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Subject:Re: right sized tires, wrong speed indication
From:David Beierl
Date:Tue, 19 Feb 2002 21:34:47 -0500
At 06:59 PM 2/19/2002, Erik Valeur wrote:
>I thought the bad ground issue only applied to vehicles where the speedo
>cable
>comes from the transmission, i.e. front wheel drive. The vanagon speedo cable
>comes from the front wheel. I can't see how there can be any current flowing
>through the speedo cable on a vanagon?
>
>Erik V.

But Erik, do you want me to go against Bentley? <shock, horror>

Seriously, the warning is on 97.6 -- but in thinking about it I agree with
you, I cannot see how this can happen with the Vanagon.

thanks
david

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