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November 22, 2004, 08:56:13 pm

desl-lvr

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« on: November 22, 2004, 08:56:13 pm »
WTF is up with diesel Rabbit odometers? :o

I have an 81 Caddy with 107K and an 86 Golf with 881K??? on non-functioning odometers. The speedos work, but not the odometers. And most of the older Rabbits, Jettas etc, on e-bay say something like "mileage not accurate." :(

I checked ebay and found 4 instrument clusters in the last week. 2 said the odos did NOT work, 1 said the odo DID work, and I bought the 4th one because he said it worked, but didn't specifically mention the odometer. Of course it does NOT work. :x

Is there a common failure and/or repair I could do to get these odometers working. I've been driving for 3 weeks on my first tank in the caddy, but have no idea how far I've gone, or what mileage I've been getting. Thanx for your help.
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Reply #1November 23, 2004, 10:57:50 am

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« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2004, 10:57:50 am »
Quote from: "desl-lvr"
WTF is up with diesel Rabbit odometers? :o

 

Is there a common failure and/or repair I could do to get these odometers working?

I found several helpful posts on the http://www.vwdieselparts.com/ forum.  :)

Man, there are a lot of VW diesel forums out there! I'm still finding them!
I'll let you know how the repair goes.
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Reply #2November 23, 2004, 10:58:07 am

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« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2004, 10:58:07 am »
usually its a gear on the trip counter that gets jammed and stops the entire odo.
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Reply #3February 05, 2005, 09:21:28 pm

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« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2005, 09:21:28 pm »
Yeh... just take out the metal pin that is going thru the gear that is cracked, and drill out the gear a little bit.

Using some epoxy, put it back together.... with the gap you created with the drill being enough to glue it on the pin.

I tried it once without doing the drilling, and I had to do it again.
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Reply #4February 25, 2005, 10:05:56 am

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« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2005, 10:05:56 am »
Anyone have a source of a replacement brass gear to replace the fragile plastic one that came OEM in these odometers?
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Reply #5November 01, 2006, 08:00:46 pm

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« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2006, 08:00:46 pm »
There was somewhere online detailed instructions (with cool photos and stuff :wink:  ) on how to do this; I used to have the site bookmarked but alas, can't find it any more! Does anyone know to what I am referring??
I really need to do this fix this Winter while my Rabbit is asleep!  :oops:
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Reply #6November 02, 2006, 03:20:59 pm

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« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2006, 03:20:59 pm »
Scully is this the link you were thinking of?

http://www.4crawler.com/Diesel/CheapTricks/Odometer.shtml

Thank Roger for this extremely informative site ...a lot more info then just odometers. Great resource.
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Reply #7November 02, 2006, 04:19:12 pm

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Reply #8November 02, 2006, 05:37:26 pm

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« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2006, 05:37:26 pm »
The first link is the one I was thinking of, but they are both great!  :D
Thanks!  :wink:
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