Date:         Thu, 18 May 2006 18:46:26 -0700
Reply-To:     Evan Mac Donald <macdonald1987@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Evan Mac Donald <macdonald1987@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Speedometer Ok -Odometer and trip meter dead!?
In-Reply-To:  <C0929438.850E%robertmstewart@mac.com>
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This is unfortunately not a new or rare problem for Vanagon odometers. Any time the trip reset is pressed, and the van is even THINKING about moving, it kills the odometer. The staking on the drive gear is very weak, and can be undone easily, by no more than this. I no longer touch mine if the engine is running! The only repair that lasts any stretch of time is a replacement speedometer/odometerhead unit. I had mine apart 5 times for various repairs and fiddles, before I gave up and admitted defeat. Just be careful with the replacement - check out the number at the bottom of your present speedometer, and make sure the replacement matches. The number (usually "805" or "807" on US-spec Vanagons) refers to the tire - revs - per - mile count. Should not be a problem, but look carefully, just to be sure - and you know Syncro speedometers are different animals altogether, right?

  I had no clue when this first happened to me and my Vanagon. My milage went to hell in a handbasket, at least before I figured out that my odometer was dying, and was not registering all the distance travelled. Funny how that works....;-P

rtmstewart@MAC.COM> wrote:
  Hello Everyone,

Herešs a new one for me....

Speedometer Ok -Odometer and trip meter dead!?

I was driving the van about a week ago and pressed the trip meter a stop
light, soon after is stopped working right. It moves and stops and at 1mile.
Then yesterday I am driving yesterday I look down at the odometer and
realize that it is not moving! I drive another mile or 2 and still nothing.

So is their a fix? Or do I just need and entirely new speedometer unit?

Thanks,
Rob
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Rob
NYC/Long Beach, NY
88 Wolfsburg, Silver