Date:         Sat, 9 Aug 1997 11:16:29 -0400 (EDT)
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         ckrucke@awod.com (Carl Krucke)
Subject:      Re: odometer success

>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