>At 2:03 PM -0500 8/8/97, Carl Krucke wrote: >>I just called: >> >>Speedo-Tach San Diego Inc >> 1569 1st Ave >> San Diego, CA 92101-3001 >> 619-235-0314 >> >>The man I spoke with there knew just what I was talking about before I >>really described it and said to send them the old little plastic odometer >>gear as a sample and they would send back a new one, for "about 8 bucks". David Schwarze <des@tiu.net> replied: >Wow, if they had offered that to me when I called, it would have saved me a >lot of time. When I told them I had taken my Vanagon speedo apart and >found a broken gear, they just told me it would be $75 to repair it. Guess >I should have been a little more aggressive. That's why I was so surprised, all of the other instrument shops I've talked to, about 8 of them, wouldn't consider selling just the gear. I can understand that if the speedometer was affected in any way by the repair, because it is a calibratable thing, and repairing it requires skills they can't assume the average person has, which could potentially bring a liability to them. The odometer, on the other hand, is not calibratable. (unless you can find gears with fractional numbers of teeth... ;P ) When I asked him about the gear, I was specific in saying odometer, and not speedometer, but I don't know if that was what made a difference. Carl
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