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• Re: better gas mileage
  Historical mailing list - Bill Marshall
  Tue, 9 Sep 2003 15:26:29 EDT
  The best way to check is to fill the tank to shut-off, reset trip odometer, drive it, then fill the tank again to...
• broken speedometer mounts
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Tue, 9 Nov 2004 22:44:42 -0600
  Howdy, In addition to my trip odometer disintegrating (I never reset it while moving I swear) I've found that the speedometer mounts in...
• Re: fill up overfill
  Historical mailing list - Neil Wigley
  Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:57:16 -0700
  ...When you do fill, zero the odometer (trip mileage counter). When you're going to fill, divide the new odometer mileage by 20 (8...
• Re: mile counter
  Historical mailing list - Leon Korkin
  Fri, 18 May 2001 22:26:48 -0700
  Do you mean trip counter, one you can reset? Or odometer? There is no fuse for it, it's mechanical device. Find speedometer repair...
• Re: Advanced Timing Causing Starting Problems
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Tue, 19 Jun 2001 09:47:26 -0400
  ...before the trip back. Total gas used was 20.0 gallons, for a combined average of 22.1 mpg. The odometer reading is very...
• Re: Never a Dull Day (Coolant Burp)
  Historical mailing list - David Bohannan
  Mon, 5 Jun 2006 19:07:22 -0400
  ...in my new steering rack and, lo and behold the odometer and trip odometer are not working- right that is...time to get into...
• Re: trip odometer myth
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Wed, 16 Apr 2003 23:16:19 -0400
  Joel Walker wrote: > maybe they've gotten better. maybe it was only the pre-19xx > models. but it has happened to my fambly. > so...
• Re: Life after speedometer, WTB
  Historical mailing list - Mary Creasy
  Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:54:12 -0500
  ...My trip odometer stops every so often but I slide the gear back and am good for another season or so. Old owner tried...
• Re: Need speedometer for '88
  Historical mailing list - Don in North Carolina
  Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:32:58 -0500
  ...When I got the van (for free - thanks Chamilka!) the odometer and trip meter did not work, but the speedometer did - with no noise...
• Re: Speedometer Noise
  Historical mailing list - Melvin Mudgett-Price
  Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:27:35 -0400
  ...Speedometer Noise Push in your trip odometer button. It may be partially engaged and cause the gears to be snicking.... On Oct 21, 2004...
• Tire size question
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 5 Dec 94 21:09:11 EST
  ...what effect does running a larger tire have on the odometer, speedometer and trip meter? If for example there are 195s instead of 185s...
• Re: Speedo Accuracy Discussion
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Wed, 10 May 2000 16:28:44 -0700
  ...the odometer readings for both my famed reliable Toyota PU > and the Vanagon are dead on for the entire length of the trip. In...
• Re: What I'd like to see in a Vanagon...
  Historical mailing list - Tim Demarest
  Sat, 5 Feb 2005 13:02:24 -0500
  ...both making frequent glances at the gas gauge (dropping) and trip odometer (climbing)... Found a gas station with fumes to spare, and didn't...
• Re: trip odometer
  Historical mailing list - William R. Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648
  Mon, 21 Nov 1994 16:37:28 EST
  I don't really follow why resetting the trip odo while at speed should be a problem; when you look at the odo-guts...
• Re: FS: 87 Vanagon Westfalia
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Wed, 28 Apr 1999 07:58:24 -0700
  ...87 Vanagon Westfalia > Now wait a minute! He must have rolled back the odometer because that trip > to the moon should have added many...
• 84 Vanagon GL for SALE!!!
  Historical mailing list - John Rainey
  Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:37:27 EDT
  ...it. Odometer reads 191,000. It has some rust nothing that bad though. It runs great and can go for long trips or just...
• WANTED: Syncro MPH Speedometer
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Mon, 1 Apr 2002 10:36:55 -0800
  ...now ;) Anyone have a Syncro MPH speedometer out there with a trip odometer? Please let me know how much it is an I will...
• Re: Speedometer question
  Historical mailing list - Roy Nicholl
  Thu, 2 Jun 2016 18:05:59 -0300
  ...the odometer decided it was tired (at only >>>> 218,799 kms) and it now sounds like theres a gear slipping internally. >>> The >>>> trip meter...
• for your entertainment ... a short story
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Sat, 14 Jan 95 03:00:17 CST
  ...the odometer turns, the trip odometer turns, and the needle indicates the mph ... he decides the fellow must have meant that it was mis...
• Re: Trip statistics
  Historical mailing list - Bruce Todd
  Thu, 27 Aug 2015 17:44:44 -0700
  ...odometer failed north of Las Vegas, so the last three entries were > calculated by GPS/Rand McNally. > > Overall, had a safe and enjoyable trip...
• Re: Odo/Trip Counter
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:18:09 -0400
  ...How > complex of a job is fixing an odometer, and will the mileage be > returned to > zero if they fix it? (I hope not...
• A Vanagon mystery? Please Help
  Historical mailing list - Chris Wright
  Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:40:35 EDT
  ...or cracks, and the odometer itself works fine (no symptoms of the odometer freeze caused by setting the tripometer while the car is moving...
• Re: 300k!
  Historical mailing list - Zolly
  Sat, 3 Jul 2010 20:15:52 -0700
  ...300k! > After a trip to Kroger today I returned home and the odometer read 299,999 > miles. Tomorrow the odometer will pass 300,000...
• Re: Recommendations, anyone?
  Historical mailing list - John Meeks
  Mon, 9 Jul 2012 10:49:25 -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...
• Speedo repair question
  Historical mailing list - TJ Hemrick
  Tue, 1 Oct 2013 21:53:20 -0400
  ...on list that fixes the stupid speedos? I have no Odometer, no trip > meter (no gas gauge!--separate issue but will fix that soon...
• Re: FS: 87 Vanagon Westfalia
  Historical mailing list - Dane Tessler
  Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:10:44 -0400
  ...87 Vanagon Westfalia >Now wait a minute! He must have rolled back the odometer because that trip >to the moon should have added many...
• Re: Gas mileage
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:33:14 -0400
  ...I first noticed it when I made a trip from Houghton to Madison and noticed the odometer said the trip was something like 30...
• Speedometer question
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Thu, 2 Jun 2016 13:06:21 -0700
  ...the odometer decided it was tired (at only > >> 218,799 kms) and it now sounds like theres a gear slipping internally. > > The > >> trip meter...
• Re: The Ideal vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Chris S
  Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:45:32 -0400
  ...The heads have never been off the engine and the odometer just turned past 182,000 miles. I'm taking a nice camping trip...
• Re: OT: Who needs a Ford when they have a Syncro
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Wed, 31 May 2006 14:00:43 -0700
  ...id=106 > That's a pic from the GoWesty crew's trip to Baja California over New Year. <http://www.gowesty.com/Baja_2005...
• Re: turned 200,000 on the odometer!
  Historical mailing list - Joseph Fortino
  Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:54:43 -0700
  ...turned 200,000 on the odometer! > >> What is the ritualized celebration for this momentous event? Gotta >> be some >> way of acknowledging that the distance...
• Re: Odometer
  Historical mailing list - Dan Beatty
  Sun, 12 Nov 1995 19:26:34 -0600 (CST)
  >Anyone know how to repair the odometer, mine doesn't work and the gas gauge >doesn't either. Makes for an interesting trip. If...
• Re: Unreliable Vanagon engines! I mean trannies!
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:05:44 -0500
  ...254,455 > miles on the odometer. Will that engine make one more trip? > > Wave if you see me. > > Dennis > > >
• Re: If it's not broken don't fix it? Odometer & CV joints
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 28 Dec 2001 15:55:31 -0600
  Looking at two things, my odometer which was malfunctioning and my CV joints which are OK but 140,000 miles old. Reply: You don...
• MPG measurement issues
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sat, 1 Apr 2006 07:54:18 -0800
  ...I do this for every vehicle I own and use for long trips. Every Vanagon I have owned was optimistic, some by more than...
• Successful Trip to SNP
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Mon, 15 May 2000 10:58:39 -0400
  I had a successful trip to the Shenandoah National Park over the weekend. The '85 Westy ran well posting good gas mileage (20.9mpg...
• Re: *&^%@#!!!!
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 5 Oct 94 21:44:08 EDT
  ...Until then I rely mainly on the trip odometer, I seem > to get a consistent 360 miles to the tankfull. > > (also my fuel pump...
• Re: Ebay vin# switcharoo?
  Historical mailing list - joel walker
  Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:04:10 -0500
  ...square headlights could have been transplanted, but a watercooled lower grill??? also i don't recall my 80 L model having a trip odometer...
• Stop the presses! +2 MPG (longish trip report)
  Historical mailing list - Stephen Grisanti
  Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:21:49 -0800
  ...the odometer worked for one whole tank, I made a pleasant discovery last week during a trip to the Smokies. With the odometer mysteriously...
• Re: Heads Up Warning on Garmin GPS Map Update
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:55:34 -0700
  ...But there are other features of the GPS I have that I like like the trip odometer screen with speed, estimated arrival time, etc...
• part request -- modification
  Historical mailing list - Sean Bartnik
  Mon, 6 Apr 1998 23:53:23 EDT
  ...search to an instrument cluster from for '80-'85 models, WITH trip odometer. THANKS! :-) -- Sean Bartnik Fredericksburg, Virginia 1981 Volkswagen Vanagon L Westfalia 1974...
• Slow Down And Save Some Gas
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Sat, 4 Feb 2012 10:18:03 -0800
  I returned earlier this week from a long trip, odometer says 3,800+ miles. Driving a '90 Westy with stock engine, automatic tranny, 167...
• Re: Manual window regulator replacement?
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Sun, 11 May 2025 17:01:11 -0700
  ...Maybe someone on the list has bookmarked > something? > > No big trips planned this year other than Fathers Day at Hecla Island on > Lake Winnipeg...
• Re: GPS to check Speedo
  Historical mailing list - Loren A. Busch
  Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:25:17 -0700
  ...calculations easy, time the 5 miles, note the reading on the trip odometer at start and end, and back into a correction. I end...
• Re: Turning 200K
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:01:04 -0600
  When I acquired my 1991 Volkswagen Vanagon GL Campmobile in April 2009 it had 139K miles on the odometer. It now has 159K miles...
• Re: Trip Odometer Myth(?)
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Thu, 17 Apr 2003 23:30:59 -0500
  Nobody would tolerate your shxt if your Daddy didn't own that giant brewery. Join the Un Kappa Fue and relax. Stan Wilder On...
• Re: Intermittent speedometer failure
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:33:54 -0400
  But did your odometer continue to work?? On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Dake Collins <wuwe423@yahoo.com> wrote: > Eric, > Yesterday...
• 1983 Tiico on rvtraderonline.com
  Historical mailing list - Tim Schneider
  Wed, 14 Apr 2004 14:11:17 -0700
  ...Road Trip - California, Oregon, Washington State - June 2000 Yosemite - March & June 2001 Yosemite - March & June 2002 Three week trip through Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Montana...
• Re: Alert for Oregonians-new tax for miles driven?
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Fri, 3 Jan 2003 19:16:28 -0500
  ...Which brings up an interesting question -- how would states coordinate collecting these taxes for interstate trips? With gas taxes it takes care of itself...
• Re: Trip statistics
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:44:31 -0700
  ...odometer failed north of Las Vegas, so the last three entries were >> calculated by GPS/Rand McNally. >> >> Overall, had a safe and enjoyable trip...
• Re: speedo/odo error confusion
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 24 Oct 2001 19:57:29 -0400
  ...The odometer is directly driven. The 185R-14 tire turns approximately 830 revolutions per mile. This is the first source of error. As the...
• Re: odometer just went on the fritz
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 31 Dec 2004 06:33:08 -0600
  ...odometer seems to have spontaneously gone on strike this afternoon. It's >not moving, nor is my trip meter. Zeroing out the trip meter...
• Re: 1981 Westy gas tank capacity
  Historical mailing list - Sean Garrett
  Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:48:44 -0700
  ...Reset your trip odometer. > - Drive a couple hundred miles. > - Fill the tank again, at the same pump if possible. Use the same > procedure. (i...
• Re: Haunted Westy!!!
  Historical mailing list - sheri motsenbocker
  Tue, 6 Jul 1999 22:11:21 -0700
  ...I haven't had this happen yet on my 1982 Westy (odometer and speedometer are non-funtioning currently. However, it's a regular occurance...
• Re: Odometer Repair-Migrating Shaft
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 25 Feb 2001 16:14:00 -0600
  ...The mileage odometer quit turning, but the trip odometer kept working. Upon disassembly of the unit, the teflon gear on the end of the...
• Re: Odo/Trip Counter
  Historical mailing list - Mike S
  Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:43:17 -0400
  ...one van and ~15,000 miles on the other and my >odometers are both still working. Correct. The first thing that happens when you...
• Newbie Alaska trip completed
  Historical mailing list - jrbelknap
  Tue, 31 Jul 2001 18:25:50 -0700
  ...I just completed a 30 day, 9000 mile trip from the SF Bay Area up to Alaska and my 1987 Westy ran flawlessly. When...
• Re: GPS to check Speedo
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Tue, 2 Jul 2002 21:28:40 -0700
  ...calculations easy, time the 5 miles, note the reading on the trip odometer at start and end, and back into a correction. I end...
• Re: Insturment cluster repairing and speedometer repair
  Historical mailing list - Robert Fisher
  Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:20:15 -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: Dash Cluster Needed, '86+
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:09:46 -0700
  ...mentioned the need for an odometer... That's a tricky one. > Although I believe that there are trip computers in some GPS's that...