Yes! Those dots are the max speed shift points. For the automatic, ignore
the 1st speed dot. Your 1st lines up with the 2nd speed dot, 2nd goes with
the 3rd.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Rocket J Squirrel
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 8:54 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Red dots on speedo (was some other thread about fuel gauges)

I betcha you're right.

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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
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On 10/20/2009 2:54 PM David Beierl wrote:

> At 05:26 PM 10/20/2009, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>> I'm still trying to suss what the single safety orange dot on the 20 mph
>> tick on the speedometer signifies, what the two safety orange dots on the
>> 40 mph tick signify, and what the three safety orange dots on the 65 mph
>> tick mean. They can't be shift points? Besides, this is an auto tranny
>> version, so the dots are meaningless.
>>
>> So if they decided to print such puzzling marks on the speedo, I would
>> not
>> put it past them to place arbitrary marks on a fuel gauge face.
>
> Hey, Mr. Rocket (?lettuce?) ;-)
>
> "Not understood by me" not-equals "arbitrary."  I rather suspect those
> are approximate redlines for the non-tachometer manual transmission crowd.
>
> Yrs,
> D
>