Sometimes i wander if VDO was part of VW with same "quality" standards
They never recalled their speedo for odometer shaft problem
Leon
86 Syncro
hoping to adapt 1988 Audi 90 instrument cluster

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 03:35:58 EST, George Goff <THX0001@AOL.COM> wrote:

> In a message dated 3/14/05 11:33:39 AM, Don_Dixon@BELLSOUTH.NET writes:
>
> << I wondered if the brake fluid vapor (the cap is vented) is
>
> causing a chemical change in the plastic.  I don't remember seeing the
> same
>
> type of deterioration on the Rabbits and such of the same generation >>
>
> All things are possible until proven otherwise.  But, I have seen
> exactly the
> same failures, broken odometer reset and split pinion, in VDO
> speedometers
> even on cars where the speedometer and master cylinder are isolated by
> one
> another by a firewall.
>
> George
>

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