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• Re: Trip Odometer Myth(?)
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Fri, 18 Apr 2003 08:31:28 -0700
  ...Trip Odometer Myth(?) >> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 21:19:45 -0700 >> >> Body seams, plastic over lights, metal pipes front to back for cooling...
• Re: '84 GL NOT in the woods
  Historical mailing list - Bob Berkemer
  Mon, 5 Feb 2001 15:27:56 -0500
  ...that: > > The Speedometer isn't working > The Odometer isn't either > Niether is the Trip Odometer > Or the Coolant Temperature gage > Nor the Gas...
• Re: Odometer stopped
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 15 Oct 2001 20:27:47 -0500
  Joseph McNiff wrote: > Hi all, > My Odometer stopped working, also trip counter at the same time. My > mechanic says its $200. He says they...
• Re: Trip Odometer Myth(?)
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:53:46 -0400
  On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, Andrew Grebneff wrote: > >If any one thing on a Vanagon screams junk it has to be the speedometer. > > Engine...
• Question on failing speedo but odmeter still works
  Historical mailing list - KEN FRY
  Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:04:39 -0800
  My 89 wolfie speedo is intermittently not working, but he odometer woks just fine as well as trip meter. Is there an easy fix...
• Re: Life after speedometer
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 14 Mar 2005 06:55:45 -0600
  ...I noticed that I was able to reset the >> trip odometer when I pressed the bar attached to the gears, and that >> the >> black...
• Re: speedometer repair shop in Boulder or Denver? WA? OR?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Stewart
  Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:13:05 -0700
  ...Unfortunately six days before a long westy trip! > I'd like to keep the odometer to actual mileage, thus a local shop > would be...
• Re: Trip Odometer Myth(?)
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Thu, 17 Apr 2003 09:23:47 -0500
  ...Between the odometer failing, the drive gear backing off and just general inaccuracies I've found that just continuous replacement has been less $ than...
• '84 GL NOT in the woods
  Historical mailing list - MICHAEL D LINCICOME
  Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:05:14 -0500
  ...The Speedometer isn't working The Odometer isn't either Niether is the Trip Odometer Or the Coolant Temperature gage Nor the Gas Tank...
• Re: Odometer/ tripometer broken
  Historical mailing list - Karl M
  Wed, 12 Jun 2002 21:26:31 -0400
  ...Odometer/ tripometer broken > Does anyone else have problems with the gears in the vanagon odometer > sliping out of alignment? > If so has someone got...
• Re: All Fine, Durango, Co. to Asheville, North Carolina But Odometer Not Working
  Historical mailing list - miguel pacheco
  Tue, 4 May 2010 22:22:59 -0600
  ...Trooper ran great! Not one hiccup and I am VERY happy >>> with it!......although, recently, on a trip to Leadville, Co., the >>> odometer (88...
• Recommendations, anyone?
  Historical mailing list - Gab and Em
  Mon, 9 Jul 2012 10:28:05 -0400
  ...235000km'ish (odometer axel that holds the digit wheels in place keeps sliding out of place so that the odometer gear (in the dasboard...
• Re: Need a speedometer
  Historical mailing list - Harvey Chao
  11 Sep 1995 14:14:25 -0700
  ...Sure would like to have an odometer/tripometer again, especially since my gas gauge is flaky, and I was using the tripometer to keep...
• Re: Odometer - needs resetting
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Thu, 11 Nov 1999 20:47:56 -0700
  ...Odometer - needs resetting > Hi > > Thanks to good advice gleaned from the archives, I think I just fixed my > dead odometer...... took a long time...
• An Even Littler Trip Report
  Historical mailing list - J Stewart
  Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:21:36 +0000
  ...miles round trip, Vanagon never missed a beat (except one brief period where the speedo needle dropped to zero ( ok 10) odometer kept going...
• Link to Gaspe trip report with pix
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:46:46 -0700
  ...this together.� Interesting trip to a very scenic place, and the van worked wonderfully every mile.� The re-rebuilt odometer never missed a lick...
• Re: Life after speedometer
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:09:16 EST
  ...I noticed that I was able to reset the > trip odometer when I pressed the bar attached to the gears, and that the > black...
• Insturment cluster repairing and speedometer repair
  Historical mailing list - roger sisler
  Sun, 29 Oct 2006 12:02:00 -0800
  ...One speedo I have wont work for the odometer and trip odometer. I think the PO pressed the button to reset the trip odometer...
• Re: '84 speedometer failure
  Historical mailing list - Chad Lyles
  Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:37:22 -0800
  ...no speedo, no trip meter, no odometer. nothing .... On Nov 16, 2007 12:22 PM, Matthew Snook <matt@snooksband.com> wrote: > Thanks for the...
• Re: Diesel mileage update
  Historical mailing list - Gnarlodious
  Mon, 6 Dec 2004 08:23:12 -0700
  Entity Hans Achter spoke thus: > Gnarlie, > On one of those trips could you calibrate your odometer for us against the > highway mile markers, > over...
• Re: Speedometer Ok -Odometer and trip meter dead!?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Sat, 20 May 2006 04:05:47 -0700
  ...Speedometer Ok -Odometer and trip meter dead!? > You are right and this has been explained several times on this list > over the years. Some...
• Re: New Engine Gas Mileage Report
  Historical mailing list - Steve Williams
  Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:13:50 -0700
  ...Busch wrote: >Are you using the odometer/speedometer on the dash? Yes. >or are you using the trip meter on a GPS? I don...
• Re: Speedometer Noise
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:42:58 -0400
  Push in your trip odometer button. It may be partially engaged and cause the gears to be snicking.... On Oct 21, 2004, at 2...
• Re: MPG
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Mon, 3 Sep 2007 17:42:45 -0700
  ...that many speedometers read a little fast. >> You should compare your trip odometer to highway mileage markers to see >> what factor it's off...
• Re: Fuel gauges -- who needs 'em?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Janello
  Thu, 4 Jan 1996 18:31:52 -0500 (EST)
  ...Copley writes -- > >As for feeling worried about running out of gas on long trips, just use > >the odometer as a gauge (THAT works, right...
• Hauted Westy
  Historical mailing list - Brush, John
  Tue, 6 Jul 1999 08:28:19 -0600
  >Yesterday as I was filling up my trusty steed with liquid dinosaur, I reset >my trip meter as I do each and every time...
• Re: trip meter
  Historical mailing list - Jack Botts
  Mon, 1 Apr 2013 16:55:02 -0500
  ...vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > > My trip meter quit working but odometer still works. any ideas?
• Re: Diesel mileage tire question (odometer accuracy
  Historical mailing list - Gnarlodious
  Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:21:49 -0700
  ...Entity Warren Lail spoke thus: > I am about to embark on a 2500 mile trip Really, where to? -- Gnarlie PS: Congratulations for getting Maggie...
• Odometer failed, any advice?
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:29:56 -0800
  As the subject line states, just yesterday after I tried to Zero out the tripmeter on my 84s' odometer, it now no longer works...
• Re: Need a speedo and SORRY
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Mon, 11 Sep 95 16:23:56 CDT
  ...that is, if you start rolling away from the pump, and reset the trip odometer, the little gear will get broken after you do...
• Re: Odometer stopped
  Historical mailing list - Chris Stann
  Tue, 16 Oct 2001 09:00:23 -0500
  ...Usually it is the small metal gear on the end of the cluster that drives the trip odometer that fails. My Jetta did the...
• speedometers for older buses ...
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Sat, 15 Jun 96 02:38:08 CDT
  for those of you wanting trip odometers in your speedometers for older buses, start checking with junkyards and speedo repair places. remember that while...
• Re: 82 odometer/tripmeter
  Historical mailing list - '80 Westy Pokey
  Sun, 10 Jun 2001 06:49:47 -0700
  ...82 odometer/tripmeter -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My odometer and trip meter quit working recently. The speedometer works fine. Are these possible to repair? Has anyone on list...
• Re: odometer problem
  Historical mailing list - Tom Miller
  Mon, 24 May 2004 16:26:27 -0400
  ...My odometer only works in the morning. I drive a 2 miles to work every day, > and it works for the entire trip, but...
• Re: No odometer or gas gauge, what now
  Historical mailing list
  11 Jun 97 07:29:05 PDT
  ...trip meter has called it quits The symptoms: When the tenths of a mile ring reaches nine, it freezes. This also freezes the odometer...
• Re: New Engine Gas Mileage Report
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:48:23 -0700
  ...How are you calculating your numbers? Are you using the odometer/speedometer on the dash? or are you using the trip meter on a...
• Re: Vanagon in Upstate New York
  Historical mailing list - Benjamin Tan
  Sat, 9 Dec 2000 07:40:54 EST
  ...Most Vanagon odometers break when people inadvertently reset the trip odometer while the van is in motion. Chances are, the van you're looking...
• Re: Odometer rerpair, 1980 (was 1985)
  Historical mailing list - William R. Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648
  Tue, 21 May 1996 20:29:40 EST
  ...The trip odo has a lever arrangement that takes it out of mesh with the main one while the trip odo gets reset. I...
• Re: trip odometer
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Mon, 21 Nov 94 15:47:33 CST
  ...It is actually the >trip odometer that is (proximally, at least) getting stuck - it gets stuck >on 9/10 readings. Do you think we...
• Thanks All (odometer)
  Historical mailing list - Bill Marshall
  Tue, 13 Aug 2002 09:47:14 EDT
  ...My odometer quit recently, but thanks to the endless input of the list I was able to repair it, without even accessing the archives...
• Re: VDO Trip/odometer repairs- Phoenix
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 11 Sep 1995 14:54:01 -0700
  ...the gear for my '83 Westy/Vanagon with the dead tripmeter and odometer. I was told that they could not sell just the gear...
• Re: Speedometer question
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Wed, 1 Jun 2016 12:26:48 -0700
  ...The > trip meter is still running fine. The three rightmost digits have recessed > back into the odometer body, so I suspect the shaft has...
• Re: Dead Odometer
  Historical mailing list - Jim Cain
  Mon, 30 Aug 1999 21:19:09 -0400
  "Anderson,Chuck" wrote: > > Both the odometer and the trip meter have stopped working. All of the other > gauges are fine. The van has about...
• Re: Dash Cluster Needed, '86+
  Historical mailing list - craig cowan
  Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:08:01 -0400
  ...systems? >> > > The law may also require an odometer, the "total miles" requirement > probably excludes resettable trip odometers. > > Should be fine with just a GPS...
• Re: odometer and trip-odometer stopped
  Historical mailing list - '80 Westy Pokey
  Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:43:20 -0700
  ...Typically, if your odometer doesn't work and your speedometer does, the problem is caused by resetting the trip mileage counter while driving down...
• Effects of tire sizes on fuel economy!
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 22 Feb 2004 18:09:04 -0500
  ...trip including some touring. Average mileage was 17.4 miles per gallon. Tires were Goodyear Wrangler Aquatreads, 215/70-14, (~26" diameter). Speedometer/odometer...
• Re: Odd-ometer repair
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Tue, 15 May 2007 21:28:03 -0400
  ...After driving across town, I looked > down >> to see that the odometer hadn't changed and the trip meter was still on >> zero. The...
• Re: Odometer rerpair, 1985
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 20 May 1996 00:16:51 -0400
  ...TELIS.ORG (Lund) writes: > >Help! My odometer is frozen. I think it is related to the trip meter >which, when you push the button...
• Re: MPG
  Historical mailing list - Wesley Pegden
  Mon, 3 Sep 2007 22:11:30 -0400
  ...that many speedometers read a little fast. >>> You should compare your trip odometer to highway mileage markers to see >>> what factor it's off...
• Re: Trip Odometer Myth(?)
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Thu, 17 Apr 2003 21:19:45 -0700
  Body seams, plastic over lights, metal pipes front to back for cooling, rear drum brakes, ... On 4/17/03 8:24 PM, "Andrew Grebneff...
• Re: turned 200,000 on the odometer!
  Historical mailing list - Chris S.
  Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:35:35 -0700
  Happy numerically significant odometerous mileage event! f.) plan for the next 200,000 Ryan Alfonso <vangina@GMAIL.COM> wrote: What is the ritualized celebration...
• Re: WTB: Speedometer for my 87 Westy
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Wed, 4 Nov 2015 08:08:20 -0500
  ...odometer still work? On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 12:12 AM, James Kim <jkim.phd@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > On our trip...
• Re: An Even Littler Trip Report
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Mon, 8 Jul 2013 18:58:33 -0400
  ...miles round trip, Vanagon never missed a beat >(except one brief period where the speedo needle dropped to zero ( >ok 10) odometer kept going...
• Re: Unreliable Vanagon engines!
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Sat, 16 Feb 2008 07:40:41 -0600
  ...254,455 >miles on the odometer. Will that engine make one more trip? > >Wave if you see me. > >Dennis
• Re: Vanagon gas mileage
  Historical mailing list - developtrust
  Tue, 23 Dec 2003 19:17:43 -0800
  Before I had my speedometer rebuilt recently the trip odometer would be sticky even when pressed at a stop. Now it resets smooth as...
• Sporadic Speedometer ('80 Westy)
  Historical mailing list - Jason Milam
  Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:43:25 -0700
  ...Now my odometer (and trip meter) are working perfectly (for now), but the speedometer works only sporadically. About 50% of the time it seems...
• Re: odometer success!
  Historical mailing list - Jason McDaniel & Christina Kellaway
  Fri, 08 Aug 1997 00:27:06 -0500
  ...No Vanagon Content On early bus trip speedos ('67 and earlier) the trip odo should NEVER be reset while moving. I have had to...
• Re: Speedometer question
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 1 Jun 2016 21:12:07 -0400
  ...The trip meter is still running fine. The three rightmost digits have recessed back into the odometer body, so I suspect the shaft has...
• Speedo rebuilders in Texas?
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 5 Sep 1995 13:48:38 -0400
  ...The gear to the trip odometer broke before our big vacation, and Bob got the thing kinda working again. The odometer worked, but was...
• Re: Odometer stopped
  Historical mailing list - Ben McCafferty
  Tue, 16 Oct 2001 13:00:47 -0600
  ...Usually it is the small metal gear on the end of the cluster that drives the trip odometer that fails. My Jetta did the...