Date:         Mon, 21 Nov 94 13:09:32 PST
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From:         agibb@darwin.bio.uci.edu (Alice C. Gibb)
Subject:      Re: trip odometer

>this talk of a non-operating odometer reminds me of a warning:
>
>DO NOT reset the trim odometer while the car is moving.
>
>this is true of all vw's, volvo's, bmw's and other cars with vdo speedometers
>.. this is a really quick way to break that little gear inside there. this
>came about from my sister's volvo years ago ... after the service dept.
>replaced the speedo, they told her about this. :)  and it seems to have fit
>all the broken odometers that i've run into.
>
>of course, if your speedometer doesn't have a trip odometer, this does not
>apply. :)
>
>joel

I'm sure that this is what has been done to this VW.  It is actually the
trip odometer that is (proximally, at least) getting stuck - it gets stuck
on 9/10 readings.  Do you think we can fix this if the little white gear
has been broken this way?  Or should we resign ourselves to getting a new
(or used/salvaged) odometer?  We have lots of super glue - what breaks?



Alice C. Gibb
Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Univ. of California, Irvine

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