speedometer.com/ They fixed my speedo. M --- Vanagon Man <vgonman@MSN.COM> wrote:
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