Re: Things that confuse upshift indicators?

["Braden Sayer" <sayerbj@hotmail.com>]

My suggestion is to pull the fuse for the thing and ignore it.  I always 
hated upshift indicators on all cars.
Brad


>From: Jorel <jorel140@yahoo.com>
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Things that confuse upshift indicators?
>Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 05:51:26 -0700 (PDT)
>
>        This new 16v of mine wants me to go for sixth
>gear while I'm cruising down the highway. As you all
>know there is no sixth gear, so now I am wondering
>what might cause this. Tires? I am getting new ones
>today, 175/60/r14, the same size as the old tires.
>These are bigger than the stockers on the 8v, so maybe
>that is the cause, but I'm not sure since I don't know
>what a 16v came with from the dealer.
>
>	The next cause might be the tranny, which was said to
>be replaced 2,000 miles ago along with the clutch. It
>does feel nice but maybe the gear ratios are
>different?  Other than this, I can't think of anything
>else. It seems I remember reading somthing about this,
>but I can't remember where. What I remember was
>somthing about recalibrating the indicator. Has anyone
>out there done this? That might require a knowledge of
>gear ratios and such for correct settings? Maybe I
>should just turn the thing off, since I pay it very
>little attention in the first place?
>
>Jorel
>
>85 8v
>87 16v
>
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