Date:         Mon, 14 Mar 2005 01:01:55 -0500
Reply-To:     Sam Walters <sam.cooks@VERIZON.NET>
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From:         Sam Walters <sam.cooks@VERIZON.NET>
Subject:      Re: Life after speedometer, why do they break?
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Chris and other list members,

I drove my 84 Vanagon as my daily driver for almost 20 years and pushed
the reset button while moving after about 85% of my refills.  It never
broke.  That van has gone to the crusher.  In my other vans I do it less
because conventional list wisdom says I am going to break it if I do,
but I still do it while moving sometimes, although I usually do it with
the clutch in and coasting for some reason.  I just usually forget to
push the reset while in the station and remember after I am moving and I
don't want to get out of traffic to stop and reset it.

How do we really know that this resetting while moving breaks tripmeters
and that it is not just that some of them break because they are old and
we are assuming that it is because they were reset while moving that
caused the breakage.  I don't ever remember seeing this explained, but
just seeing the assertion that they will break if you do this.  But
maybe it has been explained.

If someone has explained this in the past, just point me to the post by
telling me about when you wrote and the user name you had at the time.
I'll look it up.

In the meantime, I'll try to be good and reset my tripmeter in the gas
station just to be safe - but inquiring minds want to know, do I really
have to do this?  :<)

Sam

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Sam Walters
Baltimore, MD

89 Syncro GL
85 Westy Weekender

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