Re: alfa-digest V7 #1205

["Ric Kasper" <alfaric@domain.elided>]

Had the same issue with my '86 Spider at 98,000 miles.  Odo/Trip quit
working after pushing trip reset...speedometer still worked fine.  (Broken
speedo cable had been replaced at about 85,000 when speedo, odo, and trip
quit in unison.)  I pulled the front of the instrument pod and then the
instrument cluster within, finally removing speedometer unit from cluster.
The mile wheels of the trip odometer reside on a spindle that had slipped
out of one of its two mounting holes when the reset button was pressed.
This, in turn, was jamming up the odometer.  I put the trip spindle back in
place, reassembled all, and it worked great -- until my a few weeks ago when
my brother borrowed the car and promptly pressed the trip reset.  I'm now
stuck at 99,500, and need to repeat the "fix."  I am considering
disabling/removing the reset button to prevent this happening again as the
odometer is much more important to me than the trip meter.

> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 21:23:23 -0500
> From: "Simpson, Jr, Joe B." <jbs@domain.elided>
> Subject: RE: '88 spider- odometer on fritz
>
> PaulS39832@domain.elided wrote:
>
> >With 99,000 approx. miles on my odometer, the unit stopped working.  The
> trip
> >meter also quit.  However, the speedometer seems to work OK.

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