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Subject:Re: Toasted my engine or transmission?
From:David Beierl
Date:Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:11:10 -0400

At 03:26 PM 9/24/2012, Stuart MacMillan wrote:
>in second as well?  Oh wait, it's the speedo!  I use my GPS for
>speed, my speedo reads over 10% high, and so does yours.  It must be
>a VW false advertising trick since the odo is right on.  My '84 did
>the same thing.

I'm going to guess that your (incomplete vehicle) production date was
before December '84?  See 90.30...customers must have screamed.

Interesting wording in the note at the end of 90.30.  Number printed
on speedo is 100 times number of turns of the shaft in 1/100
mile...did someone quoting from VDO test procedures have a problem
with abstraction?

Yrs,
d