VDO or MOTO?

[thescirocco@juno.com (thescirocco@juno.com)]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 02:10:50 -0700 "monster" <monster@aros.net> writes:
> Heres one that will cook your noodle.....
> My cluster is a VDO.. I was stupid and Sunday evening I fried it.  
> Poof no more. (yes I cussed).
> Monday I got a foil (thats what ETKA calls it) from the yard.. it 
> says MOTO something on it.  Yea I know... good technical name.  Someone
on the 
> list said you HAVE to keep MOTOs with MOTO and VDO with VDO.. then why
do 
> I now have a MOTO foil and VDO cluster and all the instruments work
BETTER 
> than before I fried the system?  HHmm huh HHmm. come on already? :)
> HEY!  nice 4K tranny in the orange rocco at the yard.  Sad day for 
> Roccos though.. I WITNESSED the silver one going to the crusher. :/ 
Damn, 
> and I wanted the shifter knob out of that one too!
> Anyway I have a feeling this might turn out to be an interesting 
> thread.
> -=John=-

I installed a brand new MotoMeter 160MPH speedo in an '87 16V Scirocco
VDO 140MPH/8K cluster. It was a little tricky, because the circuitboard
inside the speedo had to be swapped to the new speedo. At first I thought
I'd have to get the needle and the speedo face off, but all I had to do
was unscrew the speedo face, and work the PCB in place.

I think it's the '82-84 VDO and Motometer clusters that are different,
but that's only from what I've read here.

Btw, the foil is different on 16V VDO's w/upshift light, versus the VDO's
with the temp gauge down by the fuel level gauge..

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