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• Re: Warning!!! Check Your Speedometer
  Historical mailing list - Mark Watts
  Sat, 11 May 2002 10:26:20 EDT
  Perhaps this is an prequel to (if I remember correctly) an Arthur C. Clarke Sci Fi novel where colonists move to a planet where...
• Re: Warning!!! Check Your Speedometer - What a Sad, Sad Example
  Historical mailing list - Ronald Gregory Smithers
  Sat, 11 May 2002 09:45:06 EDT
  I have received much help from the ***good*** people who read this List. To these kind souls, I am forever grateful. Now that I...
• Re: Intermittant Speedo?
  Historical mailing list - westydriver
  Thu, 17 Oct 2002 18:55:08 -0600
  ...jimt On Thursday, Oct 17, 2002, at 17:04 America/Denver, Stan Wilder wrote: > Has anybody ever not had Vanagon speedometer failures? > I drive...
• Re: Raining-no cruise control
  Historical mailing list - ian Butler
  Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:55:05 -0500
  ...speedometer) when hydroplaning (I was > doing 60 and the speedometer read 20). Rear wheel drive vehicle (VW > bug) and the speedometer cable connects to...
• Re: Vanagon not as fast as you think
  Historical mailing list - Bob Stevens
  Mon, 6 Sep 2004 21:25:12 -0600
  ...Vanagon not as fast as you think > > > You may not actually be going as fast as your speedometer indicates > since the Vanagon speedometer is...
• Re: Survey: Fuel Mileage? (min., max., average...?) Re: Survey: Fuel Mileage? (min., max., average...?) Re: Survey: Fuel Mileage? (min., max., average...?) Re: Survey: Fuel Mileage? (min., max., average...?)
  Historical mailing list - Kay O Fremgen
  Fri, 7 Aug 1998 16:45:15 -0400
  ...Here's a simple test to see how far off your speedometer/mile counter is. On a stretch of highway reset your trip mile...
• Re: Speedometer Part
  Historical mailing list - Edmund Shotwell
  Wed, 28 May 2003 11:40:03 -0400
  ...20, 2003 4:43 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Speedometer Part I have a 86 GL with an odometer problem. When I...
• Re: GPS Recommendation
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:12:29 -0700
  ...Much easier to see and use, much better data, and the 'Trip Meter' feature or the naviagaion scree both have a very readable speedometer...
• Re: CV Boots, accel & clutch cables
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Mon, 9 Jan 1995 13:02:25 -0800 (PST)
  >> Eastwood company has a Speedometer cable lubricator ... a little gizmo that >> fits on the end of a cable and allows a grease gun to...
• Re: Speedometer vs Tach
  Historical mailing list - Larry Hamm
  Thu, 15 Oct 1998 00:30:25 -0600
  John H. Rodgers wrote: > > -- [ From: John H. Rodgers * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- > > In my '88 GL, when in 4th gear on the highway...
• Gas Gauge
  Historical mailing list - JeanneMaly
  Sun, 12 Sep 1999 17:43:10 -0700
  Nearly 3000 miles after a major overhaul, including having the gas gauge and speedometer worked on, I have a question about the gas gauge...
• Re: '84 Westy Speedometer Accuracy
  Historical mailing list - Steve Cotsford
  Wed, 1 Jan 2003 13:42:58 EST
  If you have a friend with GPS about 15 mins is all it would take to get a fix on the accuracy. I have...
• Re: engineering nightmares vehicles was: cruise control speedometer sensor
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:53:29 +1300
  >I'm suprized at the trouble you subaru people will go >thru, (like making these circuits), to fit a cross bread >engine. IF a...
• Re: Odometer not working. Will 1984 unit work in 1990?
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Tue, 1 Aug 2006 17:17:49 -0700
  ...A few years ago http://www.speedometer.com/ fixed one speedo, now I'll have to send another one to them this winter. m...
• Re: No instrument lights or gas guage?
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:36:10 -0700
  ...my '80 Westy back to the house and have lost my > speedometer and clock lighting and the gas gauge is non-op (can't...
• Re: MPG
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Mon, 3 Sep 2007 22:54:04 -0400
  ...I often used it to check my speedometer. > I have found my speedometers of all my cars just about dead on accurate. > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________Ready for...
• Wheel C-clip
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:27:27 -0400
  I am going to replace the speedometer cable with the one that does away with the EG counter. I have already ordered the cable...
• What is that Google quick search tip for archives?
  Historical mailing list - Richard Koerner
  Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:50:52 -0800
  ...help me out? BTW, want to do a search on replacing speedometer cable (jumpy needle at low speeds) and it must be in the...
• Re: Transporter (Vanagon) Driving Position
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 1 Jun 1997 15:07:30 -0400 (EDT)
  ...Does anyone else have a hard time having a clear view of the top portion of the speedometer while driving? The steering wheel is...
• Need a speedometer rebuilt....who does this?
  Historical mailing list - Vanagon Man
  Tue, 20 Apr 2004 06:35:58 -0400
  If anyone can provide a name and number, that would be great. I have one where the place that the cable goes into on...
• Re: Wacky speedo...
  Historical mailing list - LOREN BUSCH
  Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:44:48 -0700
  ...BTDT Try checking down at the left wheel hub where the end of the speedometer cable comes through the grease cup. The end of...
• Re: Speedo Question (Not the beach type)
  Historical mailing list - Karl Hartmut Filc
  Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:31:52 -0400
  ...Speedo Question (Not the beach type) Hello, I was trying to figure out what the orange dots represent on my 84 gl automatic speedometer...
• Re: Bad has milleage
  Historical mailing list - Sam Walters
  Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:50:22 -0400
  ...As most know, the speedometer gets its input from the front tire, so a change there would produce a change in readings if all...
• Re: GPS speed accuracy
  Historical mailing list - Anthony Egeln
  Thu, 9 May 2013 06:13:22 -0700
  ...speed accuracy (KMM28238403I15977L0KM) > > > > > > > > Dear Todd Last, > > > > > > > > Thank you for contacting Garmin International. > > > > > > > > > > The speedometer on your device may display a different speed than the...
• Removing Speedo Face '80
  Historical mailing list
  09 Jul 97 11:18:45 PDT
  ...Thought I'd make this procedure public also. - Jeff '80 Westi > Jeff, > Do you know how to remove the speedometer needle on the Vanagon...
• Re: Choice of Lube
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 18 Feb 2014 09:21:01 -0500
  The squeaking-squealing is often from the speedometer head itself, not the cable. Lubricant will usually quiet it. You need to make sure the...
• Re: 1984 Speedos
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:46:30 -0700
  ...wrote: >> No way! My cluster is out of an '84 Wolfsburg full Westy and the >> speedometer has always been way, way off. I just...
• Re: odometer success
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 9 Aug 1997 11:16:29 -0400 (EDT)
  ...I can understand that if the speedometer was affected in any way by the repair, because it is a calibratable thing, and repairing it...
• Re: Speedometer -- the straight scoop
  Historical mailing list - Jaap Nauta
  Mon, 20 Jun 2005 15:57:10 +0200
  ...Maybe someone can help me with Mechanical Speedometer 101: 1. How do they work? 2. What can shift or age internally to cause them...
• (solution)Re: Instrument cluster speedometer needle break. #%@#%@#$%@!!!!
  Historical mailing list - Rajesh Injety
  Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:33:39 -0800
  ...I had cleaned it up nicely and I was putting it back together when I broke the needle on the speedometer!! grrr!!! It's...
• Re: Dash Cluster Needed, '86+
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:36:03 -0400
  ...There's a hole in the dash for a speedometer/odometer and they want to see one there, end of story. Yours, David
• Odometer
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 12 Nov 1995 19:33:03 -0500
  ...If I need to replace the speedometer how much is a new, used, overhauled one going to cost. Does the vanagon have a peculiar...
• odometer & hub cap enquiry
  Historical mailing list - Roy Jared Michael
  Mon, 10 Jul 1995 22:20:26 -0600 (MDT)
  I have an 82 Vanagon and when I bought it the odometer didnt work but the speedometer does. Does anyone have any suggestions before...
• Re: Help With Instrument Lighting Please
  Historical mailing list - Karen Winter
  Fri, 21 Mar 1997 12:39:13 -0500
  > ( My digital clock between the speedometer and odometer is no longer > backlit when I have my headlights on.) Dave, I have the same prolblem...
• Shift Points
  Historical mailing list - JASON M YASMENT
  Sat, 21 Nov 1998 10:44:22 -0500
  While my '84 has no tachometer, I shift according to the speedometer. 1st 10mph 2nd 20mph 3rd 30-35mph 4th 40-45mph I really...
• Re: Speedometer
  Historical mailing list - Richard A. Jones
  Mon, 8 May 2000 10:26:59 -0600
  Here are the markings on my stock '81 speedo: single red dot at 19 mph double red dots at 34 mph triple red dots...
• Speedometer light question - 82 diesel
  Historical mailing list - Jon Sykes
  Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:04:30 -0500
  Did some poking around my newly-purchased 82 diesel camper this weekend and realised that the instruments are lit from above and the one...
• "NorthStar" 88 DoubleCab Project - new photos
  Historical mailing list - Michael Vickey
  Sun, 8 Aug 2004 09:08:46 -0400
  ...Since getting it back, I've added a CD changer, put in a new speedometer cable (could have used a helper), and have done...
• Re: Vote on these two Momo Steering Wheels
  Historical mailing list - George Thorburn
  Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:27:25 -0600
  ...steering wheels are not worth the loss of view of the speedometer, tach and other gauges. I tried a smaller than stock wheel for...
• Re: OXS light
  Historical mailing list - Zoltan
  Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:08:55 -0700
  ...I tried (many times) to reset the mileage counter by pressing the button on the speedometer cable box, as described on vanagon.com. It...
• Re: questions about automatics
  Historical mailing list - John Lauterbach
  Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:07:00 -0400
  ...It just seems to up shift way sooner that my Mercedes > does. > > Secondly, I an a little confused about the speedometer markings.The > speedometer...
• Re: Odometer clicking/ not working?
  Historical mailing list - Eckie Prater
  Sun, 7 Feb 1999 20:59:44 -0600
  ...cable,electrical connector and 4 screws ). >With panel out,remove the speedometer (4 screws-DO NOT OVERTIGHTEN when >reinstalling as it breaks the plastic...
• Re: Tires (The never ending story)
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Libby & Denise DeWolfe
  Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:08:31 -0500
  ...I want to minimize the effect a change in tire > size may have upon my speedometer so it would be helpful to know the...
• Re: 1984 Speedos
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:46:03 -0400
  At 09:37 PM 4/13/2010, Kevin Gilbert wrote: >My Garmin indicates a highway speed about several mph different than >the speedometer. Do...
• Re: Speedometer house repair suggestions ?
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:45:32 -0700
  On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:41 PM, neil n <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote: > > With production costs in mind, I would suspect that...
• Re: Differences between 82 and 83 turn signals?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:53:44 -0400
  ...more accurate 83 I had and of >course the 4-speed speedometer unit with the 5-speed 83 with the >correct shift point and...
• The Repairs
  Historical mailing list - Bob Bergeson
  Sat, 27 Mar 1999 15:28:27 -0500
  ...Does anyone know where to get these? I also put the speedometer cable in today. It was relatively easy except for some foreign material...
• Re: A little more to the story of how we got our Vanagon...
  Historical mailing list - Cory Sammons
  Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:48:59 -0400
  ...date? > > -=kt=- > just a comment from the KISS people Is the speedometer in kmph or mph? Cory Sammons 84 Westy 99 New Beetle Gardiner...
• NVC Can anyone recommend a volvo list?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:03:59 -0500
  ...The main issues with the car other than the exhaust leak are missing front turn signal plastic left and right and the speedometer doesn...
• Re: New owner with question
  Historical mailing list - Geo & Kathleen Hahn
  Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:25:00 -0700
  ...141K miles on original >motor and no major repair...yet! > That's the beauty of that grossly inaccurate speedometer on the '84s -- for years...
• Re: Speedometer gear
  Historical mailing list - Joe Federici
  Mon, 3 Dec 2007 08:36:27 -0500
  This would not work for a syncro correct? I thought they have a different gear size. JFF On Dec 3, 2007, at 8:04...
• Re: Vanagon not as fast as you think
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Tue, 7 Sep 2004 00:03:34 -0700
  ...Vanagon not as fast as you think > > > > > >You may not actually be going as fast as your speedometer indicates > >since the Vanagon speedometer is...
• Re: power
  Historical mailing list - Rian Mullins
  Sun, 24 Oct 1999 14:16:35 -0400
  ...I am the only person i know who doesn't have to check their speedometer when they spot a cop. (Maybe if I had...
• aircooled intake elbow
  Historical mailing list - Jamie Foust
  Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:05:57 -0500
  ...I am also looking for a good speedometer cable, the upper cable that connects from the egr box to the speedometer - but I need...
• Re: Tire Question (not the dreaded tire thread at all)
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:55:45 -0400
  ...Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:05:23 -0500 >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> > >> > >> > Vanagon speedometers can often be optomisitc anyway. >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> True They can be optomistic but I found mine...
• Re: Odometer/Speedometer OoC
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:07:27 -0700
  ...one > >> of three new problems (odometer, speedometer, trip meter): "Then there's > >> the > >> matter of getting the speedometer needle back in the right > position...
• Speedo/odo Electrical ribbon removal
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Mon, 11 Aug 2003 10:55:32 -0700
  I'm not sure if this is in the archives, but the Blue electical ribon on the back of my Speedometer/odometer needs to...
• Re: Insturment Cluster
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:30:09 -0400
  At 05:01 PM 9/21/2012, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote: >Look for the DOPS mounted behind the speedometer .......that also makes >it an...
• Re: Gauge Mounting Options
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:10:35 -0700
  ...I've had several times to deal with the invisible/blocked speedometer problem that tall people like me have in Westies with the raised...
• Shocks, springs and bird tweeting
  Historical mailing list - Tom L. Neal
  Thu, 17 Jun 1999 10:36:35 -0700
  ...Entertaining, but it doesn't harmonize well with all the racket the speedometer sometimes makes. Any ideas what this tweeting sound might be and...