I just pulled apart my instrument cluster today, and I found an interesting surprise... part of the instrument housing is melted.... one whole corner of the speedo mounting box is melted right off. I looked around in there with my flashlight, and I couldn't find any evidence of any sort of electrical fire, all the wireing & other parts of the dash seemed untouched - it looks almost like they melted it on accident @ the factory, then bolted everything in. I haven't had any electrical problems with it, and can;t see anything that might've burned... That brings up the question - the amount of damage that was done to the housing, and the speedo was untouched... that could mean a replaced speedo & possibly incorrect mileage... any way to tell 100%? all the record I have from the PO jive with the current miles, but that leaves 1.5years and 15K and a journey from michigan to Houston unaccounted for. It never seemed an unreasonable amount of miles, so I never thought about it. Anyways, I pulled the cluster apart & cleaned the faces - WOW - taking 84K of dust & grime off makes a lot of difference... I don't recommend doing this - it isn't hard, but if you haven't done it before it can be tricky. Oh, and I inadvertently fixed my intermittant speedo problems... seems some mysterious red paint was coated around where the speedo clips in, and was preventing it from seating tight all the time. So the vanagon saga continues... === Mark 87 Westfalia Gl 84 Scirocco 8v http://members.tripod.com/~jehanno _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com |
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