Old wives tale, that. I've been pushing my reset button on the move for ~145,000 miles on the one van and ~15,000 miles on the other and my odometers are both still working. Of course, now that I've said that publicly they'll both die next week! =) On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Geo & Kathleen Hahn < ahwahnee@cybertrails.com> wrote: > Perhaps worth mentioning as an ounce of prevention (unless this is an urban > legend) that one should never push the reset button whilst the van is > moving. Easy to do as you pull away from the pump and realize you didn't > zero the trip odo... but I believe it can break the works. > > Doesn't break it every time (I can attest to that) but it's risky behavior. > > Geo > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Tuovinen" <mst@AK.NET> > To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> > Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 12:16 PM > Subject: Re: Odo/Trip Counter > > > >> There is information in the archives and on various websites on how to >> repair it yourself... >> >
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