Re: motometer speedo???

["Randy B" <sirocco@telocity.com>]

I was hoping the VDO premature odo/trip death thing was just a
myth....but.....
When I hit around 197,000 with Mars (couple weeks ago), the VDO speedo's
odo/trip stopped :(
Could this have something to do with burying the speedo on a daily basis :D
Speedomotor still works fine though.
IIRC this is the original mileage on the car.
I am really bummed because I now no longer have an acurated measurement of
her miles anymore.
And DAMMIT, I was gonna celebrate when she hit 200K.
Oh well, I guess now it's time to replace that 85mph VDO with a higher speed
Motometer.

Randy (I'm peeling that VDO sticker off my toolbox - that'll teach em'!)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike VanAmburgh" <vmichael12@qwest.net>
To: "Scirocco" <scirocco-L@scirocco.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: motometer speedo???


> You don't see many VDO's make it over 120k miles.  The 160 mph Motometer
> out of my wrecked 88 is sitting on a shelf in my garage at the moment.
> The VDO that was originally in the car took a crap at 23k miles back in
> 1990.  My 88 325is also has a Motometer.  If BMW uses it, it must be
> good.  Doh!  :-)  Excuse me while I go run for cover...
>
> Mike
>
> Allyn wrote:
> >
> > my rocco has a 'motometer' speedo in it. what the heck. i thought vw
uses only VDO. i cant find
> > "vdo" anywhere on this one. what also gets me is that it looks exactly
like any other 160 VDO
> > speedo.
> > al
> >
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