Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:54:08 GMT From: no.spamnopsamway.com (Burt Peterson) Subject: Re: Odometer stopped working
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998 04:08:25 GMT, "John D. Gardner" <jgardnernopsamilot.org> wrote: >Ed, > >I have an '89 900S that had the same problem. My mechanic told me the >plastic gears break, especially with frequent resetting of the trip odometer >(bad design I think!). Occasionally it would work for a while then stop, >usually when the trip odometer rolls through from 999.9 to 000.0. Bad design >#2 - there's no way to disable the trip odometer without disabling the car >odometer. > >Bottom line, about a $500 repair. Couple hundred to the local shop to tear >it out and reinstall it. And $300 to have a VMO repair facility somewhere in >Texas. They can fix the odometer at it's current reading or roll it forward >to an estimated reading, your choice. > Holly Shit did you get taken to the cleaners!!!!!! I have gone through this a few times. There is a little plastic (nylon) gear that fits over a shaft that has a flat spot on it. When you push the trip odometer reset button while you are moving the gear gets held staionary for an instant while the shaft continues to turn. This splits the gear. If the plasict is strong and the rest of the gears in the odo. turn easy it will work when the flat spot on the shaft and the flat spot on the gear line up again. I whill stop working when there is enough load on the gear to slid in off the flat spot. (That is why is won't turn over from 999.9 to 000.0 .. too many numbers to flip over. btw. going from 099.0 to 100.0 is the same number digits) The Free fix is to pull the speedo out and align the gear and the shaft then apply alittle nail polish / super glue. The Saab place that I got most of my parts from had a dish of the gears on the counter and you grabbed on if you needed one. The whole process is not difficult.
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