Frozen odometer

[Marc Getty <marc@getty.net>]

> >     Yesterday on the way back from visiting an out of town friend my
> > odometer just quit working.  It remained frozen for the whole trip home,
> > which was about 150 miles!  Both the trip and regular odo are stuck.
> > This has happened once before, but then it magically started working
> > after about 20 miles.  Now it really seems to be fucked.
> >     First of all, how is the odometer driven in a 16v 88 w/ manual
> > tranny?  Is it integrated into the speedo cable?  If so, that has me
> > worried because the speedo is fine, so I doubt it's just a loose cable.
> > Anyway, any ideas you guys have would be great.
>   if you find out, please let me know as well.

I had this happen to me last month. It was the trip odometer getting stuck at
a certain number. I was able to get it to work for very short period of time
if I pressed in the trip odometer reset a couple of times.

It did fix itself after cooling off for an hour and then continuing on my
journey. Just a ghost in there if you ask me.

-Marc

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